Hey friends,
there have been heavy rains the past couple of days all over alpine regions. Weather is beginning to lighten up, but who knows how long that´ll last.
All over the country roads are being blocked by streams of mud and debris, whole valleys and even counties are inaccessible. Roads are flooded and destroyed.
Because of that, about 2/3rds of my colleagues weren´t able to come to work and had to stay at home this morning.
A creek running through my village has transformed from a friendly rivulet 12" deep to a 7´ deep, fast, and muddy monster. You can hear boulders rolling along its path, and even feel the earth vibrate as they bump into each other.
Two valleys upstream, another "creek" had destroyed a road, washing away 20ft running across it. A car driver tried to cross what he thought was shallow water with pavement underneath and was washed away. They have found neither vehicle nor driver yet.
The weather is easing up on us, fortunately, but the earth is all soaked with water, so the flooding will go on as the mountains get drained the next few days.
Really makes you stand in appreciation (and fear) of nature´s powers. Funny how every year superlatives are being topped, and I can´t see how mankind should NOT have any impact on this. These things used to happen in the past, but with decenniums rather than months in between.
heavy rain/flood in mid Europe
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tubeast
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heavy rain/flood in mid Europe
Hans
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MW HoJo 2011 FA, Wessex "Chief"
Melton 46 S
1903 or earlier GLIER Helicon, customized Hermuth MP
2009 WILLSON 6400 RZ5, customized GEWA 52 + Wessex "Chief"
MW HoJo 2011 FA, Wessex "Chief"
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Chuck(G)
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Chuck(G)
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Joe, as far as I am aware, CFC's haven't been cited as major "greenhouse gases", but are rather tied into the expansion of the "ozone hole" over the southern hemiphere.bloke wrote:' ' any of you scientists know which one of the following: shooting off R-12 or R-22 (' have hoarded both) will likely induce more global raining? I would like some rain pretty soon, but probably not quite as much as tubeast has experienced.
As far as global warming goes, it's happening. How much of an effect man's activity has had is subject to some debate.
Remember reading "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" when you were a kid? Well, that's fast becoming something that'll go "When I was a boy, Kilimanjaro had snow":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4362561.stm
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bort
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I sure hope everything soon improves for you...
Back in June, I had the opportunity to spend 10 days in Austria and Italy, traveling and playing a few concerts with my community band. While in Austria, we stayed in Innsbruck (played in Wattens) and the town of Nauders. (Both within a few hours of you, right?) Anyway, it is truly a beautiful country, and it hurts to watch the footage of the flooding on the news. Not to mention all the people that are affected by this. I can only imagine what it's like in person.
So, best of luck to you all. Meanwhile, I sit here with a watchful eye on the Atlantic and another "curiously" overactive hurricane season...
Back in June, I had the opportunity to spend 10 days in Austria and Italy, traveling and playing a few concerts with my community band. While in Austria, we stayed in Innsbruck (played in Wattens) and the town of Nauders. (Both within a few hours of you, right?) Anyway, it is truly a beautiful country, and it hurts to watch the footage of the flooding on the news. Not to mention all the people that are affected by this. I can only imagine what it's like in person.
So, best of luck to you all. Meanwhile, I sit here with a watchful eye on the Atlantic and another "curiously" overactive hurricane season...
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tubeast
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floodpics
Just in case you were interested...
This http://www.vtom.at is the homepage of a guy who takes lots of pictures in the area. Just click on "Bildergallerie!".
The first two galeries deal with the flood, most of the others show you what it´s like when the weather is nice.
see ya
This http://www.vtom.at is the homepage of a guy who takes lots of pictures in the area. Just click on "Bildergallerie!".
The first two galeries deal with the flood, most of the others show you what it´s like when the weather is nice.
see ya
Hans
Melton 46 S
1903 or earlier GLIER Helicon, customized Hermuth MP
2009 WILLSON 6400 RZ5, customized GEWA 52 + Wessex "Chief"
MW HoJo 2011 FA, Wessex "Chief"
Melton 46 S
1903 or earlier GLIER Helicon, customized Hermuth MP
2009 WILLSON 6400 RZ5, customized GEWA 52 + Wessex "Chief"
MW HoJo 2011 FA, Wessex "Chief"
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Too bad about the floods, and the loss of life. Every year here during our monsoon season, we have flash floods. People who are newcomers to the area, or who just don't get it yet, will drive around barriers and try to cross flooded washes in their vehicles.
A few years ago they instituted a new law, that says that if people have to be rescued from a wash after driving around a barrier, the agencies can charge them the real cost of the rescue, which can easily be $10,000. It has been dubbed the "stupid motorist law" and it is enforced a couple times every year.
A couple days ago we had rain all day...and it was a record rainfall for a single day in monsoon season. One usually dry wash was bank-to-bank with 12 feet of water in it, roaring along. It was on TV. We had two kids die in washes already this year, both in flash floods. One was a two year old in a vehicle that drove into a wash, and the other was actually being carried by an adult (flash flood went through their property) and the water knocked the man off his feet and he lost her. Really sad.
One reason why washes are so dangerous is that it can be sunny overhead and upstream rain can cause a wall of water many feet high to come roaring down out of nowhere; it contains everything it can carry, from trees, rocks, stumps, bushes, mud...and if it hits you, even if it is only a couple feet high, you will have a really hard time surviving.
MA
A few years ago they instituted a new law, that says that if people have to be rescued from a wash after driving around a barrier, the agencies can charge them the real cost of the rescue, which can easily be $10,000. It has been dubbed the "stupid motorist law" and it is enforced a couple times every year.
A couple days ago we had rain all day...and it was a record rainfall for a single day in monsoon season. One usually dry wash was bank-to-bank with 12 feet of water in it, roaring along. It was on TV. We had two kids die in washes already this year, both in flash floods. One was a two year old in a vehicle that drove into a wash, and the other was actually being carried by an adult (flash flood went through their property) and the water knocked the man off his feet and he lost her. Really sad.
One reason why washes are so dangerous is that it can be sunny overhead and upstream rain can cause a wall of water many feet high to come roaring down out of nowhere; it contains everything it can carry, from trees, rocks, stumps, bushes, mud...and if it hits you, even if it is only a couple feet high, you will have a really hard time surviving.
MA