A1A Flooding Along Fort Lauderdale Beach 2012
October 28, 2012. The ocean has washed an entire section of Fort Lauderdale beach onto State Road A1A. For updated photos of this event, visit design215.com For those of you unfamiliar with the area, the signs indicate where parking spaces used to be. There was a low retaining wall to keep the wind from blowing sand into the road, a sidewalk, a bicycle lane, and four lanes of traffic. This has all been buried by the sand from beach. The ocean now occupies the place where the beach used to be. Apparently this is happening due to a combination of Hurricane Sandy passing nearby, unusually high tides, and a full moon. Bulldozers were here earlier, piling up the sand in an effort to clear a portion of the road and prevent further flooding. The damage to the beach appears to be limited to this residential area, north of Sunrise Blvd. Tourists can still enjoy a nice wide beach, south of Sunrise Blvd. Please subscribe to this channel and also visit: design215.com facebook.comFrom:Robert GiordanoViews:3 2ratingsTime:01:48More inTravel Events

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backyard drilling, Friday Nov 23, 2012, 21 Bishop Lane, Menlo Park, CA
San Francisquito Creek (flowing downstream) is on the right of the frame, then the video pans up along the retaining wall and eventually focuses on the drill rig that is boring a hole inches away from the edge of the retaining wall. The camera also focuses on the upstream corner of the retaining wall where blocks have been placed. Will they hold or will they slide down into the creek? Only time or a rainstorm will tell.From:alicia inswaViews:0 0ratingsTime:01:29More inNews Politics

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Mezger Enterprises--Cut Limestone using a CNC machine!
Mezger Cut stone operations using their state of the art CNC machine to cut out wall caps specified for a large retaining wall.From:Clinton HartViews:0 0ratingsTime:02:26More inEducation

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Tirewall Machines Update
Tirewall Corporation is a construction company that uses our patented machines to build structures with scrap tires rammed full of earth. If you are thinking about using tires to build a home, retaining wall, breakwater or scrap tire reef then please visit tirewall.com. Developers, general contractors and owner/builders can rely on Tirewall Corp as a subcontractor to build the tire wall portion of your next home. And, best of all, Tirewall can build it at an affordable price. Global warming is causing sea levels to rise and waves will soon pass over reefs that use to prevent shoreline erosion. New manmade reefs will need to be built to protect shorelines from erosion and Tirewall has the solution. Tirewall can turn tires into boulders that won #39;t be moved by currents and make a scrap tire reef that will break up the powerful waves before they can reach the shore. Other artificial reefs are made from expensive materials and are not as environmentally friendly as a Tirewall reef. One advantage to Tirewall reefs is that they can be built with scrap tire and local soils that are not transported long distances, which will reduce the environmental damage from emissions. http://www.tirewall.comFrom:TirewallCorpViews:0 1ratingsTime:07:35More inHowto Style

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Goodbye Gottschalks Hello Target
This is Coddingtown Mall. This video is shot a year after my Coddingtown 2011 Slideshow/Video. Coddingtown is demolishing the Gottschalks department store and then will build a new Target store in its place. The parts of the demolition that I was fascinated the most, was the punched hole on one side of the store sign and the hanging roof. At this point in time, the store is only halfway demolished. Inside Coddingtown are the usual holiday decorations but as I #39;m walking through the mall, on my right is a long retaining wall. The interior of the mall is in the shape of a cross. With the long retaining wall in place, the whole back corridor is completely blocked off. To see what the back corridor looked like, watch the Coddingtown 2011 video where you will also see that the entrance to Gottschalks is open. In this video, there is a sign on the retaining wall called Coddingtown Trivia. See if 1). You can spot the sign in the video. 2). Answer the Trivia Question. Leave your answer in the comments below. Thanks For Watching Coddingtown 2011 http://www.youtube.comFrom:jsmurdViews:0 2ratingsTime:05:43More inEntertainment

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November 27, 2012 01:36 AM

Welfare Home's Retaining Wall Damaged Due To Mud Slide After Heavy Rain

HULU LANGAT, Nov 27 (Bernama) -- Inmates at the Rumah Kebajikan Pertubuhan Kebajikan Darul Islah Malaysia (Perkid) panicked when a mud slide damaged the retaining wall of the welfare home during a heavy rain at 3.30pm Monday.

Perkid President Masridzi Sat said his wife informed him that during the incident at the women's hostel, four inmates were in the kitchen when they heard a loud noise.

"Upon going out to investigate the reason for the loud noise, they found the wall had tilted and cracked while the kitchen was flooded by mud," he told reporters when met here.

The cracks that appeared on the wall could be due to construction work carried out along the monsoon drain nearby, he said.

"The contractor carrying out construction work had placed the raw material near the welfare home's wall. During heavy rain, the wall could not withstand the heavy load, causing cracks on the wall," he said.

Meanwhile, Selangor Fire and Rescue Department assistant director Mohd Sani Harul said the mud slide and cracked wall did not affect the structure of the building.

-- BERNAMA

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QI Season 10 EP 10 - Part 3/3
http://www.moxitube.com Extra tags: QI Season 10 EP 10 - Part 3/3 QI Season 10 Episode 10 Full Episode QI Season 10 EP 10 Promo QI S10E10 QI (10x10) QI QI General health elements tend to be indicators that the company you have chosen is usually effective in regards to assembly in addition to essential safety recommendations. A most typical landscaped cosmetic retaining wall could be the cantilevered system, applying applyed definite, attractive replica piece of rock, and also substantial pebble together with stones.From:Alicia YanezViews:0 0ratingsTime:05:45More inEntertainment

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MAPLETON Lane County engineers have had to shift gears in their effort to stabilize a remote Coast Range road after discovering unexpected conditions underground.

As a result, a bridge will have to be built over a shifting slope along Sweet Creek Road instead of holding the slope back with a retaining wall, as originally planned. Building the 1,130-foot bridge will add about $500,000 to the cost of the project, which will have to come out of the Lane County road fund.

The change will bring the total project cost to $6.3 million, project manager David Brown said. More than 90 percent of the projects cost is being paid through a federal grant.

The county is working to shore up a short stretch of Sweet Creek Road about 2 miles southwest of Mapleton, where an old retaining wall built in the 1970s is failing. Work began this summer on a 370-yard replacement wall, which has forced a number of nighttime closures on the road.

Sweet Creek Road provides access to 68 homes and about 30,000 acres of national forest land and more private timberland. About 5 million board feet of timber is harvested each year from forests served by the road, the county said.

Brown said initial engineering studies indicated that bedrock lay under a relatively shallow layer of soil, making a retaining wall the least expensive fix. But when excavation began, crews discovered that the bedrock layer was substantially deeper than the initial study estimated.

When you open up the ground, thats not an unusual condition, Brown said.

Nevertheless, county engineers were a little surprised, Brown said. They worked with a local firm, OBEC Consulting Engineers, to analyze the situation. It determined that crews would have to build the bridge over the soft ground rather than try to hold it back.

Brown said a bridge initially was considered the best solution, but that the county went with the retaining wall because it was less expensive. Work is now shifting to construction of the concrete piers that will support the bridge.

The bridge itself will be made from precast concrete that will be manufactured in sections and then trucked to the site and set in place. Once complete, any landslides or other earth movement simply would run under the bridge.

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Severe flooding has caused a major landslip near Yate with thousands of tons of soilcracking a retaining wallnear homes this morning.

Sixfamilies in Church Lanein Old Sodbury have been evacuated to the nearby pub, the Dog Inn, amid fears of the wall collapsing and homes beingcovered in earth. A police cordon has been erected.

Resident Dave Moore, who lives in the row of cottages, said: "It was a big shock.I was woken by the police and a dog barking at about 9.30am. I was told I had to get out. The retaining wall has a big crack in it and fire crews are worried it may not hold. My house is a bit further up than the area affected soI was moved out a bit later.

"We have been told to get out for 24 hours and a lot of people are now staying in the pub."

Two fire crews from Yate and a structural engineer were sent to the scene. Damage has been caused to somegarages but no-one has been hurt.

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