Crossword clues for floodwall
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n. A man-made vertical barrier designed to temporarily contain the waters of a river or other waterway during a flood
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Floodwall,an art installation by Jana Napoli, is composed of drawers salvaged in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005.
"Floodwall was made in an attempt to give voice to the silence of a city in ruin and a people in diaspora." - Jana Napoli
- In 2005, two months after Hurricane Katrina and the collapse of the levee system (see "2005 levee failures in Greater New Orleans") had ravaged her native city, began collecting the remnants of people’s lives cast out on the sidewalks. The lost drawers she collected represent the radical obliteration of a stricken people's past. Napoli retrieved 750 drawers from dressers, kitchen cabinets, desks and bureaus. The empty drawers were cleaned, and the addresses of the houses were marked on the back.
The contents that remained were then photographed. The resulting objects along with the recorded oral histories make up the installation. Floodwall poses the question to its onlookers: what price are we willing to pay for the protection of the intimacy of our households?
Usage examples of "floodwall".
The ramp, and the rest of the wall of earth along the interior side of the Richmond floodwall, was loose and uncompacted, barely useable for foot traffic.
Either project was going to be the biggest engineering contract in a hundred years of Richmond's history, ten or twenty times as large as the Floodwall project.
Maybe do some things with the bridges and the floodwall on that side, in the way of sucking them in, but basically the south side is open terrain and you'll just have to sit on this side and pound them with artillery.
Replicating the complete defense is just not on, none of the other features, such as the floodwall, interstate embankment cuts or the valley channels, are replicated.
The upper portion overlooked the whole floodwall and it was from this location that the Forty-Ninth and Sixtieth Infantry Division commanders would maneuver their troops.
The twenty-four-inch monitor appropriated from the head of Reynolds' Management Information Systems department was indicating that the Posleen vanguard had just reached the floodwall and was spreading out to either side of the entrance.
So, there will be a line of ornaments, on little stands, every fifty yards all the way up to the floodwall gates.