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Enviar a email | Floods! en General | Por Avi Abrams el 26-Jun-2008 |
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"QUANTUM SHOT" #440
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Water, water everywhere
Some pictures are from the recent flooding in the Midwest, others are from the monsoon floods in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh - all are harrowing images, telling a wet, miserable story of people, animals, cars, property vs. the sheer forces of nature. See other installments in our "Extreme Weather" series here.

(artist conceptual image: Jaap Vliegenthart)
This is how Modern Mechanix magazine (Dec, 1935) showed cataclysmic flooding event:

(image credit: modernmechanix)
Nothing on such a global scale yet (though if you believe the news, the North Pole will be without ice this summer, so soon we may have more water than we ever asked for) As for the present situation, lets start with the recent pictures from Mississippi region (worst floods in 15 years) -
Muscatine Flood (check out more pics at Iowa Flood) -

Signage rendered useless, or just redundant:

(Photo by Barry Williams/Getty Images)

(AP Photo/Steve Pope and Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Main Street in La Grange, Missouri -

(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

(image credit: Susan Saulny)

Animals seeking refuge:

(Photos by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)


(Photos by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
You can see the power of high water here (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) -

(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Powerful storms in Pacific Northwest led to serious flooding this winter; this is Chehalis, Washington in December 2007 -

(Photo: Bruce Ely / AP)
Interstate 5 got flooded one meter deep for the whole 5 kilometers:



Havoc in Aberdeen, Washington:

Just like in the past, trains have to try to get through, flood waters or not:


(image credit: Harvesting the River)
Braving the deep:
in a car -

in a kayak -

in a... table -

or you might need one of these portable do-it-yourself submarines:

Now fishes can shop in Walmart, too:

(Photos: Bruce Ely, Ross William Hamilton / The Oregonian; Drew Perine / The News Tribune; Brian Davies / The Register-Guard; Steven M. Herppich, Tony Overman / The Olympian)
Flooding in Asia
This "eating soup" picture has already become a classic:

(image credit: Okuno)

(image credit: QuarkSoup)
What a miserable job... but i would also question the integrity of the rider who asks for such a service -


Notice the look from woman on the right:

Some photos from China: weeks of heavy rain led to a serious flooding there this summer -
(more info)

Remember "The Day after Tomorrow"? Of course, you do.
(warning: possible photoshop)

(image credit: morecoolpictures)
Unexpected LOL-humor in a miserable situation:

See other installments in our "Extreme Weather" series here
- Extreme Hail!
- Dust Storms! and more.
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| Flash Floods | | A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic lowlying areas - washes, rivers and streams - caused by the intense rain fall associated with a thunderstorm, or multiple thunderstorms. This flash flood was filmed in Kellick Creek, 10 miles south west of Merriwa, Upper Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia: Leer nota completa |  | Publicado 29-Nov-2007 por aberron en General Leído 34 veces. Más resultados en  |
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