Strange, I'll have to look at the local properties -- it sounds like you guys flood the same way our areas flood here, specifically. Last major flood in Salt Lake City was in 82'-83' after monsoon rains and a heavy winter melt (this is 15-35 minute drive, but on one of two major highways going downtown.

That "flood" (City Creek flood) was something to behold as the community was driven into overdrive and created a man-made river going down Salt Lake Valley's state street (if you run google earth state street goes right into the middle of downtown, with LOTS of businesses. The flood river was pretty long from memory, like 6-10 miles. They built man-made river and then built bridges every block to get across (that is community power!). I remember standing on a bridge, amazed that humans could triumph over nature that well, sometimes.

The flood was bigger than what it says as there was flooding down all major canyon rivers and creeks (everything I-15, which goes into L.A., & east needed to be worried -- again google earth will show you the roads, rivers and creeks --, same with the Jordan River and next to the Great Salt Lake (which had been flooding over and over again for years -- they made a giant drain at one end of the lake and created an evaporation pond to dump excess into. No more floods for the lakes anymore and many flood rivers and creeks areas are cut-off and gone now (put underground).

Good luck to you guys. Hopefully, it lets up.

edit-Damn I was looking and some of the setups are the same except you get tropical (we almost never get tropical monsoons unless a hurricane hits off of California and moves in; otherwise, we get little garbage thunderstorms that cause "local" problems). No cyclones/hurricanes to ever worry about as the mountains would rip a tropical depression to shreds. Snowpack is our "cyclone".

>> ^dag:

The last massive flood in the Brisbane area was in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Brisbane_flood">1974. This is the monsoon season- but most years it just means thunderstorms.
Still raining heavily this morning. Animals are pairing up.

This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by Hybrid.

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by burdturgler. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Secret-Places-of-Google-Earth

Your video, Grand Theft Auto using Google Earth..., has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

I can't help but wonder if this isn't sponsored by Microsoft/other company in some way, as there have been multiple stories about MS testifying against Google over monopoly concerns.

I am not certain how easy it is to put together this information (address, phone, random pictures, ties together of random activities, etc) on some random stranger as I have trouble finding this information on myself, family members, and friends. Unless of course they post it freely on their facebook/myspace/twitter/whatever the flavor of the season is.

My only concern with Google Earth/Maps would be that it takes a picture at an angle a normal passerby couldn't hope to achieve (satellite or extreme heights to go over privacy fences). A lot of government websites include pictures of homes taken on behalf of the government for their public documents....plus lots of other information like selling price of house, floor plan, current owners, residents, liens, failure to pay taxes.....

Hell I wish their address estimator was more accurate because nothing pisses me off more than trying to hunt for address numbers when driving down the road.....if you knew what the houses before it looked like you'd save a lot of hassle and traffic hazards of people sudden slamming on their brakes or doing U turns in the middle of the road.

I feel real geeky trying to follow the train path on Google Earth. Somewhat not surprisingly the path it takes (track layout) is almost identical to what is there today.

Your video, Google Earth Guys, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'google, earth, employees, chicago, family matters, afghanistan, north korea, 2001' to 'google, earth, employees, chicago, family matters, afghanistan, north korea, Dan Meth' - edited by Sarzy

>> ^Psychologic:
Awesome. I'd love to pull out an Android phone and look up the traffic patterns ahead during a trip.
As far as tracking people, there are much easier ways already. With the right access you can already track cell phones (easy way to keep up with your kids). I'm sure it will be very easy with tech like this, but it isn't exactly difficult now.


Actually, your Android phone probably already tells Google where you are, as do most phones running Google Maps. They use this information as part of the detection of traffic congestion on roads, apparently, which is already available to be viewed in Google Maps Mobile.

Your video, Google Earth Knows Your Every Move (5:21), has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

>> ^rychan:
Upvote for that Google maps link alone. That is cool!


Yeah, seriously. Time to enter some coords in Google Earth!

http://www.videosift.com/video/Mars-In-Google-Earth-5-0

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Can't wait until Google Earth has live satellite feeds.

>> ^Schattdaddy:
What kind of car was taking the video? Police? Civilian?


Could be one of the Google Earth cars.