Down By The River Analysis

The Ark was exposed due to large amounts of rainfall and powerful earthquakes. The wood used to build this enormous boat is dated back 4,800 years, the exact time that the Genesis Flood was said to occur in the Bible. The size is even more proof that the discovered vessel is indeed Noah’s Ark. The boat is 300 cubits long and 50 cubits wide, the exact size the Bible used to describe the Ark. Despite all other theories, the answer to this old question is quite clear. The vessel found on Mount Ararat is the boat that sailed the Earth 4,800 years ago.

These were mainly of two kinds: the tsunami of open-ocean sea wave, generated by large-scale motion of the sea floor; and the local wave, generated by underwater landslides in bays of fiords. The 1964 Alaska tsunami was the second largest ever recorded, again following only the one caused by the 1960 Chile earthquake (4 meters at Sitka). Of the 119 deaths attributable to the effects of the ocean, about one-third were due to the open-ocean tsunami: 4 at Newport Beach, Oregon; 12 at Crescent City, California; and about 21 in Alaska. Local waves claimed at least 82 lives.

It had so much damage that there were 300 people who died from the disaster. The water covered 17 million acres causing 236 million dollars’ worth of damage. It was a strong flood, “it was like facing an angry dark ocean. The wind was fierce enough that that day it tore away roofs, smashed windows, and blew down the smokestack- 130 feet high and 54 inches in diameter- at the giant A.G Wineman & Sons lumber mill”

Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento. This was lightweight riders that changed horses every 10 miles apart. They could make the trip in 10 days. They sprinted through the whole way.

Imagine it’s April 18, 1906, just another day at your work in San francisco. Suddenly the grounds turns to water beneath you and you fall on your back. Your used to the occasional earthquake but this earthquake will ruin your entire life. For this was the biggest earthquake in all of San francisco history. SF Tourism Tips says, “The San Francisco 1906 Earthquake was one of the largest and most significant in Northern California.

In 1905, engineers were working on an irrigation canal wall on the Colorado River when a rush of water burst through and began to fill a nearby basin. For eighteen months after the incident, water flowed freely into the basin eventually filling it to form a lake. Hence, “The Accidental Sea,” or better known as the Salton Sea, was born. Because the Sea has no natural input of water, it is fed mainly by agricultural runoff from the Imperial and Coachella Valley. Furthermore, when the water evaporates, the dissolved salts are left behind causing an increase in salinity of the water (Salton Sea 1997).

Flash flooding in Birmingham, AL: Working Title, replace before turn in. Kathrin Ignelzi Jacksonville State University Abstract According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

“In the BP Oil Spill, more than 200 million gallons of crude oil was pumped into the Gulf of Mexico for a total of 87 days, making it the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.” BP has killed thousands of marine wildlife do to the oil spill. “These guys here certainly will survive for a while. But the ones that can 't swim as fast, they 're called prey.” - Stanley D. Rice, U.S. witness.

1815 Explosion In 1815, Mount Tambora famously erupted, with the explosion being a 7 on the volcanic explosivity index, which easily made it the highest rated eruption since Lake Taupo in 1815. It is estimated that the eruption produced 160 cubic kilometres of magma. It is also estimated that at least 11 000 – 12 000 people died as a result of the actual eruption, while the total death toll is around 71 000, most of whom died from the consequences of the eruption. The magnitude of the 1815 eruption caused the worst famine in the 19th century due to the death of most agriculture and livestock in the northern hemisphere.

Slide 7: Ocean level rising is a huge problem. By 2026, 26 U.S. cities will experience mass floodings. By 2100, 150 million people will have to be relocated inland since their land will be completely submerged. One example of this is Solomon Islands and Kiribati, who will have to relocate their citizens in the near future. We have never had a refugee crisis involving such a large amount of people.

Fracking has changed daily Oklahoman’s lives, from their property to their income. Fracking History In 1907, when the first oil well was drilled, which was before statehood, the abundance of oil seemed to draw everyone to Oklahoma, to make a small fortune in oil. Tulsa, Oklahoma, which was once dubbed the oil capital of the world, has a small structure still dedicated to its oil days, the Golden Driller, pictured below.

Six miles down the river is one of Pennsylvania 's largest petroleum manufacturing plant. The United Refinary Company creates petroleum with the power of the running river. Playing a role of a Terrorist, I would consider this to be not only a logical target, but a devastating one as well. Planning the attack would be as simple as finding means to create a massive bomb. Knowing the Kinzua Dam has a roadway on the top, we can think the most effective bomb would be through the back of a Semi-Truck.

Over the past few months, California has been hit with a slew of storms and now the Oroville Dam is overflowing with water. This would not have been as bad a situation if the emergency spillways were not damaged by erosion; or as the anchorman said “... erosion has opened a hole the almost size of a football field and it’s almost 40 feet deep…”. The towns downstream were evacuated because of the potential for flash flooding for the 75 miles downstream from the dam. Workers then started crushing rocks to reinforce and fix the damaged spillways and to delay the potential of flash flooding. Over 200,000 people were evacuated, highways were filled, and gas pumps were emptied in the panic.

“Why did they all leave?” (Mcbride, Pg225) said James Mcbride. James is the author and character in his memoir “The Color of Water”. He is struggling to find out more background information of where his family came from, but he is soon to realize that in order for him to find out where his family first originated from, he has to find out where they lived and what they did. So he traveled to suffolk of where they lived and finds an old friend.

Biological Analyses of the Portage Canal By Luke Treutel – Graduate Student – The University of Wisconsin-Madison Completed with assistance from the City of Portage and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources 1 INTRODUCTION Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Portage Canal is a significant historic landmark which has played a major role in shaping the City of Portage into what it is today. Completed in 1851, it allowed transit of ships between the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers. It was open to navigation until 1959, and has since changed ownership from the federal government to the State of Wisconsin.