Before-and-After Pictures: Underwater Church Reappears

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  1. Professor

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    Before-and-After Pictures: Underwater Church Reappears

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...05-church-exposed-drought-venezuela-pictures/

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    Exposed Church

    You might call it an act of God. A severe drought in Venezuela has exposed a church—pictured in 2008 (left) and on February 21, 2010—that had been inundated when a hydroelectric dam was built in 1985.

    The 82-foot-tall (25-meter-tall) church and the Andean town of Potosi (see map) were flooded to establish the Uribante-Caparo water reservoir to power the plant, which is currently operating at just 7 percent of its capacity, according to the Reuters service. (Get news on the global water crisis.)

    The church is now an ominous symbol of energy shortages in the country, which gets around 68 percent of its power from hydroelectricity, Reuters reported. The droughts spurred Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to declare an energy emergency in February.
     
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    :) That's pretty cool Professor but I personally would call it an act of Mother Nature and not the other word :XD: I like to watch that show What on Earth on the Science channel and they talk about things like this :coffee: They have had entire lakes that have vanished then reappeared is really cool

    not sure if this is the right clip or not :cool:
     
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