Showing posts with label disaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disaster. Show all posts

Video of the Metrodome's roof collapsing




Watch the moment the Metrodome's roof collapsed and snow rushed in. (It's 85 degrees in Los Angeles, by the way.) Via.

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Ghost at the window (link roundup)



Haunting by Alison Scarpulla on sale at Etsy. Via. Thanks for the correction billyjane.

And a few more links:

1. Good summary about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico - - what caused it, why it's so hard to stop, and what's going to be tried:
The problem with the April 20 spill is that it isn't really a spill: It‘s a gush, like an underwater oil volcano. A hot column of oil and gas is spurting into freezing, black waters nearly a mile down, where the pressure nears a ton per inch, impossible for divers to endure. Experts call it a continuous, round-the-clock calamity, unlike a leaking tanker, which might empty in hours or days.
2. Relatedly, disaster girl at the oil spill.

3. Today only, 20% off all Last Exit T-shirts with the code MAY2010.

*Previously: Window phone.

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Intact, collapsed building (link roundup)



Go here for a gallery of photos of a building that fell over in Shanghai, but stayed more or less in one piece. Via.

And a few more links:

1. By Jason Chalker, Feral guinea pigs and Dia de los Hotrods.

2. Nice gallery of photos of the Mickey Mouse/Optimus Prime Transformer.

3. Star Trek rebooted desktop wallpaper featuring Scotty and his little alien buddy.

4. Three Northern California attorneys and two interpreters convicted of filing hundreds of fraudulent asylum applications.

*Previously: Exposing the truth about that collapsed San Francisco bridge.

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Video of the Dallas Cowboys training facility collapsing



Here's video of the roof over the Dallas Cowboys practice field collapsing during a storm. "Cowboys staff photographers were up in the metal framework beneath the canopy to film the practice session and "actually rode the building down with the storm." You can read about it here.

*Previously: Photos of a volcano erupting and being struck by lighting.

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Dungeons and Dragons t-shirt (link roundup)



ACDC/Dungeons and Dragons logo on sale in various colors at Zazzle.

And a few more links:

1. Chocolate-covered, cream-filled dessert called "Mini Dickmann's."

2. Vintage photos of a man being strapped into the electric chair at Sing Sing.

3. Photo of a disturbingly creepy guy at a disaster scene.

4. Funny comic strip about sudden stunningly powerful gusts of wind.

*Previously: Photo of Disaster Girl.

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