severe sm. storm; 10 hrs. heavy rain; and 100" snow in 7 days

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Snow Storm - USA


Before weekend squalls add to the 8 feet of snow already on the ground, the communities along eastern Lake Ontario needed the dry respite they got Friday.
"Have to move fast. Want to at least get it off my roof," said Ray DeLong, 75, as he carved a path to his driveway with a snowblower and two contractors pushed streams of snow from the roof of his two-story home.Snow squalls off Lake Ontario have dumped snow by the feet onto Oswego County communities since Sunday, leading Gov. Eliot Spitzer to declare a state disaster emergency.Parish and Scriba had about 8 feet of snow since the squalls started, according to the National Weather Service. Mexico Mayor Terry Grimshaw said his village was blanketed by 7 feet.On Friday, the squalls shifted south into Syracuse and stayed there, dropping 4 to 8 inches of snow.
But forecasters said heavy snow bands would return to Oswego County later Friday night and likely stall there again. The forecasts call for another 6 to 12 inches, pushing the seven-day total over 100 inches.While residents enjoyed Friday's lull, snow plows were out in full force to clear roads. An advisory against any nonessential travel remained in effect for Oswego and three nearby counties. Snow banks tower nearly 10 feet tall and have narrowed roads.Although authorities have reported few problems because of the snow, Oswego Fire Chief Ed Geers said his firefighters have had to help three ambulances that got stuck in the snow.Schools were closed the entire week. Mexico Superintendent Nelson Bauersfeld said if the district exceeds its allotted six snow days, it would have to shorten its winter or spring breaks.
"We try not to get into vacations if we can help it. So lets just hope once this week is over we can get back to normal and be laughing about this come June," Bauersfeld said.More than a week of bitter cold and slippery roads have contributed to at least 20 deaths across the northern quarter of the nation _ five in Ohio, four in Illinois, four in Indiana, two in Kentucky, two in Michigan, and one each in Wisconsin, New York and Maryland, authorities said. There have been no deaths in Oswego County related to the snow.Tennessee and northern Alabama tasted a bit of winter weather Friday morning _ sleet and freezing rain iced over roadways, and some precipitation briefly turned to snow.


Flood - Peru

The district of Pozuzo (Pasco region), a Tyrolean colony founded in the mid 19th century, was cut off from the rest of civilization for three days after two bridges collapsed that connected the jungle region with the outside world. Torrential rain fell for more than 10 hours and caused the overflowing of the Rio Negro and flooded about 20 houses. Electricity and potable water supply are interrupted. Engineer Julio Romero Chuquillanqui, head of Civil defense at the municipality of Oxapampa, said that the 2-lane Tulumayo bridge (kilometer 31.1 of the highway Oxapampa-Huancabamba- Pozuzo), succumbed to the water masses. The same fate suffered the Rayatambo viaduct 5 kilometers further down the road after it was torn apart by the raging river whose water level rose more than 2 meters above normal. Peru's Ministry for Transportation and Communications has sent a shipment containing a temporary bridge to the area.

The emergency began last Tuesday around 4 a.m. according to townspeople's accounts. The regional government is trying send first aid products and supplies by helicopter but its not nearly enough. The situation even worsened when more rain fell Wednesday night that extended for ten hours nonstop causing the overflowing of the Rio Negro which crosses through the Pozuzo Colony. Twenty houses quickly filled up with mud and water, local police troops informed. Electricity and drinking water supply were restored yesterday, Thursday, around 3 p.m. The Civil Defense informed via an official note that the flooding and landslides devastated two kilometers of highway in the Malpaso-Pozuzo route, where five people were killed and another five went missing. Abel Mucha Chávez (50) died after he was squashed by his collapsing house located in Tarma's district of Casablanca. His body was later found underneath the adobe rubble. Reports also say that Fidel Contreras (48) has disappeared. The last time his family saw him alive was when he tried crossing the Tarma river. Search efforts by local police and firemen were unsuccessful.

Meanwhile, works are underway to repair an emergency bridge in Yanango (Tarma-La Merced highway). The temporary viaduct had replaced the original bridge that collapsed more than a year ago, leaving the central forest area isolated for three months. The single lane emergency bridge has a capacity of 36 tons and is only permitted for light vehicles and small buses. This is the route that usually connects the provinces of Chanchamayo, Satipo, Oxapampa, Villa Rica and Pozuzo. Due to lack of permanent control and the irresponsibility of some drivers of heavier trucks, the temporary bridge's metal structure has been debilitated. The Tyrolean colonies of Pozuzo and Oxapampa will celebrate the 250th anniversary of their ancestors departure from various towns in Austria. This latest catastrophe may put a damper on the scheduled festivities.


Extreme Weather - Australia

Severe thunderstorms in the Adelaide River district, about 110 kilometres south of Darwin, have caused widespread damage to the Mount Bundey Station. A storm hit the station about 6:30pm ACST and lasted for four minutes, bringing down about 40 trees and power lines at the station. John Griffin, the caretaker of a bed and breakfast on the station, says it looked like a mini tornado and he had to hide in a bus on the property to escape the winds. "There was just limbs of trees flying everywhere and it gust through my shed which lost a door open and blew out a lot of my gear away," he said. "My washing basket ended up on the road, so I just went into the bus." He says the storm caused widespread damage to the property. "We lost about 40-odd trees and some are just snapped off two metres or so from the top," he said. "The actual root system hasn't come out - it's just snapped them off like matchsticks. "Water tanks have come off our stands and there's a big tree come down on the stables and powerlines are down in some areas."
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can you imagine 10 hrs. of heavy rain where you live? how many bridges would wash out, roads washed away?
we can look at Fl. to see what a small intense thunderstorm can do. the Australian storm lasted 4 min.
it's still snowing in N.Y.

I once read a science fiction novel (don't remember which one) which had people taking shelter in caves to get away from lightening and killer hail. guess that's coming true now.

[joeunderdog]

1. The liberals did this.

Climate Change is utter bullshit. Repeat after me...