And in the same topic, Power of Water, here's video footage from 2008, from a cruise ship, the Pacific Sun, off New Zealand when it encountered huge rogue waves. Watch the face plant against the pillar at ~45 seconds.
My brother, who lives at Noosa Heads, north of Brisbane, sent this photo a little while ago. He lives close to the beach, so he is not seeing as much damage as Brisbane, which is on the river.
Verum audaces non gerunt indusia alba. - Ipsi dixit MCMLXXII
It's quite a long, serious read, but well worth your time.
"The creek then slices though the corner of Queens Park, slides beneath the main city thoroughfare of Hume Street into Chalk Drive, the place where the smashed cars were filmed stacked end to end like a B-grade horror movie set. Here, the entire northern side of the floodplain has been turned into a bitumen car park, while the creek itself is transformed yet again into a narrow canal with trees planted in military formation on either side."
Verum audaces non gerunt indusia alba. - Ipsi dixit MCMLXXII
I thought this one is a good display of the power of water from the Japan tsunami. Shows just how it all starts small but keeps on coming and getting deeper.
If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)
