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05-14-2011, 08:39 PM | #1 |
I hear them call the tide
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May 14, 2011: Floodgates Open
My screenshot from the BBC ...I think I'm glad I don't live there.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13401894 That's a huge amount of land that's going to be underwater
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05-15-2011, 05:04 AM | #2 |
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Is it not fascinating and exciting to see water showing coming down some dry creak-bed? Or hear and see a wall of water arrive in a flash flood?
It annoys me that all this predicted flooding is occurring over and over and no one bothers to document the water's actual approach. I think it would be gripping footage to show a huge field, or a school, or town, and this little tongue of water, a harbinger, creeping relentlessly forward to swallow it all. There should be some time-laps shots of this happening too. |
05-15-2011, 10:00 AM | #3 | |
Only looks like a disaster tourist
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I noticed this paragraph:
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They need to teach those reporters some math. |
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05-15-2011, 01:16 PM | #4 |
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The land is surely uneven. Some parts were a foot deep, some parts were a few inches, and who knows which parts they were averaging or discounting... but I don't disagree that the math requirements for a journalism degree are minimal at best.
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05-15-2011, 01:36 PM | #5 |
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I guess that brings up the question of how they determined it was 100 acres and 1 foot deep.
An investigative journalist would have been out there with a Gunter's chain and a theodolite. |
05-15-2011, 02:32 PM | #6 |
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Or they could have been approximating.
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05-15-2011, 11:03 PM | #7 |
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...unless it was Geraldo Rivera, in which case he would have been out there with a cheap Hawaiian shirt and a bad case of hysteria.
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05-16-2011, 05:24 AM | #8 |
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