It made no sense to us to line miles of canals with levees and then leave a gap like that. It basically failed before the storm began.
Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.
The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date palms intersected by canals fringe its margin heavily, and extend to some distance inland.
When the blind lead the blind, they all fall in the canal.
It's nice, this. The canal." He looks at me. "You." "I'll bet you say that to all the canals.
In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.
I know people want to dump the blame on the corps, and that's fine with us, but there were a lot of design features we wanted on those canals that were ultimately accepted by sponsors.
It doesn't take much to the canals to look blighted.
Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.'
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations: plantations, mines, railways, and irrigation canals have carved up former wilderness.