Dec 06, 2007
Monsoon
A bit of monsoon rains off an on for the last few days (no I'm not complaining - it's actually reasonably warm outside). This morning we got a little over an inch in about 20 minutes - or about 1cm/hour. The morning drive was a nightmare. With the wipers on full speed they couldn't brush the rain away fast enough to actually see anything over a couple of meters away. Everybody was crawling along at 20km/hr on Highway 1. It was a bit flooded near the Princes Highway - about a foot deep in places. (The Princes Highway is very much like El Camino Real back in California - it's the old highway; lined with business establishments, whereas the coast highway [highway 1 or the F6] is the newer freeway.)
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I love being able to watch rain like that. It's similar in Thailand, so warm you could be out in the rain all day and not get chilled. One time it rained so hard my contact lenses were washed out of my eyes. Another time, the lightening storm was so intense I counted 80+ bolts in 60 seconds. Still again, we've had the water almost come in our house (with a 6 inch threshold) after just 15 minutes of downpour. And finally, I've stood in water over an inch deep in the center of the road (crowned) that had yet to run off to the side.
Mike...don't you mean an inch in 20 minutes equals 7.5 cm/hour?
Gak, got my conversions backward again... one of my co-workers reported the 1cm/hr from the weather station at his house and I was trying to backtrack to inches - dividing rather than multiplying.
But in fact I think it was probably closer to 7.5cm/hour where I was driving. His house is behind a hill from there, and I was right on the ocean. No matter - whatever the measurement was, it was a whole lot of water in a short period of time. Another co-worker rode in on a motorcycle through the torrent. Needless to say he wasn't a happy camper - opened the office door and he's stripped half-naked trying to dry off with a heat-shrink tubing gun; which resembles a lady's hair dryer but a bit more industrial strength.