During Katrina, the storm surge coming up the Intracoastal Waterway destroyed a 4, 000-foot long floodwall.
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Inside is a deep, two-foot long plastic bin full of blue tubing and packets of asthma medicines.
This set came with plans for 500-plus models, including a 4-foot-long Hudson locomotive and a 5-foot-long Zeppelin.
The two foot long fish is enjoying 100gm of fresh mussels a day from the local supermarket.
You may never have heard of the lancetfish, a sometimes 4- to 6-foot long fish with enormous teeth.
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Pull it out and its wings, about a foot long, snap into place.
He hopes to be selling around 50 metric tons of the stuff by next year, enough to fill five 20-foot long containers.
The hornbill cackles, and white Xs on the faces of oryx, with their three-foot long straight spike horns, can be glimpsed through the acacia branches.
The three-foot long parasite grows in the body for one year and feels like a hot iron hit the skin when it emerges.
Schade had the challenge of using 8 foot long plywood kayak strips to make a kayak that was to be 18 feet long.
Technology advances in the last few years have replaced older, faster-moving windmills with new, self-monitoring turbines whose 150-foot long blades adjust to wind direction and speed.
The 740, 000 square-foot (69, 000 square-metre) building has a 1, 960 foot long main assembly floor, with a railway line running through the door handy if you are making locomotives.
We're not reserving our ticket on the airborne hotel just yet, but if we did, we'd be joining another 179 passengers on the 20-ton, 310 foot long craft.
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And let us not forget the sportsman with the most fabulous mane of all: Pittsburgh Steeler Troy Polamalu, whose 3-foot long curls, many Pittsburghers believe, give him his Samson-like strength.
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Place a freshly cut, 2- to 3- foot long log upright on the bare ground, place a mound of dirt on the top end and cover it loosely with black plastic.
The line-up this year consists of ten identical 68-foot long yachts -- all sponsored by different cities around the world -- that are currently on the eighth and final leg of the race.
Mr. Turner said he and his wife bought the townhouse on the rebound after being outbid by a few thousand dollars on a co-op on Central Park West with a 50-foot long park view.
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It is a lush ballroom with a fresco ceiling and plaster frieze and large arched and curtained windows that, on Patriots Day, are blocked by a 6-foot high, 30-foot long tracking board that updates the media on the progress of the race.
The company hasn't said which handset will be used in the satellite, but they chose Android because it allows engineers to easily modify the phone to do their bidding -- from controlling pulse plasma thrusters to handling the advanced guidance and navigation systems of the foot long satellite.
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The poetry and performance art was of a different sort on Saturday morning, when I set out in search of the Idaho Potato Commission's 28-foot-long, 12-foot-wide, 11.5-foot-tall spud.
The other half features two 50-foot-long, 20-foot-wide conveyor-style robots that spend 20 hours a day plucking and packaging 62, 000 pills dispensed to 5, 800 residents of skilled nursing facilities in Maryland and Delaware.
It's a 30-foot-long, 4-foot-deep, fully automated stainless steel tub that produces a pasteurized egg by bathing it for about an hour in water that is precisely controlled to between 128 and 150 degrees (the exact temperature is secret)--hot enough to kill salmonella and other dangerous microbes without cooking the egg, (see sidebar).
At a 4-foot-long skylight, a 7-foot corrugated-plastic lighting sculpture made of small plates hangs from the 20-foot ceiling.
It leveled a 50-foot-long stretch of the 15-foot wall in front of the prison and caused damage to the market around the area with a radius of about 50 yards in every direction, blowing away these metal doors in front of the market stalls.
In the center of the room stands what looks like an enormous playground slide, almost 12 feet tall and 21 feet long, displaying a small section of a 184-foot-long parchment scroll with depositions from the early 14th-century heresy trial of more than 200 Knights Templar.
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"It didn't take customers long to figure out that there was more value in the foot-long, " said Dennis Lombardi, executive vice president of food-service strategies at restaurant development firm WD Partners.
The 916-foot-long ship was launched in December 1996 and refurbished in May 2012, the company said.
The secluded compound is tucked behind gates, situated at the end of a winding 1, 800-foot-long driveway.
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Exhibits include an eight-foot-long rotor, half of a hundred-and-fifty-ton truck, and a pump of Brobdingnagian proportions.
Where are you going to put a 12, 000-pound potato that travels on a 48-foot-long flatbed trailer?
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