Posted on 06/09/2005 6:17:57 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
3,000mm(118.11 inches) of rain in 9 hours over S. China, including Shanghai.
200 people already killed due to the record downfall of rain.
Rain is expected to continue for a while.
Over a foot of rain an hour?
Wow.
good Lord that is almost 13 inches an hour...
you couldnt walk in rain that hard. It would beat you down.
The B.S. meter just pegged.
Yikes! Gullywasher. 10 feet of rain.
Ping!
Geez, the Amazon basin is only supposed to get 108 inches a YEAR!
Just can't be correct. Something lost in translation? Niagra Falls doesn't dump that much water!
That is hard to believe. Do we have a typo?
118 inches of rain in 9 hours? Is that possible?
Is this info from ABC?
First snow in Somalia and now this. Next thing you know we will have rain in Northern California in mid June. Wait it is raining in Lodi California right now. Must be global warming. Just no other explanation. I am becoming a blabbering liberal. Not!!!!
13+ inches an hour for 9 hours?
Short of the 40 day flood, is that even feasible?
Stunned.
BS.
In June 2001 in Pasadena TX we got 25" of rain in 8 hours. It can happen.
I hope thats a typo. It makes more sense that 11.811 inches fell. If 13" per hour fell there would be massive floods as the ground couldn't soak it up fast enough. And actually being able to breath while outside would be a chore. Rain that hard can drown a person before they knew what was happening.
I call BS also! If this were true, every media site would be balbbering non-stop about it. This would make the Tsunami at Christmas small potatoes in comparison if it were true.
Looks like the record rainfall in the USA is 43 inches in 24 hours, from Houston, TX.
Here in the Florida Keys we had 23.55 inches in a 12 hour period in October 1981.
Can't imagine this report from China is true.
China is metric. Problem in translation of the conversion of metric to SAE and then into English copy?
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