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Panama Canal closes due to flooding
In only the third time in 96 years, the Panama Canal closed yesterday due to flooding. After being shut down for ten hours it reopened early this morning. Heavy rains around the Chagres River,...
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Record-breaking floods force engineers to blow up Mississippi River levee
Last week we posted that the Ohio River may be too high to allow the running of the Great Steamboat Race on May 4th. The river has just kept rising. Tonight the Army Corps of Engineers will blow...
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New York’s South Street Seaport Museum – the Good and Really, Really Bad News
The area around the South Street Seaport on the East River in lower Manhattan was particularly hard hit by the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy. The rising water reached the first floor eaves,...
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Rotterdam, London, St. Petersburg, and Toyko all have storm surge barriers to protect low-lying areas from flooding. In the United States, Stamford, Connecticut; Providence, Rhode Island; and New...
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Wave Kills Passenger on MS Marco Polo While Valentine’s Day Storm Slams UK
A unusually large wave killed an 85 year old man and injured a woman in her 70s on the cruise ship MS Marco Polo in the English Channel, as it headed for its home port of Tilbury, in Essex. Both were...
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Enough Rain to Float a Battleship
Photo: Doc Searls The recent rain in the Carolinas has been close to unprecedented. Meteorologists have referred to it as the “1,000-year rainfall.” Another way to describe it is that it was “enough...
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USS Batfish Battles Flooding Rivers
USS Batfish is a Balao-class submarine, known primarily for the remarkable feat of sinking three Imperial Japanese Navy submarines in a 76-hour period, in February 1945. Since 1973, USS Batfish has...
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Oyster Apocalypse –Louisiana Oyster Harvest Wiped Out by Flooding
Acme Oyster House has been a New Orleans icon since 1910. My first memory of oysters on the half shell was slurping down a dozen at Acme more than a half-century ago. So, I was alarmed to read that...
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The Moon’s Wobble Likely to Worsen Coastal Flooding
The moon is wobbling. This is nothing new. First observed in 1728, the wobble is a cyclical shifting of the moon’s orbit around the earth that takes 18.6 years to complete. In half of this lunar cycle,...
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