grace(ful things)

this amazes me.

Jane’s Carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park, made an island.

The National Weather Service reports a record high water level of 13.88 feet was set at the Battery in lower Manhattan at 9:24 pm, breaking the oldest official record of 10.02 feet, set during 1960′s Hurricane Donna.

For reference NYC, this is WTC site (frm. West and Cortlandt St) during Donna in 1960. Forecasted surge is highe

swans swimming in the flooded streets somewhere in England

Dogs take refuge atop a motorcycle next to a flooded street at Don Muang district in Bangkok, Thailand. Authorities in the Thai capital repaired a damaged flood gate that has become the focus of anger, fear and rivalry between arms of government battling the country’s worst floods in decades. (Reuters)

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Toni Schneiders, Flood at Lake Skutari, Yugoslavia, 1971

January 4, 2010 in the valley of the river of Khunza there was a landslide and a river covered this area between Pakistan and China