Check out the other pictures. How can they be like this? Let's ask FEMA... How about real preparation? Text-message warnings, workers setting up elevated platforms, etc.
Showing posts with label europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label europe. Show all posts
Monday, December 01, 2008
Venice Floods: The Difference Between Europe and The US? Look at people smiling through the ordeal
Check out the other pictures. How can they be like this? Let's ask FEMA... How about real preparation? Text-message warnings, workers setting up elevated platforms, etc.
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Monday, May 05, 2008
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Wealth vs Religion: Inverse Correlation
Details here. Turns out although the US is an exception above, things may not be that different. In the USA:
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
German Schilderwald (Sign Forest) Distracts Drivers
For nearly a decade, Germany's 15 million-member ADAC automobile association has been curb-crawling the nation's streets with municipal officials in an effort to persuade them to get rid of as much as half the country's estimated 20 million traffic signs. Many Germans believe the country's signage has become so dense that it's a safety hazard. A recent study concluded that the distracting signs keep drivers from watching the road.
Germans have coined a term for the phenomenon -- Schilderwald, or sign forest. But as the van-load of officials touring Troisdorf for surplus signs discovered on a recent morning, parting with them isn't proving easy.
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