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[fishandchips]

How are acre feet of water collected and then taken to storage? Open silos or tanks? Pump trucks that siphon the collected water and take the water to a holding tank? There has to be a way to share that information with other countries too that have wet rains by the buckets and forest fires too.

[CielOnTap]

I'm trying to find out information about yesterday's earthquake in Sichuan and any damage. Since I know that a charity (founded by Jet Li) is active in the area from the time of the 2008 quake, here's a report of infrastructure and aid work done in Sichuan during the third quarter of last year: http://www.onefoundation.cn/html/81/n-981.html

Article from a Chinese government newspaper on the quake:
At least one injured in Sichuan earthquake
10:45, January 31, 2010
At least one person was injured and one house collapsed after an earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter Scale hit southwest China's Sichuan Province early Sunday, local earthquake administration said.

The injury was reported about two hours after the quake jolted the border area between Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality at 5:36 a.m. (Beijing time), said an official with the Sichuan Provincial Earthquake Administration.
Sichuan quake

January article on the progress of reconstruction in the region after the 2008 quake:
90% done in 2010

[CielOnTap]

The East Coast of Canada (Newfoundland) and the lower US (Florida) are having bad weather days. Newfoundland, according to the Weather Network, has a blizzard or snow bomb in progress with 100 kph winds at times. That is one snowstorm that Premier Danny Williams is not home for, as he is in the US for health treatment.
Newfoundland's got the snow that Vancouver could use!

Florida is a under a tornado watch.


Central Florida under tornado watch until 8 p.m.
By Bianca Prieto and Anika Myers Palm, Orlando Sentinel
2:21 p.m. EST, February 5, 2010
The National Weather Service in Melbourne has issued a tornado watch for several Florida counties this afternoon.

The forecasters' warning specifically mentions Lake, Osceola, Polk, Orange, Seminole and Volusia counties among the 27 counties with the conditions that could spark the dangerous storms.

The tornado watch is in effect until 8 p.m.

Seeing south-north line of storms moving across the state from the west, forecasters expect a 50 percent chance of rain early this afternoon and, after 4 p.m., more wind and rain, according to the National Weather Service.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/weather/os-orlando-weather-20100205,0,6094954.story

Think that the weather might scuttle the shuttle launch on Sunday?

NASA Managers Say "Super Shuttle" Sunday Launch a "Go"
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:50 PM EST


Officials meeting at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida reviewed space shuttle Endeavour's readiness for flight at the L-2 prelaunch meeting. They unanimously decided to move forward with the STS-130 mission countdown to launch on Sunday at 4:39 a.m. EST.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

[deja vu]

Thunderous mudslides damaged dozens of homes, swept away cars and pushed furniture into the streets of the foothills north of Los Angeles on Saturday as intense winter rain poured down mountains denuded by a summer wildfire.

No injuries were reported but residents and emergency responders were caught off guard by the unexpected ferocity of the storm, which damaged more than 40 homes and dozens of vehicles. Five hundred homes were eventually evacuated at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains after heavy rains overflowed debris basins, carried away cement barricades and filled houses with mud and rocks.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35271036/ns/weather/

[dreamon]

A busy weekend for Mother Nature:



TOKYO(Foxnews) — A strong earthquake shook several small islands off Japan's southern coast on Sunday, rattling buildings over 100 miles away in Taiwan and causing officials to temporarily issue a tsunami warning. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. Japan's Meteorological Agency said the earthquake hit at 3:10 p.m. and registered magnitude 6.6. The U.S. Geological Survey measured it at 6.4.

Japanese officials immediately issued a warning for a tsunami about 1.6 feet high, but removed the warning about an hour later. The quake was also felt in Taiwan, about 155 miles to the east, where residents in Taipei could feel buildings shake. The quake hit 69 miles off the southern coast of Miyakojima island, in southern Japan, at a depth of six miles, the Meteorological Agency said. The small island is about 1,120 miles southwest of Tokyo. Japan is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. In 1995, a magnitude-7.2 quake in the western port city of Kobe killed 6,400 people.


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LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif.(Foxnews) - Thunderous mudslides damaged dozens of homes, swept away cars and pushed furniture into the streets of the foothills north of Los Angeles on Saturday as intense winter rain poured down mountains denuded by a summer wildfire.

No injuries were reported but residents and emergency responders were caught off guard by the unpredicted ferocity of the storm, which damaged more than 40 homes and dozens of vehicles. About 800 homes across Los Angeles County were evacuated for much of the day after heavy rains at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains overflowed debris basins, carried away cement barricades and filled houses with mud and rocks.

http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2010/02/ ... latestnews


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WASHINGTON(Foxnews) - The whiteout at the White House. Snowmageddon. Snowpocalypse.
No matter what it was called, the blizzard that buried the nation's capital was indeed epic.

The flakes had stopped falling, but residents in the Mid-Atlantic region were faced Sunday with the prospect of digging out of more than two feet of snow in some areas. Roads reopened but officials continued to warn residents that highways could be icy and treacherous. Hundreds of thousands of people from Pennsylvania to New Jersey to Virginia were without power, left in the cold and possibly without a way to watch the Super Bowl. The heavy, wet snow snapped tree limbs onto power lines and several roofs collapsed under the weight. Still, most tried to make the best of the situation.

http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2010/02/ ... latestnews

[Smitty]

We do have a problem in the Interior of B.C. with so little snow, that we simply cannot believe it, plus anyone up to the higher lakes, to possigly fish on the frozen ice, look at our resivors only to see them lacking water or even some snow.

That will mean or drinking water in this town will always read 'BOIL WATER" for the run-off of snow from the mountains is simply not there (which is what we MUST USE) AND of all things this is the only town, or city compared to all the rest that CANNOT suck water from the big lakes. Plus the small fish hatchery in lower town, are to to given more water then all of the town itself. Govt has some strange rules & regulations.

Also considering the Wild Forest Fires in the B.C. Interior in '03 to just last summer were costly to try & pring control to not to mention some homes to buildings were totalled and YES basically because of such little snow last winter ONLY this one is stagger in being so little.

[CielOnTap]

As storm approaches Southern California, evacuations ordered for L.A. hillsides
February 9, 2010 | 7:58 am
Foothill areas north of Los Angeles are under a flash flood watch as another winter storm approaches, threatening burn areas with more mudslides and prompting mandatory evacuations for hundreds of homes.

Showers and thunderstorms are expected to drop between 1/3 of an inch to 2 inches of rain starting Tuesday afternoon through Tuesday night, said forecasters with the National Weather Service in Oxnard. Though the storm will be patchy and "showery," forecasters said it could dump more than a half-inch of rain an hour in some areas.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/02/as-showery-storm-approaches-evacuations-ordered-for-hillsides.html

[Smitty]

Once you have wild forest fires to it finally being put out with a maze of downed trees due to workers to maze of water-----then come warm or hot weather along with a lot of rain & suddenly you start to have slides that will wipe out homes to businesses to roads.

Nature is a hard beast to understand we are finding out not to mention earthquakes her & there over the few years.

Just a half-block or two home lots to one normal road in distance there is this hill & those with homes have been worried about their Fir trees possibly catching on fire to topping on top of their homes. I just home they have not payed specialist to take out to many of them. Fortunately it is not at the base of a mountain itself. True their back yard is basically all the way up the steep hill into those trees & looking nice, but not as nice when one thinks of wild forest fires.

[deja vu]

Adult snow day in DC:

[Rhet-or-Ric]

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Speaking of snow in Washington D.C. here are some pictures of what can happen if there is too much snow on the roof over your nice 50-million-dollar jet.

http://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=61325

And if you click on the link in the second post of that forum you will find this near the top of the page for the Dulles Jet Center.

Corporate jets work hard these days. That’s why we designed the Dulles Jet Center to offer new and unmatched standards at every turn.

"... at every turn." Except downwards.

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