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Hinchcliffe's Corner
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Have a look at how many of the world's great rivers have their source on the Tibetan plateau, and you can see why China is so keen to control it.
He might even catch Bono.
NilSatisOptimum
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If anyone offers you any shore caught Mackerel and they are in abundance already, swerve, they love to eat human sewage, maybe its finally the Brexit bonus in that we have found a palatable way to eat our own crap.
Covered by most of our media yesterday and making international News, makes you proud to be British. Get the flags out and all that.
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The mad thing is, is that I was listening to a podcast about the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami just yesterday.
Hinchcliffe's Corner
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That's mad that.
NilSatisOptimum
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Small price to pay for saving humanity!
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It really makes you think
Kinda Karma I suppose. A years rainfall in a day.
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The rain over the past couple of days wasn't due to cloud seeding.
When they plan to do seeding the National Meteorological Office issues a press release the day before.
From last Friday they had big diggers out making temporary reservoirs for water tankers to dump the rainwater in they would be sucking up off the streets. The rain started late Monday evening but started to really fall hard around Tuesday 10am.
We had over 250mm of rain in 14 hrs. London averages 49mm a month. The clean-up bill will be horrendous, hundreds of millions of dollars, and that's before you factor in the cost of shutting the airport down, diverting flights etc.
I was very, very lucky - the only house on the entire block that didn't get any water damage. I went walking around earlier and there's people out on the street, utterly shell shocked. Homes ruined.
This was what I saw when I opened my gates at Midnight.
This was 150m down the street the following morning, after about 9 hours of no rain. The white SUV floating on the left is a Chevrolet Tahoe, quite a big hefty car. The vehicle stopped/stalled further down in Yellow is a fire truck. Just to the left and beyond that fire truck is a car port. The underside of that car port in 210cm from the floor. Theres around 30cm gap.
Here is one of the temporary reservoirs they dug out in a few short hours. (Clearly, it wasn't enough) This was taken this evening, lots of the water has already soaked away.
Here's a pretty cool video, you can see the severity of the rain in parts.
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orchard
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Great info thanks.
Bloomberg are maintaining that:
"The Gulf state’s National Center of Meteorology dispatched seeding planes from Al Ain airport on Monday and Tuesday to take advantage of convective cloud formations, according to Ahmed Habib, a specialist meteorologist. The NCM on Wednesday said the seeding had taken place on Sunday and Monday, and not on Tuesday. Cloud seeding involves implanting chemicals and tiny particles — often natural salts such as potassium chloride — into the atmosphere to coax more rain from clouds."
Anyway, whatever the cloud-seeding/salting the Earth situation, I hope you you're okay
250mm = 250 litres per sq metre, or effectively 1/4 full IBC's.
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