Some geysers were low to the ground and hardly visible, just a faint shimmering of warm air above them; others looked like tall berms of clay pouring out thick gouts of steam.
On 11 May, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal proposed that engineers build a 2-meter-tall berm in front of the islands.
The 8- to 15-foot-tall berm that surrounds Disneyland was designed to keep out the real world and keep in the fantasy world.
Fifty years from now, people will look back at the 900 and say, 'I remember when he invented that trick".' On Sunday night, as practice for the Moto-X big air competition began, the attention of the sold-out Staples Center quickly shifted from the vert ramp to a series of metal ramps that led to an imposing, 20-foot-tall dirt berm.
Inside the dirt road is an earthen berm, tall enough to prevent anyone, even the driver of an 18-wheeler, from seeing over.
In the darkness, marksmen crouch in tall reeds near a berm alongside the railroad tracks, watching spots where militants have been laying bombs.
A fifteen-foot-tall turf-covered earthwork berm, it happens to be identical in height and construction to the original westernmost portion of Hadrian's Wall.
The $15 million plan by Olin Partnership, a noted landscape architecture firm, shows a lush circular island ringed by tall trees, fountains and a landscaped berm to muffle traffic noise.
Make your berm as high as possible, at least eight feet tall and 20 feet wide, and as long as your property line.
Cummings stood stunned; he stumbled over the berm, looking for help but he found only a farm field of tall dry corn.
