At least 8 people were killed and over 100 injured as massive storms dumped heavy rain and large hail on parts of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and India on March 30, 2018. Crops and hundreds of homes were badly damaged in Bangladesh and in Rautahat area in Nepal.
Two people died in Rangpur division while one in Dinajpur division in Bangladesh, according to Department of Disaster Management control room officer Kamrun Nahar.
Newfie wrote:Here on Guadeloupe we took a walk up a small stream bed. One of the things I noticed was how the stream bed was strewn with good sized boulders. Strewn is not the right word because that does not begin to convey the size of these rocks. The largest were up to 15 to 20 FEET in diameter. Within the one mile we travelled there were hundreds of them, perhaps thousands over 10’ diameter.
The production of the boulders is no mystery, they are everywhere, the result of the volcanic origin of this island. But to find so many in the stream bed was interesting. And they had not simply washed down into the stream, they had been carried down the stream by the force of water. Some of them were standing proud, alone.
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Then I looked at those boulders and tried to imagine what amount of rain was required to move them. It must have been a truly stupendous amount of rain. How long had they set there? 10, 100, 1,000 years?
You smoking the good stuff again?pstarr wrote:An intact forest has no landslides. Giant ancient trees have roots that go down a hundred feet. They wrap around and lock up giant boulders.
Contour map of how cold we have been in the last week. Worst in the nrn plains and upper Midwest. 20F+ below average for a week. That is way out on the temperature distribution. #aprilcold #midwest
An unofficial new state record low has been broken for the month of April with temperatures bottoming out at -24 degrees. Winter hanging on strong.
vtsnowedin wrote:Snowing here tonight. Not much but it could quite and turn into spring anytime and nobody around here would have a word of complaint.
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