Showing posts with label storm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label storm. Show all posts

8 March 2017

Iconic rock arch from 'Game of Thrones' falls into Malta sea

This is a April 2014 image of the landmark the Azure Window located just off Malta. The natural rock arch jutting off the Maltese island of Gozo, has collapsed into the sea during a storm. Malta’s prime minister called the loss on Wednesday March 8, 2017, of the iconic limestone formation “heartbreaking.” No one was injured by the fallen arch, which was also a TV and film backdrop.
The Azure Window, a natural rock arch which jutted onto the sea off Malta and was a backdrop for the "Game of Thrones" TV series, has collapsed in a storm.

Malta Prime Minister Joseph Muscat tweeted his "heartbreaking" sadness at the loss Wednesday of one of the main tourist attractions on the island of Gozo.
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10 January 2017

Fans mourn death of California's famous 'drive-thru' sequoia

In this May 2015 photo provided by Michael Brown, John and Lesley Ripper pose in the Pioneer Cabin tunnel tree, a giant, centuries-old sequoia that had a tunnel carved into it in the 1880s, during a visit to Calaveras Big Trees State Park near Arnold, Calif., in the Sierra Nevada. The tree came crashing down on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, as a massive storm system stretching from California into Nevada swept through the area over the weekend. Park volunteer Joan Allday said the tree had been weakening and leaning severely to one side for several years.
Joyce Brown was 12 when her parents first took her to visit the "drive-thru tree," a giant sequoia in California famous for a car-sized hole carved into the base of its trunk.
Brown thought she had entered a land of giants as she walked underneath and around the ancient 100-foot-tall tree, which was toppled by a massive storm on Sunday.
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8 January 2016

All the winter's a weird weather stage; Here are the players

In this photo taken Jan. 10, 2014, the United States side of Niagara Falls in New York has begun to thaw after the recent "polar vortex" that affected millions in the U.S. and Canada. Get ready for weather whiplash as powerful climatic forces elbow each other for a starring role in making winter weird. The spine-chilling polar vortex is taking center stage at least in Europe and much of America bringing persistent cold _ except in Hollywood where soggy El Nino won’t give up the spotlight.
Get ready for weather whiplash as powerful climatic forces elbow each other for starring roles in a weird winter show.
The spine-chilling polar vortex is taking center stage in Europe and bringing persistent cold to much of North America — except in Hollywood, where soggy El Nino won't give up the spotlight.
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