Before and After

[Ensign Steve]

Dayum. The second one looks like the surface of the damn moon.

[livius drusus]

Only a lot soggier. Soldiers and horses drowned in those shell craters. Tolkien's daughter says he was inspired by the moonscapes of the Western Front when he wrote the Dead Marshes scene in The Two Towers.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Too bad BB2 is at work; he could tell you all about Passchendale.

On topic (not embeddable, sorry):
ABC News - Brisbane floods: before and after (there's a part 2)

[freemonkey]

Originally Posted by Sock Puppet

From here, someone making the case for similar action in Seattle.

They have been talking about getting rid of that Alaskan Way viaduct since before the quake damaged it 10 years ago. I swear they do more "discussing" than "doing" in Seattle.

[livius drusus]

There are some amazing pictures of Japan before and after the tsunami in this NYT feature. They have a cool slider set up so you can drag between the before and the after.

split.JPG tsunami.JPG after.JPG

[SR71]

[Doctor X]

But Global Warming is a fraud, right?





Right?

--J.D.