Extreme rainfall
 

So much for rainfall collection..my barrels have been filled in less than a few minutes...

it's been literally raining non-stop for 3 weeks already, some places flooded and we're getting more than 30mm of rainfall in an hour :confused:

welcome to the tropics :cool:

Haha.. Does your climate go through an extended dry period as well? Perhaps its time to increase the capacity of the water storage. :)

Hahaha yes it does buddy, its 6 months rain and 6 months summer. its crazy.:eek:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...39698590_n.jpg

If only I could find a way to store all that excess rainwater to last throughout the 6 month summer.:thumbup:

Dig a big pit and use some pond liner, or you could pour concrete... You'd have to pump it out, but its doable.

Daox, That'd be a great project for the summer months. It's too damp and moist to do any renovations at the moment.

Anyway, we received 18.5827 inches of rainwater in 22 hours. Man, it's like a bad remake of Kevin Costner's Water world.

It now makes sense why all the utility lines (phone/electricity/cable,etc) here are located on concrete posts higher than houses and LPG tanks are used instead of gas lines...because of the damn floods...

I just wish the local government would stop using air raid sirens for evacuation warnings. Imagine hearing it while it's raining cows and mules...

"Who the *&% is carrying out an air strike in the middle of this weather?"

Business as usual LOL

These are old pics though...back from the 2009 flood I think.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.n...17490869_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...83061842_n.jpg

I'll just go around and see what's up. Man, it'd be great to have a cup of bourbon and some bagels at this time

That is crazy! Have you had much property damage?

We're okay Daox,Thanks for asking!Good thing the area we have here is high and has very good drainage, it has storm drains like the ones back in Cali so my place was spared from the flood.

One thing I hate after floods is garbage.

They got up to 5 inches of rain in a hour in Beijing China, causing the recent flooding there. We are seeing extreme rain here in places around the USA, and in Russia, and in Thailand, Australia, etc. -- and in most countries around the world.

Scotland also got hit a month ago.

On the other hand, the level of Vistula river is at a 20 year low...

We'll see how much rain falls from Isaac -- they are saying that as much as 20-24" !!

I hope the rains from Isaac fall short of expectation, I don't wanna see some folks lose their homes and livelihoods...sometimes it's all they have...:(

the weather keeps getting crazier by the year...it wasn't like this during the 80s

@solomon
yup business as usual, the floods lasted for weeks so after a few days of being flooded some shops just opened..they need to earn to get life going. In some places with adobe and other non-porous materials under the surface, the flood is still there although just a foot deep since most have either drained or evaporated...and it's damn frigging stinky and has clumps of algae already.

The low lands got hit pretty bad. It only takes 1 or 2 feet to cause major damage.


Kinda weird this building still had power.

http://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_960w/Bost...JPEG-028aa.jpg

oh man, that looks pretty bad..so much for me wishing the united states would be spared from flooding...*sigh*

so, do vehicles there have natural events/acts of god clauses in their insurance?

Insurance companies get to pick and choose what they cover. And they are no longer covering all sorts of things and places. Lots of folks in the Gulf Coast area now live in trailers because they know that any home in that area is temporary and they can get insurance for a house, let alone at an affordable cost.