Monday, November 25, 2013

Latest Floods News

Market Street in Brisbane during the 1893 floods
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Image by Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

This photograph is from a black and white 120 format film negative strip featuring four images by PC Poulsen. It depicts a flooded Market Street with the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company building visible on Eagle Street. To the left of it is the roof of a building that also belongs to ‘AUSN’.


This image is of a flooded road leading to a wharf along the flooded Brisbane River. At the end of the road only the roofline of the AUSN building is visible.


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Object number: 00048207


Koreatown water main breaks, floods garage

LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A broken water main was to blame for a flooded underground garage that affected dozens of cars in Koreatown. Firefighters were dispatched to the scene at about 3:30 a.m. The broken 12-inch water main left approximately 30 cars …
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Raw Sewage and Anger Flood Gaza"s Streets as Electricity Runs Low

GAZA CITY — Raw sewage has flooded streets in a southern Gaza City neighborhood in recent days, threatening a health disaster, after a shortage of electricity and cheap diesel fuel from Egypt led the Hamas government to shut down Gaza"s lone power …
Read more on New York Times




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