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A time of catastrophes and polycrisis
We have developed the capacity to do indirect harm by altering conditions necessary for survival. It is a closure of the human climate niche (the conditions that sustain human life).
* Jean-Pierre Dupuy, How to Think About Catastrophe Toward a Theory of Enlightened Doomsaying
https://msupress.org/9781609177065/how-to-think-about-catastrophe/* A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it, George Monbiot
"This shift, on any realistic human scale, would be irreversible. Its speed is likely to outrun our ability to adapt." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/23/catastrophic-climate-event-scientists-atlantic-system-collapse-billionaire-existential-crisis#catastrophes #climate #ethics #polycrisis #AMOC #ClimateBreakdown #CascadingRegimeShifts #ecosystems #HothouseEarth #climate #ExistentialCrises
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https://www.europesays.com/afrique/78195/ Paris en ligne | Polymarket, le casino des guerres et des catastrophes ! #Catastrophes #Guerres #Iran #Kalshi #MojtabaKhamenei #Paris #Polymarket #Tunisie #ukraine
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/15/neoconservatives-turned-against-wars-middle-east-us-military. "There is not even an #apology. The pro-war #ideologues of the 21st century have been wrong about everything, & the cost of their #errors has been measured in #death, #destruction & #chaos: #Iraq, #Afghanistan, #Libya, now #Iran. Instead, those who opposed these #catastrophes were denounced as #extremists, as useful idiots for #tyranny, as apologists for #terror."
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https://www.europesays.com/fr/744523/ cette commune sous le choc après la disparition d’un homme dans les crues #accidents #ActualitéEnContinu #Actualités #Angers #Catastrophes #ChalonnesSurLoire #cholet #FaitsDivers #FR #France #Gendarmerie #Inondations #MaineEtLoire #Météo #News #PaysDeLaLoire #Pompiers #Saumur #SegréEnAnjouBleu #Tempêtes #une
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On 40th Anniversary Of #LiveAid, #BobGeldof Denounces “#Thuggery” Of #Trump, #Vance, #Musk As He Questions Why Charity Has Become “Almost An Embarrassment”
By Max Goldbart
June 30, 2025 1:18am"Bob Geldof didn’t mince words about those in charge across the pond as he celebrated 40 years of Live Aid.
" 'The thuggery of Musk, and Vance and Trump, this confederacy of dunces, these abject #fools,' he said at an event launching a set of BBC Live Aid shows late last week.
"Geldof was bemoaning how rather than upping charity as the world flounders under several generational #catastrophes, the response from the U.S. and others has been to 'cut it off.'
" 'These ketamine-crazed narcissists swing their f**king hedge trimmers around their heads and say, this weekend, we’re feeding #USAID to the wood chipper,' he added of the end of the U.S. Agency for International Development. 'Seriously, the strongest nation on Earth, the most powerful man on the planet, and the richest individual ever seen in the history of our world… cackle, over feeding U.S. help to the weakest, #MostVulnerable people in the world into the wood chipper. Ladies and gentlemen, there is something seriously f**ked about that.' " [Well said!!!]
Read more:
https://deadline.com/2025/06/bob-geldof-denounces-trump-musk-vance-live-aid-turns-40-1236445572/#TrumpSucks #USPol #WorldPol #ClimateCatastrophe #Genocide #Starvation
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Le bilan des inondations éclair au Texas, dans le sud des Etats-Unis, a été relevé à 50 morts par les autorités samedi soir, alors que les recherches se poursuivent pour retrouver plusieurs dizaines d'enfants disparus. ...#ETATS-UNIS #CATASTROPHES #INTEMPERIES #SECURITE #DonaldTrump
Intempéries au Texas : des inondations ravagent l'état, au moins 50 morts et plusieurs dizaines d'enfants disparus (PHOTOS+VIDEOS) -
La compagnie aérienne Air India a affirmé que le Boeing 787 qui s'est crashé à Ahmedabad était "bien entretenu". ...#INDE #AERONAUTIQUE #TRANSPORT #CATASTROPHES
Entretien, expérience des pilotes, moteurs... Air India évoque l'état du Boeing qui s'est crashé en Inde -
Une #étude démontre l’ #accélération #vertigineuse des #catastrophes #climatiques au #Brésil : +460% ( multiplié par 5.6 )
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Comment nos émotions influencent-elles nos réponses aux catastrophes?
▶️ "Si la peur joue un rôle, elle n’est pas le seul moteur des actions des communautés face aux risques climatiques."
Par Gonzalo Lizarralde et ses collègues
https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025/01/28/comment-nos-emotions-influencent-elles-nos-reponses-aux-catastrophes/
#catastrophes #émotions #ethnographie #Cuba #Colombie #Chili #Québec #Canada #UdeM #recherche #enquête #climat #catastrophes #séismes #réchauffementclimatique -
Donc désormais tous les événements graves impliquant la météo sont des "#catastrophes climatiques" du #réchauffement voire #dérèglement climatique". Plus besoin de s'interroger sur quoi que ce soit d'autre. Quand la paresse intellectuelle ("#consensus") décrète comme "#science" l'inutilité de la réflexion, de la confrontation de vues, de l'observation, de l'analyse critique...
Plus besoin de tout ça.
Là, je pense que ces "il suffit de" rejoignent le "quoi qu'il en coûte". -
With #humanitarian #catastrophes unfolding on several continents,
the response of the #wealthy #world has been to 💥demand tighter borders and higher fences.⚠️There is no blockbuster charity single raising money for starving refugees from the civil war raging in Sudan.
🆘And now, the cruel taunts come not just from schoolyard bullies and cranks on the political fringes, but from the lips of a man who stood on the presidential debate stage on Tuesday -- a former president who once again has a coin-flip shot at regaining the most powerful office in the world.And so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by that lowest of moments at the debate,
when Donald Trump repeated a vile, baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were killing and eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio.This allegation appears to stem from viral social media posts and statements at public meetings.
It was picked up by some of the most rancid figures at the #fringe of the #MAGA-verse,
then quickly hopscotched from there to a social media post by Trump’s running mate, JD #Vance,
and finally to the debate stage, sputtered by #Trump himself.There is something particularly #insidious about this claim,
uttered at this time, from that stage.
#Food and #pets are, to use a Freudian term, highly overdetermined #symbols in our political life.They are capable of receiving and holding a multiplicity of very potent meanings, transmitting deep messages about #identity and #belonging.
You can tell how powerful this type of slur is by how quickly and vociferously it has animated so many on the right.
Figures who flirt with the mainstream have eagerly jumped into the fray.
The conservative culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo has offered a $5,000 bounty for anyone who can find proof that a Haitian immigrant had in fact eaten a cat.
It is not hard to imagine how this could quickly escalate into #vigilante #violence against Haitians in America.
On Thursday, city officials in Springfield, most of whom have pushed back against the false allegations, said they had received #bomb #threats, prompting the evacuation of city buildings.
MAGA bigotry is far more #sinister and #dangerous than weird.
And disbelieving laughter could,
I fear, blind us to moments like this, when truly unacceptable lines are crossed -
With #humanitarian #catastrophes unfolding on several continents,
the response of the #wealthy #world has been to 💥demand tighter borders and higher fences.⚠️There is no blockbuster charity single raising money for starving refugees from the civil war raging in Sudan.
🆘And now, the cruel taunts come not just from schoolyard bullies and cranks on the political fringes, but from the lips of a man who stood on the presidential debate stage on Tuesday -- a former president who once again has a coin-flip shot at regaining the most powerful office in the world.And so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by that lowest of moments at the debate,
when Donald Trump repeated a vile, baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were killing and eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio.This allegation appears to stem from viral social media posts and statements at public meetings.
It was picked up by some of the most rancid figures at the #fringe of the #MAGA-verse,
then quickly hopscotched from there to a social media post by Trump’s running mate, JD #Vance,
and finally to the debate stage, sputtered by #Trump himself.There is something particularly #insidious about this claim,
uttered at this time, from that stage.
#Food and #pets are, to use a Freudian term, highly overdetermined #symbols in our political life.They are capable of receiving and holding a multiplicity of very potent meanings, transmitting deep messages about #identity and #belonging.
You can tell how powerful this type of slur is by how quickly and vociferously it has animated so many on the right.
Figures who flirt with the mainstream have eagerly jumped into the fray.
The conservative culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo has offered a $5,000 bounty for anyone who can find proof that a Haitian immigrant had in fact eaten a cat.
It is not hard to imagine how this could quickly escalate into #vigilante #violence against Haitians in America.
On Thursday, city officials in Springfield, most of whom have pushed back against the false allegations, said they had received #bomb #threats, prompting the evacuation of city buildings.
MAGA bigotry is far more #sinister and #dangerous than weird.
And disbelieving laughter could,
I fear, blind us to moments like this, when truly unacceptable lines are crossed -
With #humanitarian #catastrophes unfolding on several continents,
the response of the #wealthy #world has been to 💥demand tighter borders and higher fences.⚠️There is no blockbuster charity single raising money for starving refugees from the civil war raging in Sudan.
🆘And now, the cruel taunts come not just from schoolyard bullies and cranks on the political fringes, but from the lips of a man who stood on the presidential debate stage on Tuesday -- a former president who once again has a coin-flip shot at regaining the most powerful office in the world.And so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by that lowest of moments at the debate,
when Donald Trump repeated a vile, baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were killing and eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio.This allegation appears to stem from viral social media posts and statements at public meetings.
It was picked up by some of the most rancid figures at the #fringe of the #MAGA-verse,
then quickly hopscotched from there to a social media post by Trump’s running mate, JD #Vance,
and finally to the debate stage, sputtered by #Trump himself.There is something particularly #insidious about this claim,
uttered at this time, from that stage.
#Food and #pets are, to use a Freudian term, highly overdetermined #symbols in our political life.They are capable of receiving and holding a multiplicity of very potent meanings, transmitting deep messages about #identity and #belonging.
You can tell how powerful this type of slur is by how quickly and vociferously it has animated so many on the right.
Figures who flirt with the mainstream have eagerly jumped into the fray.
The conservative culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo has offered a $5,000 bounty for anyone who can find proof that a Haitian immigrant had in fact eaten a cat.
It is not hard to imagine how this could quickly escalate into #vigilante #violence against Haitians in America.
On Thursday, city officials in Springfield, most of whom have pushed back against the false allegations, said they had received #bomb #threats, prompting the evacuation of city buildings.
MAGA bigotry is far more #sinister and #dangerous than weird.
And disbelieving laughter could,
I fear, blind us to moments like this, when truly unacceptable lines are crossed -
With #humanitarian #catastrophes unfolding on several continents,
the response of the #wealthy #world has been to 💥demand tighter borders and higher fences.⚠️There is no blockbuster charity single raising money for starving refugees from the civil war raging in Sudan.
🆘And now, the cruel taunts come not just from schoolyard bullies and cranks on the political fringes, but from the lips of a man who stood on the presidential debate stage on Tuesday -- a former president who once again has a coin-flip shot at regaining the most powerful office in the world.And so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by that lowest of moments at the debate,
when Donald Trump repeated a vile, baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were killing and eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio.This allegation appears to stem from viral social media posts and statements at public meetings.
It was picked up by some of the most rancid figures at the #fringe of the #MAGA-verse,
then quickly hopscotched from there to a social media post by Trump’s running mate, JD #Vance,
and finally to the debate stage, sputtered by #Trump himself.There is something particularly #insidious about this claim,
uttered at this time, from that stage.
#Food and #pets are, to use a Freudian term, highly overdetermined #symbols in our political life.They are capable of receiving and holding a multiplicity of very potent meanings, transmitting deep messages about #identity and #belonging.
You can tell how powerful this type of slur is by how quickly and vociferously it has animated so many on the right.
Figures who flirt with the mainstream have eagerly jumped into the fray.
The conservative culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo has offered a $5,000 bounty for anyone who can find proof that a Haitian immigrant had in fact eaten a cat.
It is not hard to imagine how this could quickly escalate into #vigilante #violence against Haitians in America.
On Thursday, city officials in Springfield, most of whom have pushed back against the false allegations, said they had received #bomb #threats, prompting the evacuation of city buildings.
MAGA bigotry is far more #sinister and #dangerous than weird.
And disbelieving laughter could,
I fear, blind us to moments like this, when truly unacceptable lines are crossed -
"Achieving climate equity in Canada: Mobilizing the whole of government" is a new report from #Deloitte Canada about how #marginalized and low-income peoples suffer the impacts of #climate #catastrophes more acutely than others, and how #environmental #racism has prolonged climate #inequities in marginalized communities.
Jason Rasevych says #Indigenous peoples can leverage the report when speaking about climate event #mitigation with #governments and #corporations.
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Igrachka-Plachka
is a #curious slavic #word for #horseplay
which encapsulates the #ambivalence
of rough-and-tumble
A Japanese toy with not dissimiliar instructional #intension
are the #Kamifusen – colorful small glassine-paper balls,
whose principial #way to getting #prim and #puffy is to be given
a good #pummeling
Or so the #MujiMujiks #think #visitors, who upon crossing the #gallery threshold step into a #stormy
scenography of mutiple micro-#catastrophes, #teapot tempest #bursting into #bloom -
Igrachka-Plachka
is a #curious slavic #word for #horseplay
which encapsulates the #ambivalence
of rough-and-tumble
A Japanese toy with not dissimiliar instructional #intension
are the #Kamifusen – colorful small glassine-paper balls,
whose principial #way to getting #prim and #puffy is to be given
a good #pummeling
Or so the #MujiMujiks #think #visitors, who upon crossing the #gallery threshold step into a #stormy
scenography of mutiple micro-#catastrophes, #teapot tempest #bursting into #bloom -
In 2002 I read this book & reflecting back over the events of the last 6 years, I realize they were all manifestations of the same "#CriticalState" #collapse of US led Western hegemony. Trump, Brexit, George Floyd, Covid, Jan. 6th, the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, are all tied together. There are more #Catastrophes ahead as this massive landslide triggers more landslides & realignment into a new "stable" critical state.
#EndOfTheWorld
#ExistentialThreats
https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquity-Catastrophes-Happen-Mark-Buchanan/dp/0609809989/ref=asc_df_0609809989/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312165853622&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1531593830702971316&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=t&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9019546&hvtargid=pla-562876110686&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=60258872297&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312165853622&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1531593830702971316&hvqmt=&hvdev=t&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9019546&hvtargid=pla-562876110686&dplnkId=112d80f9-a7d1-487f-a3bc-1e35e493f7b3 -
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• #Entocycle 🇬🇧 - create sustainable #insect 🐜 protein from organic #waste -
#WomenAndChildren #Catastrophes #Poverty #Crises
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Turns out we left the driver's side car window totally open to the last 14 hours of attractive ye old New England snowfall. And then rain.
After winkling out the patches of snow on seat, floor, armrest with spatula & spoon, I've attacked the upholstery & other surfaces with towels; car heater on high, recirc, A/C; kitty litter; baking soda.
Oh, and rolled up the window.
Guess I was wrong about a wet/dry shop vac being a silly extravagance I'd never need.
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📈#Baromètre2022 Perception des #catastrophes : selon les 🇫🇷, le #nucléaire reste le principal risque #industriel susceptible de provoquer un accident grave ou une #catastrophe dans l’hexagone, un score historiquement bas.
Pour plus de détails ➡️ https://barometre.irsn.fr -
The flood, floods and mythic flood stories 1 Flooding and Water-waves
Two weeks ago we had a bible study in Newburry, Mons and Leefdaal, about The Great Flood and the floods in this world and time system.
Today we are going to look at more than just some floods or water rises which took place on this globe.
We are going to talk about more than ordinary high-water stages in which water overflowed its natural or artificial banks onto normally dry land, such as a river inundating its floodplain.
Gran Chaco floodplain (Encyc. Britannica)Throughout the ages there have always been several floods or periods where water streamed over land or bringing an overflow to fields. In such instances the water submerging the agricultural planes brought wellbeing of man, though inundation did also bring disasters or catastrophes to mankind.
Flooding having become part of man’s life, since his exclusion from the Garden of Eden. It can well be the four streams of the Royal Garden sometimes also had their waters deluged part of lands, but never to bring harm over the living beings. After the fall of man danger of flooding entered the life of human beings. Man also came to know the good of flooding and as such also made use of it, having also controlled floodings.
Recharting rivers caused uncontrolled floodings which caused several people to suffer.
Storms or excessive rainfall over brief periods of time as, for example, the floods of Paris (1658 and 1910), of Warsaw (1861 and 1964), of Frankfurt am Main (1854 and 1930), and of Rome (1530 and 1557) caused considerable damage and where in most cases uncontrollable.
A picture of the 2004 tsunami in Ao Nang, Krabi Province, Thailand.(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Potentially disastrous floods may, however, also result from ice jams during the spring rise, as in the case of the Danube (1342, 1402, 1501, and 1830) and of the Neva (in the Soviet Union, 1824); from storm tides such as those of 1099 and 1953 that flooded the coasts of England, Belgium, and The Netherlands; and from tsunamis or water waves, the mountainous sea waves caused by earthquakes, as in Lisbon, Portugal in 7000–6000 BCE, 60 BCE, 1531 CE and in 1755, the Storegga Slide ≈6225–6170 BCE. For the Common Era the earliest recorded tsunami was during the Persian siege of the sea town Potidaea, Greece. The Greek historian Herodotus reports how the Persian attackers who tried to exploit an unusual retreat of the water were suddenly surprised by “a great flood-tide, higher, as the people of the place say, than any one of the many that had been before”. Herodotus attributes the cause of the sudden flood to the wrath of Poseidon. The Greek historian Thucydides (3.89.1–6) also describes how a tsunami and a series of earthquakes affected the raging Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE) and, for the first time in the history of natural science, associated quakes with waves in terms of cause and effect. Hawaii (Hilo, 1946),the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, killing 230,000–280,000 people in 14 countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 metres (100 ft) high being one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. Indonesia was the hardest-hit country, followed by Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand. The 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, bringing damage to American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga (Niuatoputapu) where more than 189 people were killed, especially children, most of them in Samoa. The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami with the most powerful earthquake ever recorded to have hit Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900. Japan really had already a big portion of tsunamis, being hit in 684 CE (Hakuhō Nankai earthquake), 869 (Jogan Sanriku earthquake), 887 (Ninna Nankai earthquake), 1293 (Kamakura earthquake), 1361 (Shōhei Nankai earthquake), 1498 (Nankai earthquake), 1605 (Nankai earthquake), 1707 (Hōei earthquake), 1741 western side of Oshima Peninsula, Ezo (Hokkaido) hit by a tsunami associated with the eruption of the volcano on Oshima Ōshima island, 1771 (Great Yaeyama Tsunami), 1792 (Unzen earthquake and tsunami), 1854 Ansei great earthquakes with 80,000–100,000 deaths, 1855 Edo (Tokyo) region Ansei Edo earthquake, 1896 Sanriku earthquake also hit in 2005, 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, 1933 Sanriku earthquake, 1944 Tōnankai earthquake, 1946 Nankai earthquake, 1964 Niigata earthquake, 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake, 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
Marina Beach i Chennai efter den första tsunami vågen den 26 december 2004. Fotograferad av Henryk Kotowski. GFDL (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Floods can be measured for height, peak discharge, area inundated, and volume of flow. These factors are important to judicious land use, construction of bridges and dams, and prediction and control of floods.
The floods of an individual stream are often highly variable from month to month and year to year. A particularly striking example of this variability is the flash flood, a sudden, unexpected torrent of muddy and turbulent water rushing down a canyon or gulch. It is uncommon, of relatively brief duration, and generally the result of summer thunderstorms in mountains. A flash flood can take place in a single tributary while the rest of the drainage basin remains dry. The suddenness of its occurrence causes a flash flood to be extremely dangerous.
A village near the coast of Sumatra lies in ruin on January 2, 2005 after the devastating Tsunami that struck on Boxing Day 2004 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)A flood of such magnitude that it might be expected to occur only once in 100 years is called a 100-year flood. The magnitudes of 100-, 500-, and 1,000-year floods are calculated by extrapolating existing records of stream flow, and the results are used in the design engineering of many water resources projects, including dams and reservoirs, and other structures that may be affected by catastrophic floods.
A landslide of 120,000,000 tonnes of rock, much of which displaced water from Lake Lauerz causing a tsunami that flooded lake side villages and resulted in the confirmed death of 457 people at the 1806 Goldau landslide.
The powerful typhoon Emma (1956), one of several typhoons to cause significant damage to Okinawa during the mid-1950s, brought 140 mph (230 km/h) winds and 22 inches (560 mm) of rain to Okinawa (then US territory of the Ryukyu Islands) and South Korea.
Snake Gorge, also called Wadi Bimah, a gorge or wadi in the Ad Dakhiliyah Region of Oma, presented also its water rising bringing people in danger (1996, 2006, 2014).
Flood radar for May 2004 Caribbean floods (Photo credit: Wikipedia)+
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To be continued with: The flood, floods and mythic flood stories 2 Mythic theme 1 God or gods warning
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Additional reading
- Certainty in a troubled world
- Reacting to Disasters
- Weekly World Watch 24th – 30th Oct 2010
- Syrian capital facing total destruction in the coming months
- Newsweek asks: How ignorant are you?
- We are ourselves responsible
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The flood, floods and mythic flood stories 1 Flooding and Water-waves
Two weeks ago we had a bible study in Newburry, Mons and Leefdaal, about The Great Flood and the floods in this world and time system.
Today we are going to look at more than just some floods or water rises which took place on this globe.
We are going to talk about more than ordinary high-water stages in which water overflowed its natural or artificial banks onto normally dry land, such as a river inundating its floodplain.
Gran Chaco floodplain (Encyc. Britannica)Throughout the ages there have always been several floods or periods where water streamed over land or bringing an overflow to fields. In such instances the water submerging the agricultural planes brought wellbeing of man, though inundation did also bring disasters or catastrophes to mankind.
Flooding having become part of man’s life, since his exclusion from the Garden of Eden. It can well be the four streams of the Royal Garden sometimes also had their waters deluged part of lands, but never to bring harm over the living beings. After the fall of man danger of flooding entered the life of human beings. Man also came to know the good of flooding and as such also made use of it, having also controlled floodings.
Recharting rivers caused uncontrolled floodings which caused several people to suffer.
Storms or excessive rainfall over brief periods of time as, for example, the floods of Paris (1658 and 1910), of Warsaw (1861 and 1964), of Frankfurt am Main (1854 and 1930), and of Rome (1530 and 1557) caused considerable damage and where in most cases uncontrollable.
A picture of the 2004 tsunami in Ao Nang, Krabi Province, Thailand.(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Potentially disastrous floods may, however, also result from ice jams during the spring rise, as in the case of the Danube (1342, 1402, 1501, and 1830) and of the Neva (in the Soviet Union, 1824); from storm tides such as those of 1099 and 1953 that flooded the coasts of England, Belgium, and The Netherlands; and from tsunamis or water waves, the mountainous sea waves caused by earthquakes, as in Lisbon, Portugal in 7000–6000 BCE, 60 BCE, 1531 CE and in 1755, the Storegga Slide ≈6225–6170 BCE. For the Common Era the earliest recorded tsunami was during the Persian siege of the sea town Potidaea, Greece. The Greek historian Herodotus reports how the Persian attackers who tried to exploit an unusual retreat of the water were suddenly surprised by “a great flood-tide, higher, as the people of the place say, than any one of the many that had been before”. Herodotus attributes the cause of the sudden flood to the wrath of Poseidon. The Greek historian Thucydides (3.89.1–6) also describes how a tsunami and a series of earthquakes affected the raging Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE) and, for the first time in the history of natural science, associated quakes with waves in terms of cause and effect. Hawaii (Hilo, 1946),the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, killing 230,000–280,000 people in 14 countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 metres (100 ft) high being one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. Indonesia was the hardest-hit country, followed by Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand. The 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, bringing damage to American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga (Niuatoputapu) where more than 189 people were killed, especially children, most of them in Samoa. The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami with the most powerful earthquake ever recorded to have hit Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900. Japan really had already a big portion of tsunamis, being hit in 684 CE (Hakuhō Nankai earthquake), 869 (Jogan Sanriku earthquake), 887 (Ninna Nankai earthquake), 1293 (Kamakura earthquake), 1361 (Shōhei Nankai earthquake), 1498 (Nankai earthquake), 1605 (Nankai earthquake), 1707 (Hōei earthquake), 1741 western side of Oshima Peninsula, Ezo (Hokkaido) hit by a tsunami associated with the eruption of the volcano on Oshima Ōshima island, 1771 (Great Yaeyama Tsunami), 1792 (Unzen earthquake and tsunami), 1854 Ansei great earthquakes with 80,000–100,000 deaths, 1855 Edo (Tokyo) region Ansei Edo earthquake, 1896 Sanriku earthquake also hit in 2005, 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, 1933 Sanriku earthquake, 1944 Tōnankai earthquake, 1946 Nankai earthquake, 1964 Niigata earthquake, 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake, 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
Marina Beach i Chennai efter den första tsunami vågen den 26 december 2004. Fotograferad av Henryk Kotowski. GFDL (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Floods can be measured for height, peak discharge, area inundated, and volume of flow. These factors are important to judicious land use, construction of bridges and dams, and prediction and control of floods.
The floods of an individual stream are often highly variable from month to month and year to year. A particularly striking example of this variability is the flash flood, a sudden, unexpected torrent of muddy and turbulent water rushing down a canyon or gulch. It is uncommon, of relatively brief duration, and generally the result of summer thunderstorms in mountains. A flash flood can take place in a single tributary while the rest of the drainage basin remains dry. The suddenness of its occurrence causes a flash flood to be extremely dangerous.
A village near the coast of Sumatra lies in ruin on January 2, 2005 after the devastating Tsunami that struck on Boxing Day 2004 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)A flood of such magnitude that it might be expected to occur only once in 100 years is called a 100-year flood. The magnitudes of 100-, 500-, and 1,000-year floods are calculated by extrapolating existing records of stream flow, and the results are used in the design engineering of many water resources projects, including dams and reservoirs, and other structures that may be affected by catastrophic floods.
A landslide of 120,000,000 tonnes of rock, much of which displaced water from Lake Lauerz causing a tsunami that flooded lake side villages and resulted in the confirmed death of 457 people at the 1806 Goldau landslide.
The powerful typhoon Emma (1956), one of several typhoons to cause significant damage to Okinawa during the mid-1950s, brought 140 mph (230 km/h) winds and 22 inches (560 mm) of rain to Okinawa (then US territory of the Ryukyu Islands) and South Korea.
Snake Gorge, also called Wadi Bimah, a gorge or wadi in the Ad Dakhiliyah Region of Oma, presented also its water rising bringing people in danger (1996, 2006, 2014).
Flood radar for May 2004 Caribbean floods (Photo credit: Wikipedia)+
Preceding:
To be continued with: The flood, floods and mythic flood stories 2 Mythic theme 1 God or gods warning
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Additional reading
- Certainty in a troubled world
- Reacting to Disasters
- Weekly World Watch 24th – 30th Oct 2010
- Syrian capital facing total destruction in the coming months
- Newsweek asks: How ignorant are you?
- We are ourselves responsible
+++
Related articles
Rate this:
#AdDakhiliyahRegionOfOma #AncientGreece #Belgium #Catastrophes #Earthquake #England #FlashFlood #Flooding #Floodplain #FloodsOrWaterRises #France #GardenOfEden #Germany #GoldauLandslide #Greece #Herodotus #IceJamsOrIceDams #India #IndianOceanEarthquake #Inundation #Italy #Japan #Landslide #Nankai #Netherlands #Okinawa #PeloponnesianWar #PersianEmpire #Portugal #Poseidon #Rainfall #RechartingRivers #RoyalGarden #RyukyuIslands #Samoa #SouthKorea #SovietUnion #SriLanka #Storms #Thailand #Thucydides #TongaNiuatoputapu_ #Tsunami #TyphoonEmma1956_ #Water
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The flood, floods and mythic flood stories 1 Flooding and Water-waves
Two weeks ago we had a bible study in Newburry, Mons and Leefdaal, about The Great Flood and the floods in this world and time system.
Today we are going to look at more than just some floods or water rises which took place on this globe.
We are going to talk about more than ordinary high-water stages in which water overflowed its natural or artificial banks onto normally dry land, such as a river inundating its floodplain.
Gran Chaco floodplain (Encyc. Britannica)Throughout the ages there have always been several floods or periods where water streamed over land or bringing an overflow to fields. In such instances the water submerging the agricultural planes brought wellbeing of man, though inundation did also bring disasters or catastrophes to mankind.
Flooding having become part of man’s life, since his exclusion from the Garden of Eden. It can well be the four streams of the Royal Garden sometimes also had their waters deluged part of lands, but never to bring harm over the living beings. After the fall of man danger of flooding entered the life of human beings. Man also came to know the good of flooding and as such also made use of it, having also controlled floodings.
Recharting rivers caused uncontrolled floodings which caused several people to suffer.
Storms or excessive rainfall over brief periods of time as, for example, the floods of Paris (1658 and 1910), of Warsaw (1861 and 1964), of Frankfurt am Main (1854 and 1930), and of Rome (1530 and 1557) caused considerable damage and where in most cases uncontrollable.
A picture of the 2004 tsunami in Ao Nang, Krabi Province, Thailand.(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Potentially disastrous floods may, however, also result from ice jams during the spring rise, as in the case of the Danube (1342, 1402, 1501, and 1830) and of the Neva (in the Soviet Union, 1824); from storm tides such as those of 1099 and 1953 that flooded the coasts of England, Belgium, and The Netherlands; and from tsunamis or water waves, the mountainous sea waves caused by earthquakes, as in Lisbon, Portugal in 7000–6000 BCE, 60 BCE, 1531 CE and in 1755, the Storegga Slide ≈6225–6170 BCE. For the Common Era the earliest recorded tsunami was during the Persian siege of the sea town Potidaea, Greece. The Greek historian Herodotus reports how the Persian attackers who tried to exploit an unusual retreat of the water were suddenly surprised by “a great flood-tide, higher, as the people of the place say, than any one of the many that had been before”. Herodotus attributes the cause of the sudden flood to the wrath of Poseidon. The Greek historian Thucydides (3.89.1–6) also describes how a tsunami and a series of earthquakes affected the raging Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE) and, for the first time in the history of natural science, associated quakes with waves in terms of cause and effect. Hawaii (Hilo, 1946),the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, killing 230,000–280,000 people in 14 countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 metres (100 ft) high being one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. Indonesia was the hardest-hit country, followed by Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand. The 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, bringing damage to American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga (Niuatoputapu) where more than 189 people were killed, especially children, most of them in Samoa. The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami with the most powerful earthquake ever recorded to have hit Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900. Japan really had already a big portion of tsunamis, being hit in 684 CE (Hakuhō Nankai earthquake), 869 (Jogan Sanriku earthquake), 887 (Ninna Nankai earthquake), 1293 (Kamakura earthquake), 1361 (Shōhei Nankai earthquake), 1498 (Nankai earthquake), 1605 (Nankai earthquake), 1707 (Hōei earthquake), 1741 western side of Oshima Peninsula, Ezo (Hokkaido) hit by a tsunami associated with the eruption of the volcano on Oshima Ōshima island, 1771 (Great Yaeyama Tsunami), 1792 (Unzen earthquake and tsunami), 1854 Ansei great earthquakes with 80,000–100,000 deaths, 1855 Edo (Tokyo) region Ansei Edo earthquake, 1896 Sanriku earthquake also hit in 2005, 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, 1933 Sanriku earthquake, 1944 Tōnankai earthquake, 1946 Nankai earthquake, 1964 Niigata earthquake, 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake, 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
Marina Beach i Chennai efter den första tsunami vågen den 26 december 2004. Fotograferad av Henryk Kotowski. GFDL (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Floods can be measured for height, peak discharge, area inundated, and volume of flow. These factors are important to judicious land use, construction of bridges and dams, and prediction and control of floods.
The floods of an individual stream are often highly variable from month to month and year to year. A particularly striking example of this variability is the flash flood, a sudden, unexpected torrent of muddy and turbulent water rushing down a canyon or gulch. It is uncommon, of relatively brief duration, and generally the result of summer thunderstorms in mountains. A flash flood can take place in a single tributary while the rest of the drainage basin remains dry. The suddenness of its occurrence causes a flash flood to be extremely dangerous.
A village near the coast of Sumatra lies in ruin on January 2, 2005 after the devastating Tsunami that struck on Boxing Day 2004 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)A flood of such magnitude that it might be expected to occur only once in 100 years is called a 100-year flood. The magnitudes of 100-, 500-, and 1,000-year floods are calculated by extrapolating existing records of stream flow, and the results are used in the design engineering of many water resources projects, including dams and reservoirs, and other structures that may be affected by catastrophic floods.
A landslide of 120,000,000 tonnes of rock, much of which displaced water from Lake Lauerz causing a tsunami that flooded lake side villages and resulted in the confirmed death of 457 people at the 1806 Goldau landslide.
The powerful typhoon Emma (1956), one of several typhoons to cause significant damage to Okinawa during the mid-1950s, brought 140 mph (230 km/h) winds and 22 inches (560 mm) of rain to Okinawa (then US territory of the Ryukyu Islands) and South Korea.
Snake Gorge, also called Wadi Bimah, a gorge or wadi in the Ad Dakhiliyah Region of Oma, presented also its water rising bringing people in danger (1996, 2006, 2014).
Flood radar for May 2004 Caribbean floods (Photo credit: Wikipedia)+
Preceding:
To be continued with: The flood, floods and mythic flood stories 2 Mythic theme 1 God or gods warning
++
Additional reading
- Certainty in a troubled world
- Reacting to Disasters
- Weekly World Watch 24th – 30th Oct 2010
- Syrian capital facing total destruction in the coming months
- Newsweek asks: How ignorant are you?
- We are ourselves responsible
+++
Related articles
Rate this:
#AdDakhiliyahRegionOfOma #AncientGreece #Belgium #Catastrophes #Earthquake #England #FlashFlood #Flooding #Floodplain #FloodsOrWaterRises #France #GardenOfEden #Germany #GoldauLandslide #Greece #Herodotus #IceJamsOrIceDams #India #IndianOceanEarthquake #Inundation #Italy #Japan #Landslide #Nankai #Netherlands #Okinawa #PeloponnesianWar #PersianEmpire #Portugal #Poseidon #Rainfall #RechartingRivers #RoyalGarden #RyukyuIslands #Samoa #SouthKorea #SovietUnion #SriLanka #Storms #Thailand #Thucydides #TongaNiuatoputapu_ #Tsunami #TyphoonEmma1956_ #Water
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The flood, floods and mythic flood stories 1 Flooding and Water-waves
Two weeks ago we had a bible study in Newburry, Mons and Leefdaal, about The Great Flood and the floods in this world and time system.
Today we are going to look at more than just some floods or water rises which took place on this globe.
We are going to talk about more than ordinary high-water stages in which water overflowed its natural or artificial banks onto normally dry land, such as a river inundating its floodplain.
Gran Chaco floodplain (Encyc. Britannica)Throughout the ages there have always been several floods or periods where water streamed over land or bringing an overflow to fields. In such instances the water submerging the agricultural planes brought wellbeing of man, though inundation did also bring disasters or catastrophes to mankind.
Flooding having become part of man’s life, since his exclusion from the Garden of Eden. It can well be the four streams of the Royal Garden sometimes also had their waters deluged part of lands, but never to bring harm over the living beings. After the fall of man danger of flooding entered the life of human beings. Man also came to know the good of flooding and as such also made use of it, having also controlled floodings.
Recharting rivers caused uncontrolled floodings which caused several people to suffer.
Storms or excessive rainfall over brief periods of time as, for example, the floods of Paris (1658 and 1910), of Warsaw (1861 and 1964), of Frankfurt am Main (1854 and 1930), and of Rome (1530 and 1557) caused considerable damage and where in most cases uncontrollable.
A picture of the 2004 tsunami in Ao Nang, Krabi Province, Thailand.(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Potentially disastrous floods may, however, also result from ice jams during the spring rise, as in the case of the Danube (1342, 1402, 1501, and 1830) and of the Neva (in the Soviet Union, 1824); from storm tides such as those of 1099 and 1953 that flooded the coasts of England, Belgium, and The Netherlands; and from tsunamis or water waves, the mountainous sea waves caused by earthquakes, as in Lisbon, Portugal in 7000–6000 BCE, 60 BCE, 1531 CE and in 1755, the Storegga Slide ≈6225–6170 BCE. For the Common Era the earliest recorded tsunami was during the Persian siege of the sea town Potidaea, Greece. The Greek historian Herodotus reports how the Persian attackers who tried to exploit an unusual retreat of the water were suddenly surprised by “a great flood-tide, higher, as the people of the place say, than any one of the many that had been before”. Herodotus attributes the cause of the sudden flood to the wrath of Poseidon. The Greek historian Thucydides (3.89.1–6) also describes how a tsunami and a series of earthquakes affected the raging Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE) and, for the first time in the history of natural science, associated quakes with waves in terms of cause and effect. Hawaii (Hilo, 1946),the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, killing 230,000–280,000 people in 14 countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 metres (100 ft) high being one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. Indonesia was the hardest-hit country, followed by Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand. The 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, bringing damage to American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga (Niuatoputapu) where more than 189 people were killed, especially children, most of them in Samoa. The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami with the most powerful earthquake ever recorded to have hit Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900. Japan really had already a big portion of tsunamis, being hit in 684 CE (Hakuhō Nankai earthquake), 869 (Jogan Sanriku earthquake), 887 (Ninna Nankai earthquake), 1293 (Kamakura earthquake), 1361 (Shōhei Nankai earthquake), 1498 (Nankai earthquake), 1605 (Nankai earthquake), 1707 (Hōei earthquake), 1741 western side of Oshima Peninsula, Ezo (Hokkaido) hit by a tsunami associated with the eruption of the volcano on Oshima Ōshima island, 1771 (Great Yaeyama Tsunami), 1792 (Unzen earthquake and tsunami), 1854 Ansei great earthquakes with 80,000–100,000 deaths, 1855 Edo (Tokyo) region Ansei Edo earthquake, 1896 Sanriku earthquake also hit in 2005, 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, 1933 Sanriku earthquake, 1944 Tōnankai earthquake, 1946 Nankai earthquake, 1964 Niigata earthquake, 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake, 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
Marina Beach i Chennai efter den första tsunami vågen den 26 december 2004. Fotograferad av Henryk Kotowski. GFDL (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Floods can be measured for height, peak discharge, area inundated, and volume of flow. These factors are important to judicious land use, construction of bridges and dams, and prediction and control of floods.
The floods of an individual stream are often highly variable from month to month and year to year. A particularly striking example of this variability is the flash flood, a sudden, unexpected torrent of muddy and turbulent water rushing down a canyon or gulch. It is uncommon, of relatively brief duration, and generally the result of summer thunderstorms in mountains. A flash flood can take place in a single tributary while the rest of the drainage basin remains dry. The suddenness of its occurrence causes a flash flood to be extremely dangerous.
A village near the coast of Sumatra lies in ruin on January 2, 2005 after the devastating Tsunami that struck on Boxing Day 2004 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)A flood of such magnitude that it might be expected to occur only once in 100 years is called a 100-year flood. The magnitudes of 100-, 500-, and 1,000-year floods are calculated by extrapolating existing records of stream flow, and the results are used in the design engineering of many water resources projects, including dams and reservoirs, and other structures that may be affected by catastrophic floods.
A landslide of 120,000,000 tonnes of rock, much of which displaced water from Lake Lauerz causing a tsunami that flooded lake side villages and resulted in the confirmed death of 457 people at the 1806 Goldau landslide.
The powerful typhoon Emma (1956), one of several typhoons to cause significant damage to Okinawa during the mid-1950s, brought 140 mph (230 km/h) winds and 22 inches (560 mm) of rain to Okinawa (then US territory of the Ryukyu Islands) and South Korea.
Snake Gorge, also called Wadi Bimah, a gorge or wadi in the Ad Dakhiliyah Region of Oma, presented also its water rising bringing people in danger (1996, 2006, 2014).
Flood radar for May 2004 Caribbean floods (Photo credit: Wikipedia)+
Preceding:
To be continued with: The flood, floods and mythic flood stories 2 Mythic theme 1 God or gods warning
++
Additional reading
- Certainty in a troubled world
- Reacting to Disasters
- Weekly World Watch 24th – 30th Oct 2010
- Syrian capital facing total destruction in the coming months
- Newsweek asks: How ignorant are you?
- We are ourselves responsible
+++
Related articles
Rate this:
#AdDakhiliyahRegionOfOma #AncientGreece #Belgium #Catastrophes #Earthquake #England #FlashFlood #Flooding #Floodplain #FloodsOrWaterRises #France #GardenOfEden #Germany #GoldauLandslide #Greece #Herodotus #IceJamsOrIceDams #India #IndianOceanEarthquake #Inundation #Italy #Japan #Landslide #Nankai #Netherlands #Okinawa #PeloponnesianWar #PersianEmpire #Portugal #Poseidon #Rainfall #RechartingRivers #RoyalGarden #RyukyuIslands #Samoa #SouthKorea #SovietUnion #SriLanka #Storms #Thailand #Thucydides #TongaNiuatoputapu_ #Tsunami #TyphoonEmma1956_ #Water
