 | | The USA spans a huge territory, full of beauty and contradictions. The weather alone brings joys and terror. In one day, a single location, can have temperature swings greater than 25 degrees Celsius. The morning may be a beautiful summer day; a few hours latter the same place can experience a full snow blizzard. Hail can be the size of baseballs; tornadoes will often rip a narrow path through towns, leaving behind destroyed houses and many lives. Tornadoes, Hurricanes, and all weather events hit poor neighborhoods just as they hit wealthy ones. But some people are better prepared than others, to cope with these uncertainties. Well built structures will better safeguard the life of their occupants. Good construction is costlier, bad construction hurts the most disadvantaged in society, and ultimately all of us... In 2009 the Economy is the issue, more on that later...Life goes on... 
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NM Pictures |    The "Across America" page is a photo journal of a two week trip in March 2007. From Morgantown West Virginia, south through Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama down to Enterprise, just recovering from a tornado that killed 9 students at the local High School. Then on through Florida, to the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Cost slowly recovering from the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. Then across Galveston island and the rest of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, all the way to San Diego California. Returning east via the high deserts of California, Arizona on to Albuquerque New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania to West Virginia. 5600 Miles in two weeks, icy roads, wind, hail, thunderstorms, sand storms, snow, rain, all in a day's driving across America. Since this the island of Galveston was almost completely wiped out by hurricane Ike in 2008. Who knows what 2009 will bring... |
| A página "Across America" é um foto journal de uma viagem de duas semanas em Março 2007. De Morgantown no estado West Virginia, direção ao sul através da Virginia, depois pelas Carolinas, pela Georgia, até á Vila de Enterprise no Alabama, onde no dia 1 de Março um tornado tinha matado 9 estudantes na escola segundária local. Depois seguio-se a Florida, até á costa do Golfo do Mexico até ao Mississipi e depois a Louisiana ainda a sofrer dos danos provocados pelo furacão Katrina. Daí seguio-se pela ilha de Galveston e pelo resto do Texas em direção oeste rumo ao Novo Mexico, Arizona, e finalmente atingi o Oceano Pacífico em San Diego na California. O retorno para leste fez-se passando pelos altos desertos da California, Arizona, a cidade de Albuquerque no Novo Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania até de novo a West Virginia. Perto de 9 Mil kilometros em duas semanas ora por estradas geladas, ou ventanias de virar camião, tenpestades de areia, trovoadas a fazer rios na estrada ou gelo do tamanho duma bola de golfo. Tudo isto possivel num dia através destes Estados Unidos para as gentes que agora cá vivem. No verão de 2008 o furacão Ike destrui a vida de milhares de gente na ilha de Galveston. |
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