Crazy Los Angeles car accident sees vehicle lose control and land hanging off a wall
A car lost control and spilled off the road and landed on a wall in Los Angeles Sunday. According to an NBC news report, the vehicle skidded up the concrete retaining wall after losing control...
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CLEAR LAKE | This one of North Iowa's 50 Things is referred to by some residents as "Clear Lake's front yard."
The Clear Lake Sea Wall was a project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) completed on July 1, 1936.The WPA was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression.
The split-boulder retaining wall was commissioned by state conservation officials and constructed by workmen from a transient camp located north of Mason City.
The site along the lake in downtown Clear Lake was home to the White Pier Amusement Park until it was destroyed by a wind storm in 1931.
The Sea Wall is dotted with benches for visitors to stop and enjoy looking at the lake dotted with boats.
The location is home to the Lady of the Lake and many community events including the Color the Wind Kite festival, Lions chicken BBQ, and the Seawall to Seawall run set for Aug. 30.
The area was recently a subject of controversy as a group sought to place a veteran's memorial along the Sea Wall. The Clear Lake City Council voted not to place that memorial on the Sea Wall. But the council did vote to form a task force to select a new location for a veteran's memorial which could include the Sea Wall.
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August 25th, 2014 6:24 pm by Rain Smith
Updated at 10:35 p.m.
KINGSPORT An elderly woman has been killed after crashing through the carport of her Kingsport home, sending her vehicle over a retaining wall and into Fort Patrick Henry Lake.
The incident occurred at about 3:55 p.m. on Monday.
Based on a preliminary investigation, Kingsport police believe Inez N. Summers, 92, was driving a 1998 Lincoln Town Car into the driveway of her residence, 3743 Hemlock Park Circle.
For unknown reasons, according to the Kingsport Police Department, Summers lost control of the sedan, entered the carport and overrode two metal retaining posts. The Lincoln then exited the rear of the carport and continued down an incline at the back of the home, crossing a retaining wall and splashing into the lake.
Kingsport police say a neighbor called 911 to report the crash.
Summers' car was submerged in the lake, with divers recovering her body within an hour. She was the sole occupant of the vehicle, police said.
Police say the actual cause of death has yet to be determined and an investigation is continuing.
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Sacred Space August 13th, 2014
The Bridge Community Church in Arnold, MO took two days and restored a retaining wall for a family in need. Scripture says that we are to be the hands and feet of Jesus, and one of the ways...
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A section of the Windward Main Road at Mt. St. George should now have reopened after it was closed to vehicular traffic last weekend.
Explaining the reason for the closure, the Secretary of the Division of Public Utilities and Infrastructure, Gary Melville says, Over the weekend (August 16) the retaining wall failed because it is an older wall.
Traffic had to be re-routed following the partial closure of the popular eastern roadway. Motorists travelling east were advised to use Castara Road and drivers heading west turned off by Caledonia Road and exited through Castara Road.
Most eastern residents say they were grateful for an alternative during the road closure. But, several did express disgust, especially with the behaviour of some of the drivers.
According to a Mt. St. George villager, drivers who were unaccustomed to using the alternative route drove through the village recklessly. Another resident stated that some unfamiliar drivers got lost and reached as far as Hillsborough Dam. He believes this occurred due to a lack of signage throughout the detour route. In his opinion, the two detour signs erected along the Windward Main Road were inadequate.
According to Secretary Melville, repairs to the retaining wall and road began on Monday. The job was completed by workers from the Divisions Development Programme. Melville indicates that DIPU staff worked overtime to rebuild the retaining wall and roadway. He said the roadway should have reopened by Friday (August 22).
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EVERY week The QT publishes the names of drink-drivers who have been in court in Ipswich over the past week.
Learner four times the limit
AFTER drinking throughout Australia Day last year crashing his car into a retaining wall at a party wasn't enough to convince a serial drink-driver to stay off the road.
Bruce Allen Baldwin, 30, was driving an overloaded, unregistered and uninsured ute, while he only had a learner's permit and was more than four times the legal limit.
After drinking through the day on January 26, 2013, Baldwin overloaded his ute to drive to a Hatton Vale party. He was swerving through traffic and speeding on the Warrego Hwy.
Baldwin, who was out of jail on parole having been imprisoned for torture, arrived at a party where he continued to drink. When one of the passengers wanted to leave, the four piled back into the ute and Baldwin again got behind the wheel. He straight away drove the car into a retaining wall.
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KUCHING: Teo Gek Tiang, who has been residing at Laman Bong Chin off Rock Road here since 1980, is dismayed that a commercial project had partially occupied the only access road to her house.
Met at her residence yesterday, she lamented that the current access road measured sevenmetres would shrink to lessthan five metres upon completion, leaving very limited margin for cars to reverse or exit.
She said the developer had covered up the monsoon drain to cater for the project and what struck her as irresponsible was it further occupied two or so meters along the access road for a retaining wall.
Never mind that they covered the monsoon drain and we would never know whats going on underneath. It is absolutely unacceptable now that they decided to make the only access road of ours narrower.
Do they expect us to do reverse all the way to get to the junction? Ive been living
here for almost 35 years and never have I come across such an irresponsible gesture, totally ignoring how we the residents here feel and the inconvenience caused, she said in the presence of Batu Lintang assemblyman See Chee How, who is also state PKR vice chairman and a lawyer by profession.
Also present was Teos daughter Su Hoon, who said letters of complaints had been sent to the Land and Survey Department (LSD) and Kuching South City Council (MBKS)
She added that she had also made a police report on Aug 12 against the developer.
As of yesterday, none of the authorities had either responded to the complaint or taken any action.
Su Hoon said some parts of the road had sunken as a result of the construction works which also caused part of the car porch to crack .
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Retaining Wall "Engineered" by Parks #39; Masonry
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Sheila Quelch of Rockingham has filled the tire wall on her property. She uses the wall to divert water from her horse's living space. (Kayla Rice/Reformer)
ROCKINGHAM -- The owner of the property containing the so-called "tire wall" that has generated controversy throughout town has filled the tires with material to prevent them from becoming cesspools of bugs and bacteria and hopes the issue is closed.
Sheila Quelch, of 64 Golden Hill Road, said she removed 450 tires from her land and filled and covered the stacks of the remaining ones with fill supplied by the Rockingham Highway Department from its garage on Blake Street. She was careful to ensure the top tires of each row are exposed as required.
Quelch told the Reformer she had gotten a permit from the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources about two years ago to build a retaining wall out of whole tires and soon collected several hundred. She said floodwaters created by Tropical Storm Irene surged into her horse's living area and its accumulation caused the animal's hooves to start to decay. She told the Reformer she got permission to construct the tire wall in order to create a way to divert gushing water into a ditch in case an Irene-like event ever happens again.
"When (Tropical Storm) Irene came, all the water from the hill came down," she said walking up to her Belgian horse. "Her hooves look really good now, but they were rotting away. That's why this happened. ... The purpose of the tire wall is keep my horse's hooves from rotting, to keep them dry."
Despite the permit from the state, several nearby residents complained to the town that the tire wall was an eyesore that posed potential health hazards. The concerns resulted in the Rockingham Selectboard members dedicating themselves to resolving the issue. Municipal Manager Willis D. "Chip" Stearns II told the Reformer the fill was leftover town-owned ditching material and came at no more cost to taxpayers than if it had been delivered to any other town resident. He said anyone can get town material by applying for a permit to fill. Quelch explained the state gave her the permit for the tire wall and extended her deadline after she was unable to meet it because of weather conditions.
Stearns told the Reformer on Friday the issue -- as far as the town is concerned -- has been resolved. He said a state inspector will visit Quelch's property on May 20, 2015, to see if any additional fill is needed.
Quelch said she has not counted all the tires on her acre-and-a-half of property, but doubts she has the 900 to 1,200 she is suspected of having. She declined to say where she got the tires, but said the wall is a safe way of recycling them.
Several tractor tires are lined along a portion of her horse's roped-off living space. A separate wall of smaller tires is on the opposite side of a walking path and curls toward the edge of her property. Quelch filled the tractor tires and the smaller ones, while covering all the smaller tires except the top ones of each stack. She has layered horse manure on some of the smaller tires and said she plans to use it as compost when she plant perennials.
"It's great fertilizer," she said. "I have not bothered anybody. I am trying to improve my property."
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August 20, 2014 City responds to controversy
By TESA GLASS tesa.glass@register-news.com The Register-News The Mt. Vernon Register-News Wed Aug 20, 2014, 06:14 AM CDT
MT. VERNON The city has issued a response to concerns cited by residents about a retaining wall on South 42nd Street which has fallen and who is responsible for its repair.
As stewards of taxpayers dollars, the City of Mt. Vernon has a responsibility to fairly and accurately assess all situations regarding claims against the City in various situations, information from the city states. It is the Councils obligation to make sure that these precious resources are utilized judiciously and only expended in areas under the jurisdiction of the City. The failure of the City to do this, might divert these monies from issues of more critical need, to areas not under our responsibility. This is the situation facing the City as it assesses the case brought against the City by Sara and Jon Henninger regarding the retaining wall.
About 40 people spoke out in support of the Henningers at Mondays City Council meeting. The couple, whose property is bordered by the retaining wall, have filed a lawsuit against the city to have the problem fixed.
The City of Mt. Vernon has been working with Mr. and Mrs. Henninger on the situation with their retaining wall since approximately October 2010, the information continues. At that time the City received a letter from their legal counsel addressing their concerns about the wall. The City immediately responded to the Henningers and expressed its opinion regarding ownership and maintenance of the wall based on documents regarding the project. The City did not have any contact with the Henningers about this issue until a scheduled meeting with the Mayor and City Manager iniated by the Henningers on May 10, 2013. At that time the City restated its position regarding the ownership and maintenance of the wall. On May 20, 2014, Mrs. Henninger spoke at the Council meeting about her concerns with the wall.
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