Sentences with phrase «foot walls of water»

Twenty - foot walls of water, stomach - turning heaves, pbj sandwiches lost at sea.

Okay, so I sign that treaty, get it passed, pass all the laws to get us running the economy on hope and dew drops and then no 20 foot wall of water?

So I just sign the Kyoto agreement, ask the Senate to pretty please pass it, then ask both Houses of Congress to pass some laws on reducing emissions and THEN no 20 foot wall of water, right?

Not exact matches

On August 8, 1975, the dam collapsed and sent a wall of water nearly 20 feet (6 meters) high and 7.5 miles wide (12 kilometers) downriver, according to a summary of a chapter in the book «The River Dragon Has Come!»

When you're looking at an 8 - foot - high wall of water in front of you that you are going to have to go up (because it's in the way); well, let's just say it's a rush.

The Gihon spring, outside the city wall — ancient Jerusalem's only unfailing source of water — is made inaccessible to attackers, and its waters channeled through a tunnel cut through the rock, into the city, for a distance of about 1700 feet.

How can these people, we ask, after experiencing a miraculous liberation from a first - class oppressor, after watching the enemy collapse under walls of water, after waking up with manna at their feet — how can they carp about not having water?

Scientists are reporting that a wall of water up to nine meters (30 feet) high surged onto Hawaiian shores about 500 years ago.

In an unusually severe storm nearby Miami Beach would be swept by a wall of water up to 16 feet above the current sea level.

Some 3.5 billion years ago, a meteor splashed into an ocean on northern Mars, creating a wall of water 400 feet high.

He spent his lifetime piecing together the story of how a raging wall of water hundreds of feet high roared across eastern Washington, carving deep channels before cascading down the Columbia River Gorge as a wall of water high enough to turn Oregon's Willamette Valley into a vast backwater lake.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Dewayne Schaaf is at the top of the courthouse steps with his two children on a perfect spring night, looking down the hill to the riverfront where almost 46 feet of water is pressing up against the flood wall that keeps the Mississippi River from pouring into the historic downtown.

That day, the incoming wall of water reached 9 meters (29.5 feet) above normal in places.

Sometimes they have sent onto land a wall of water nearly 3 meters (9.8 feet) high.

The Raptor never flinched one bit — even when plowing through a foot of water, which applied a lovely wall of mud to the exterior sheetmetal in a very Jackson Pollack fashion.

A centaur, a minotaur, and a lion, all rendered in frozen water, are larger than life and staged in front of a twenty - eight - foot - tall castle wall.

If you live on the ground floor, consider the result of a foot or more of water contained inside your apartment by the floor and wall.

Some of the landmarks on this tour are only accessible by air, such as Sacred Falls, a thousand - foot cascade of water that falls from the walls of the luscious Kaluanui valley.

With an 8 - foot, high volume board under my feet, I had the impression of a wall of water hitting on me just to knock me down and swirl until I gave up another attempt to surf it.

The Maligne Canyon, a 164 feet (50 metres) deep gorge of sheer limestone walls with a number of interesting rock formations, is very popular with tourists, as is Maligne Lake - the largest glacier - fed body of water in the region.

The dive master or his helper swim out about 15 feet away from the wall and dump a load of chum bait into the water.

Lizards and birds were perched in the nooks and crannies of the limestone walls that rose up around the sinkhole; the cool, blue water, about 280 feet deep, was perfect for diving if you must.

Your relaxing respite will begin when you are greeted by the wonder of the dancing fountains and 40 foot water wall.

Your journey to paradise starts at the portico where you are greeted by a wall of water that cascades into a finger bowl and continues below into a sand - rinsing foot bath.

Situated on the north wall just outside the stingray city cut, the mooring sits in 55 feet of clear blue water.

Sheer granite walls plunge thousands of feet into calm indigo water, broken only by the reflection of the towering snowy peaks that border the sound.

The deep walls of Grand Cayman typically start around 55 feet with the shallow reefs starting in as little as 10 feet of water.

Deep South sites are appropriate for advanced divers as the wall top is in approximately 70 feet of water.

Out of the three rooms their installations will occupy at the event at PACE in London, the largest will include six works and feature Universe of Water Particles, Transcending Boundaries, a virtual waterfall that extends beyond the gallery wall onto the floor, flowing through the space and around the feet of the viewer.

Come hell or high water, this time it's gonna be different..., installation view, 0 to 60: The Experience of Time in Contemporary Art, NC Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, 2013, 8 feet 10 inches x 41 1/2 feet, mixed media wall installation

The 1800 sq ft space with 14 - foot ceilings cost $ 1000 / month, had no dividing walls, and the only source of running water was a slop sink.

In this illogical «machine» the wings of a tiny origami crane are set in motion by a string passing through a hole in the gallery's wall connected to a series of devices - ultimately propelled by a seven foot waterwheel comprised of giant spinning dentures dipping in and out of a plastic pool of water.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

The 1,800 square - foot space, for which they paid $ 1,000 per month, had no dividing walls and the only source of running water was a slop sink.

Stacked Waters consists of 3,100 square feet of custom — cast acrylic that covers the cavernous atrium walls in a striped swirl pattern resembling water.

One especially bad flood in 2003 sent «a wall of water 20 foot deep and 60 foot wide down on me and my kids,» she says.

If you live on the ground floor, consider the result of a foot or more of water contained inside your apartment by the floor and wall.

In July of 1895 in Casper, WY, a 20 - foot tall wall of water flooded Westwood School, killing an encampment of settlers.

Another rider, New York City - based Steve Martocci, says he plans to move his Peloton bike up to an empty water tower on the roof of his apartment this summer, where he'll project the videos onto the 18 - foot wall surrounding him and have a more immersive experience.

Professional Experience SMC Construction (Irvine, CA) 05/2007 — Present Senior Project Superintendent • Supervise and managed subcontractors for a $ 4.2 million parking garage for LA Valley Collage • Perform demolition of the existing parking lot and construction of new 458 parking spaces • Install new lighting and «fire life safety» emergency phone system throughout the parking lot • Construct new storm drain system, Bio-swale, landscaping and new marquee signs • Oversee an $ 18 million construction project for the Ventura County Fire and Sheriff Academy Training Academy (FSTA) • Build single story, metal framed, 47,640 square foot of classroom building • Construct classrooms, fire lab, driving and shooting simulator rooms, library, offices, kitchens, multipurpose rooms, break rooms, and restrooms • Supervise and manage the construction of the Gold LEED Huntington Library • Oversee demolition of existing library in accordance with city regulations • Manage the construction of the $ 28 million Gold LEED Rieber Hall for UCLA • Direct team of more than 120 workers a day for refurbishment of 424 dormitory building • Ensure compliance with Title 24 and the latest code and building regulations • Perform asbestos abatement, installation of HVAC system with new boilers and ductwork, plumbing with Solar panels providing hot water to 24 bathrooms with multiple showers, toilets and sinks, and ADA compliant restrooms • Install electrical system with an emergency generator backup system, 4 traction elevators, windows, and curtain wall system • Completed project on schedule without disrupting the University's use of the 1st floor and exterior • Oversee the $ 5.6 million exterior renovation of the Anaheim Convention Center • Remove exterior walls on 3 sides of the building and install complex new curtain wall system in 20 bays • Maintain job site and public safety allowing use of the convention center during ongoing construction

It has two curved steel and glass towers and its outer design includes a 270 - foot long wall of cascading water.