It has been a wet April!
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:44 am
We have had a bit of rain this month in NZ!
(well, poor consolation, I know
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It has been a wet April!
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Re: It has been a wet April!
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:19 am
Be grateful you're not in Kazakhstan?
(well, poor consolation, I know )
(well, poor consolation, I know
)Re: It has been a wet April!
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:15 am
Where I live in the East of England we generally have much drier weather than other parts, but there have been few days this year so far when we haven't had any rainfall. The floodplain areas around the River Nene look like lakes, and other streams and rivers are swollen to an extent I haven't seen before.
We are not very good at managing the planet really. Many parts of Africa have not seen water for months, and crops have been destroyed. Now, if only the UN could do its day job and get the nations together, to see how all the excess water could be carried from one continent to another...
We are not very good at managing the planet really. Many parts of Africa have not seen water for months, and crops have been destroyed. Now, if only the UN could do its day job and get the nations together, to see how all the excess water could be carried from one continent to another...
Re: It has been a wet April!
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:59 pm
Re: It has been a wet April!
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:25 pm
Just had a lightning strike outside. Suspect it hit the rails of Southwest trains. Quite loud, quite bright. Then hail.
Re: It has been a wet April!
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:43 am
That made the news here, Woody. We tend not to think of that sort of storm happening in those areas, but a water industry colleague showed me a video of a similar event in Quatar where he had worked.Woody wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:59 pmThey’ve had some in DXB today as well
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X0N9waR-tog
We've had plenty of rain here last month, and also in far north Queensland, where Granddaughter is currently kayaking in the resultant high flows.
Re: And it was in Jan '69....
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:10 pm
....we returned from a few days down at Masirah to find Sharjah looking like an aircraft carrier, a runway surrounded by water. The Shackletons that had been left there looked a bit like those pewter tankards that were hand beaten. One of the techies was so overcome with his excitement to describe the storm that he got a tad carried away "There were golf balls as big as teacups, honest."
The accommodation area was knee deep for about two weeks but the PMC insisted that standards had to be kept up so we waded to dinner carrying our long trousers and our (highly polished) shoes and a towel. Wash feet in toilet sinks, dry feet, socks on . After dinner it was partially undress and wade back to our Twinehams??(were they called?) and by now the water was bloody freezing. There were several cases of near hypothermia from those who had refreshed themselves too much and fell in the muddy water on the way home. It's a miracle we survived Oi tell 'ee.
The Ancient Mariner
The accommodation area was knee deep for about two weeks but the PMC insisted that standards had to be kept up so we waded to dinner carrying our long trousers and our (highly polished) shoes and a towel. Wash feet in toilet sinks, dry feet, socks on . After dinner it was partially undress and wade back to our Twinehams??(were they called?) and by now the water was bloody freezing. There were several cases of near hypothermia from those who had refreshed themselves too much and fell in the muddy water on the way home. It's a miracle we survived Oi tell 'ee.
The Ancient Mariner
Re: And it was in Jan '69....
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:04 pm
Sharjah 1963Rossian wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:10 pm....we returned from a few days down at Masirah to find Sharjah looking like an aircraft carrier, a runway surrounded by water. The Shackletons that had been left there looked a bit like those pewter tankards that were hand beaten. One of the techies was so overcome with his excitement to describe the storm that he got a tad carried away "There were golf balls as big as teacups, honest."
The accommodation area was knee deep for about two weeks but the PMC insisted that standards had to be kept up so we waded to dinner carrying our long trousers and our (highly polished) shoes and a towel. Wash feet in toilet sinks, dry feet, socks on . After dinner it was partially undress and wade back to our Twinehams??(were they called?) and by now the water was bloody freezing. There were several cases of near hypothermia from those who had refreshed themselves too much and fell in the muddy water on the way home. It's a miracle we survived Oi tell 'ee.
The Ancient Mariner
Re: It has been a wet April!
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:22 pm
Those stones look as if they need a coat of paint Ricardian!
Re: It has been a wet April!
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:21 pm
Not stones, very few of those kicking around. They are old ammunition boxes filled with sand or sand/cement, the SWOs pride & joy. But yes, they will need a coat of paint before the next AOCs. AOC MEAF was Johnny Johnson, notoriously "picky" on AOCs inspection.