It's a friend of mine, he lives in one of those cement cylinders, you know like those street pipes they keep laying around construction sites.
Flow paths are extracted from a specially processed digital elevation model that incorporates hillslopes, streets, pipes, and channels, and travel times are computed in each cell using the average wave celerity from kinematic wave theory.
The civil applications include detecting buried services under city streets (pipes, cables…), continuous inspection of layers in road pavements and airport runways, mapping cavities or voids beneath road pavements, runways or behind tunnel linings, monitor the condition of railway ballast, and detect zones of clay fouling leading to track instability.
"What's worse than the street?" "A pipe.
I was standing a little north of the new skyscraper, watching workers on the street lay pipe in a big underground trough, when suddenly the sidewalk -- in violation of all the laws of sidewalkery -- started to move.
As workers in hard hats swarmed over the gaping hole in the street, laying pipe and removing rubble, officials from the City Department of Business Services handed out dozens of applications for emergency grants to businesses and claims adjusters from insurance companies made their rounds.
The first step to ameliorate pollution in the canal was the construction in the 1890s of the Bond Street sewer pipe line that carried sewage out into the harbor, but this proved inadequate.
Book an all-inclusive Inca experience trip to Machu Picchu and cry at the beauty of high street pan pipe players miming over backing tracks while a fat American from Podunk, Idaho complains about his bowel disease, Mr. PhD In Obscure Cultures.
The local municipality supplies piped drinking water to domestic taps and street stand-pipes at intervals ranging from 2 to 28 days.
"Don't promote the SNP," advises a Labour canvasser and, as we walk down the street, Clarke pipes up again.
