The Earth Is Square

I just heard from family that the only remaining Covered Twin Bridges in the US is half gone. The flood waters have washed away the western span of the bridges.

I found some pictures.. but will be taking my own on Monday when I get to eastern PA.

Before

Floodwaters:

After

I hope the do decide to rebuild the lost span.

West Paden is the span on the far side of the first picture.

Eastern Pennsylvania (where I grew up) had just a "little bit" of rain last few days..

The flood level at Bloomsburg:

http://newweb.erh.noaa.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=ctp&gage=bmbp1

And some pictures of the area:

http://www.wnep.com/Global/Link.asp?L=196774

Some key pictures..

(Orangeville - Helicopter for Water Rescue - This helicopter came to
assist in a water rescue and landed in the field at the Orangeville
Fire Hall.) Heh.. that's where I grew up

Hmm, no wonder mom couldn't go into town:

Dam that is a few miles north of Orangeville..

Gave out tuesday night, leading to most the flooding in the picture above.

Bloomsburg Fairgrounds are going to need a new "High Water" mark on the buildings.

I'll be in the area Monday next week .. I'll take some pictures of the remains.

This is the first of several science releated collections that will be put together and released for World Wind. This pack covers the following:

• NASA Lightning Map
• Crustal Thickness
• National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
• NOAA Coral Reef Watch
• NOAA Great Lakes Data
• NOAA DART (Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis)
• Chernobyl
• US Vegetation Growth 1990-2005
• US Forest Coverage Type
• US Arsenic Levels

The data from these add-ons comes from varius sources. I am working with several NASA, NOAA and USGS groups to bring their data to the public. The rest of the data was found using the national atlas site.

Download the installer here, warning it is a 17mb file.

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US Arsenic Levels

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US Average Vegetation Growth 1990-2005:

NASA Global Lightning Intensity Map:

US Forest Cover Types:

NOAA DART

NOAA Coral Reef Watch

NOAA Great Lakes Data

Crustal Thickness

NSIDC

Here are some screen shots of three new World Wind Add-Ons that will be in the "World Wind Science Pack".

US Average Vegetation Growth 1990-2005:

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NASA Global Lightning Intensity Map:

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US Forest Cover Types:

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These will all be in the Science Pack v1 installer which will be released this week.

You will need GE4 Beta to see the data though.

See the GE Community post for some more info. Download the KML here.

I have permission from ESA to bring some of their Real-Time data into World Wind. First up: ATSR World Fire Atlas; with more data to follow.