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Old 08-24-2006, 09:14 AM   #1
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Default Holy shit, it's raining!

10 minutes ago in Lugano, pics taken from my office! Hail storm, heavy rain, hell broke loose in a couple of min!


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Old 08-24-2006, 09:23 AM   #2
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hehe, the Italian influence in the Lugano region can be seen in the kids "Ferrari" shirt in one of those shots
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Old 08-24-2006, 09:28 AM   #3
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awosme ... that looks lot like here lol ...
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Old 08-24-2006, 10:19 AM   #4
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last year we had a record in Bergen with 220mm of rain in 4 hours. I remember manhole covers floating on a thick spray of water comming up from the ground, rivers formin in the strrets, and people swimming in subpassages. I have never been more soaked in my life, that day home from school.
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Old 08-24-2006, 11:29 AM   #5
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http://img109.imagevenue.com/img.php..._122_382lo.jpg

hehehe, looks like the drainage system wasn't designed to handle heavy rains
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Old 08-24-2006, 11:11 PM   #6
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Heavens! There was hail last week down in Sydney, which was pretty freaky. A bit early for hail.
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Old 08-25-2006, 12:09 AM   #7
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We go quite a bit of rain today. No flooding though, which is good. The baseball sized hail and tornadoes did enough damage!

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_arti...storyid=132903
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_arti...storyid=133040
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Old 08-25-2006, 05:39 AM   #8
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it's supposed to be still summer :roll: :x
in ZH, we have 11° at night and rainy weahter aswell
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Old 08-25-2006, 05:55 AM   #9
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what is this phenomenon "rain" that you speak of?
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Old 08-25-2006, 06:08 AM   #10
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You must be as shocked as a Neanderthal man seeing the Space Shuttle dude!

Water coming down from the sky!!! No dingo, it's not photoshop!
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Old 08-25-2006, 06:49 AM   #11
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^^ haha ......

i though its always raining in australia
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Old 08-25-2006, 10:48 AM   #12
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i though its always raining in australia
Where in Australia? There are water restrictions everywhere specifically because there is hardly any rain.
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Old 08-25-2006, 10:51 AM   #13
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^^ no wonder the kangroos are dieing ...
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Old 08-28-2006, 09:02 PM   #14
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you call that rain?

here we're about to break the record of annual rain... and still in august!

and I love living in a city with 20 million persons and having the drainage and sewers of the 19th century
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Old 08-28-2006, 09:43 PM   #15
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Where in Australia? There are water restrictions everywhere specifically because there is hardly any rain.
Its rained quite a bit this year in Melbourne.. Rained this past weekend if Im not mistaken. Then of course theres cairns, where it never stops raining..

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