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This video shows the historic Mississippi River flooding crest in downtown Memphis on May 5, 2011 along the I-40 Memphis bridge. This was shot the day of the crest. The levels are the highest of all Mississippi River floods in history — beyond The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, and well beyond the 1993 Mississippi Flood. Despite the flood levees upstream being blown-up by the Army Corps of Engineers, the waters have continued to rise. No real flood damage in Memphis, but the river’s western banks extended into West Memphis, Arkansas shutting down businesses and necessitating evacuation of some residents.
Video by: http://www.memphisphotographyservice.com/
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Memphis Flood May 09, 2011, Memphis, TN, Flood
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage_in_New_Orleans
Drainage in New Orleans, Louisiana has been a major concern since the founding of the city in the early 18th century, remaining an important factor in the history of New Orleans through today. Flooding threatens New Orleans from three sources: the Mississippi River, Lake Pontchartrain, and natural rainfall. Artificial levees have been built to keep out rising river and lake waters but have had the negative effect of keeping rainfall in. New Orleans was originally built on natural levees along the Mississippi River that were a result of soil deposits left from the river’s annual floods. The site chosen for New Orleans had many advantages. Because it sits where distance between the river and Lake Pontchartrain is shortest, Louisiana Indians had long used the area as a depot and market for goods carried between the two waterways. The narrow strip of land also aided rapid troop movements, and the river’s crescent shape slowed ships approaching from downriver and exposed them to gunfire, however flooding was always a hazard. The first artificial levees and canals were built in early colonial times. They were erected to protect New Orleans against routine flooding from the Mississippi River. The ‘back of town’ away from the river originally drained down into the swamps running toward Lake Pontchartrain. Flooding from the lake side was rare and less severe as most of the old town had been built on high ground along the riverfront. As the city grew, demand for more land encouraged expansion into lower areas more prone to periodic flooding. For most of the 19th century most residential buildings were raised up at least a foot above street level (often several feet), since periodic flooding of the streets was a certainty at the time. In the 1830s state engineer George T. Dunbar proposed an ambitious system of underground drainage canals beneath the streets. The goal was to drain water by gravity into the low lying swamps, supplementing this with canals and mechanical pumps. The first of the city’s steam engine powered drainage pumps, adapted from a ship’s paddle wheel and used to push water along the Orleans Canal out to Bayou St. John, was constructed in this decade. However, only a few of Dunbar’s plans were actually implemented as the panic of 1837 largely ended major systematic improvements for a generation. In 1859 surveyor Louis H. Pilié improved the drainage canals, bricking in some portions. Four large steam ‘draining machines’ were built to push water through the canals into the lake. In 1871, some 36 miles (58 km) of canals were built in the city for both improved drainage and small vessel shipping within town. However, despite earlier efforts, at the end of the 19th century it was still common for water to cover streets from curb to curb after rainstorms, sometimes for days. In 1893, the city government formed the Drainage Advisory Board to come up with better solutions to the city’s drainage problems. Extensive topographical maps were made and some of the nation’s top engineers were consulted. In 1899, a bond was floated, and a 2 mill per dollar property tax approved, which funded and founded the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans. The Sewerage & Water Board had the responsibility of draining the city along with constructing a modern sewage and tap water system for the city, which, at the time, still relied heavily on cisterns and outhouses. (A different entity, the Orleans Levee Board, is in charge of supervision of the city’s levee and floodwall system. )The Sewerage & Water Board found A. Baldwin Wood, a young engineer who not only supervised the plans for improved drainage and pumping, but also invented a number of improvements in pumps and plumbing in the process. These improvements were not only used in New Orleans, but adopted all over the world. As the 20th century progressed, much of the land that had previously been swampland or considered fit for no other use than cow pasture (due to periodic flooding), was dr p flooding automobiles Mississippi flood thunder katrina warfare River St. Louis Post-Dispatchflood reef stranded HITS TENNESSEE Missouri evacuation truck drowning crash accident great flood of 2011 flow 17th street canal Rain Diane Sawyer America disaster News missouri rising water cbs Flooding 2011Mississippi nature Arkansas park Riverside Drive custom showoff courier Hernando desoto Bridge flying rafting Update-08-05–2011 floods lightning rising Army Corp of Engineers analysis CNTV st. Thumbs evacuate media mos levee blown snowboard gatehouse early girardeau emergency uranium melt-down fuel-rodshannibal vehicle tributaries cutoff racing levee interviews airplanes Mississippi Rising EngineersMis
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The Mississippi River continues to rise on Mud Island in Memphis, TN on May 7, 2011. Mud Island River Park on the south end of the island is nearly completely covered by the rising river waters. The parking area for riverboat cruises is under several feet of water. This video is shot from the intersection of Monroe Avenue and Riverside Drive in downtown Memphis.
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Monday May 16 2011 10:15 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy
Piracy is a war-like act committed by non-state actors (private parties not affiliated with any government) against parties of a different nationality, or against vessels of their own nationality at sea, and especially acts of robbery and/or criminal violence at sea. People who engage in these acts are called pirates. The term can include acts committed on land, in the air, or in other major bodies of water or on a shore. It does not normally include crimes committed against persons traveling on the same vessel as the perpetrator (e. g. one passenger stealing from others on the same vessel). The term has been used to refer to raids across land borders by non-state agents. Piracy should be distinguished from privateering, which was authorized by their national authorities and therefore a legitimate form of war-like activity by non-state actors. This form of commerce raiding was outlawed by the Peace of Westphalia (1648) for signatories to those treaties. Piracy is one of the offenses against which Congress is delegated power to enact penal legislation by the Constitution of the United States, along with treason and offenses against the law of nations. Treason is generally making war against one’s own countrymen, and violations of the law of nations can include unjust war among other nationals or by governments against their own people. Historically, offenders have usually been apprehended by military personnel and tried by military tribunals. Some argue that the proper term for ‘terrorist’ or ‘unlawful combatant’ should be ‘pirate’. The English ‘pirate’ is derived from the Latin term pirata and that from Greek ‘πειρατής’ (peiratēs), ‘brigand’, in turn from ‘πειράομαι’ (peiráomai), ‘attempt’, from ‘πεῖρα’ (peîra), ‘attempt, experience’. The word is also cognate to peril. Maritime piracy, according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) of 1982, consists of any criminal acts of violence, detention, rape, or depredation committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or aircraft that is directed on the high seas against another ship, aircraft, or against persons or property on board a ship or aircraft. Piracy can also be committed against a ship, aircraft, persons, or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any state, in fact piracy has been the first example of universal jurisdiction. Nevertheless today the international community is facing many problems in bringing pirates to justice. It may be reasonable to assume that piracy has existed for as long as the oceans were plied for commerce. The earliest documented instances of piracy are the exploits of the Sea Peoples who threatened the Aegean and Mediterranean in the 13th century BC. These pirates were known to wield cutlasses, a type of sword common in that era. In Classical Antiquity, the Illyrians and Tyrrhenians were known as pirates, as well as Greeks and Romans. During their voyages the Phoenicians seem to have sometimes resorted to piracy, and specialized in kidnapping boys and girls to be sold as slaves. In the 3rd century BC, pirate attacks on Olympos (city in Anatolia) brought impoverishment. Among some of the most famous ancient pirateering peoples were the Illyrians, populating the western Balkan peninsula. Constantly raiding the Adriatic Sea, the Illyrians caused many conflicts with the Roman Republic. It was not until 168 BC when the Romans finally conquered Illyria, making it a province that ended their threat. During the 1st century BC, there were pirate states along the Anatolian coast, threatening the commerce of the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean. On one voyage across the Aegean Sea in 75 BC, Julius Caesar was kidnapped by Cilician pirates and held prisoner in the Dodecanese islet of Pharmacusa. He maintained an attitude of superiority and good cheer throughout his captivity. When the pirates decided to demand a ransom of twenty talents of gold, Caesar is said to h atherbug Mississippi River Revolution Sri Lanka howto Scalar Technology Giants evacuation forecast sundae of dod Walk desserts peak news US Georgia Guidestones Mississippi uscbsepisode destroying America pentagonFree BROX mississippiabandoned help arc mrskskill UPDATE chernobyl guns architecture Grand-Gulf Nuclear-Power-Plant information caesium water national uranium old Codex Alimentarius open spillway levee New Cairo Liberty iodine youtube Steve Stockton city plutonium travel waitress movie Agenda 21 severe stormsBaton Rouge nuclear-reactors Grassroots homes flooded Acr
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As the Mississippi River continues to rise to near-record cresting, residents in Memphis are paring for the worst. Randall Pinkston reports on the latest of the city’s flood alert.
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As the weather improves here, I don’t want to forget that there are still people out there struggling because of flooding and other weather related issues.
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As the Mississippi River continues to rise to near-record cresting, residents in Memphis are paring for the worst. Randall Pinkston reports on the latest of the city’s flood alert.
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This video shows the historic Mississippi River flooding in downtown Memphis on May 5, 2011 along the I-40 Memphis bridge. This was shot six days before the forecasted crest. The levels are the highest of all Mississippi River floods in history — beyond The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, and well beyond the 1993 Mississippi Flood. Despite the flood levees upstream being blown-up by the Army Corps of Engineers, the waters have continued to rise. No real flood damage in Memphis, but the river’s western banks extended into West Memphis, Arkansas shutting down businesses and necessitating evacuation of some residents.
Video by: http://www.memphisphotographyservice.com/
Also visit: http://www.memphisphotography.org/
Duration : 0:4:57