A finales de febrero de 1910, dos trenes de la Great Northern Railway permanecieron detenidos cerca de una semana en un apartadero de Wellington, Washington, junto al portal occidental del túnel de las Cascadas (Cascade Tunnel). La nieve y los deslizamientos cerraron la línea en ambos sentidos,... [...]
In late February 1910, two Great Northern Railway trains were held for about a week on a siding at Wellington, Washington, near the west portal of the Cascade Tunnel. Snow and slides closed the line in both directions, and the telegraph wire that ran beside the track went down with [...]
El 29 de agosto de 2005, la marejada ciclónica (storm surge) del huracán Katrina empujó contra los diques y los muros de contención alrededor de Nueva Orleans, y en el transcurso de un día la mayor parte de la ciudad quedó bajo el agua. El resumen habitual dice que la [...]
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's surge pushed against the levees and floodwalls around New Orleans, and within a day most of the city was under water. The usual shorthand says the storm overtopped the defenses. For several of the breaches that flooded the most homes, the post-storm... [...]
El 18 de enero de 2002, un tren de carga de Canadian Pacific Railway se descarriló justo al oeste de Minot, Dakota del Norte, y cinco carros tanque de amoníaco anhidro se rompieron cerca de casas donde la gente dormía. En poco más de un año, esa noche se había [...]
On January 18, 2002, a Canadian Pacific Railway freight train derailed just west of Minot, North Dakota, and five tank cars of anhydrous ammonia ruptured near homes where people were asleep. Within a year or so, the night had become a standard example in the national argument over radio... [...]
En la noche del 12 de noviembre de 1970, un ciclón tropical empujó una marejada ciclónica (storm surge) sobre las islas bajas y las llanuras costeras de lo que entonces era Pakistán Oriental. Los satélites meteorológicos habían fotografiado la tormenta y el Pakistan Meteorological Department... [...]
On the night of November 12, 1970, a tropical cyclone drove a storm surge across the low islands and coastal flats of what was then East Pakistan. Weather satellites had photographed the storm and the Pakistan Meteorological Department had issued warnings, but on islands with few radios, no... [...]
El vapor Sultana explotó en el río Misisipi, a pocas millas al norte de Memphis, hacia las 2 de la madrugada del 27 de abril de 1865. Llevaba prisioneros de la Unión liberados bajo palabra (paroled) en un número varias veces superior a su capacidad legal, y sigue siendo el [...]
The steamboat Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River a few miles above Memphis at about 2 a.m. on April 27, 1865. It was carrying paroled Union prisoners in numbers several times its legal capacity, and it is still the deadliest maritime disaster in United States history. Nobody can say... [...]
