Divers recover Australia floods victim
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
Police divers have found the body of an eight year-old boy who vanished near Shepparton in the Australian state of Victoria.
Posts Tagged ‘Floods’
Australia flood communities count cost of natural disaster
Friday, January 14th, 2011
Haunted by their memories, residents of Grantham, a town virtually wiped out by Australia's floods, picked their way on Friday through streets where their homes once stood.
Building more dams is no way to prevent flood catastrophe
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
NOW is not the time to panic as we scramble to find ways to help the people affected by the floods. Calling for the building of new dams is, however, not a satisfactory response to a very wet La Nina year.
Fort Worth says gas pipeline may be hindering floodwater drainage
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
Adjacent property in east Fort Worth still has pools of water after last month's floods.
Mimicking fish and tailoring radar to warn of bridge peril
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Floods cut down more bridges than fire, wind, earthquakes, deterioration, overloads and collisions combined, costing lives and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.