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 Typhoon Ketsana hit the Philippines about one week ago, and later crossed over to Vietnam and Cambodia. Ketsana dropped 455 mm of rain on Metro Manila in 24 hours, or the equivalent of a month of rainfall in a single day. Over 360 people died in this natural disaster and the damages are estimated to reach $100 million. Here are some sad pictures depicting what’s going on over there.  The day before yesterday morning, the Morakot typhoon hit Taiwan, one of the most powerful typhoons ever to hit Asia. On the photos, you will see a six-story hotel that collapsed into a river because of the typhoon. People were not injured as they were evacuated from the hotel even before the typhoon started.  What you’re going to see is not a computer graphics but a real place. It is the Metropolitan Area Outer Discharge Channel, constructed to avoid flooding on typhoon season. Its construction started in 1992. The size is impressive: The maximum height - 25.4 m, maximum width - 78 meters. By the way, this place is open for tourists. I can imagine them circling there with open mouths ;)  The Typhoon class submarine is a type of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine deployed by the Soviet Navyin the 1980s. With a maximum displacement of 26,000 tonnes (26,000 long tons), Typhoons are the largest class of submarine ever built. It could have 160 person crew and carry 20 ballistic nuclear missiles. Only six of the Typhoon class submarines were built. In its day it was one of the most feared weapons of mass destruction ever made. The cost of operations for the Typhoon submarines was so high that the Russian Navy retired all but one of them in favor of older Delta class SSBNs after the collapse of the Soviet Union.  |
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