Oh, the weather outside is...

More rain it's been a lot last 3 weeks. A week ago think we had triple the average July.

More floods.

www.rnz.co.nz

Weather updates: Rivers burst banks, flooding as wild weather hits South Island

Floods are likely to close State Highway One in a number of spots in the lower South Island tonight, the New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi is warning.
www.rnz.co.nz www.rnz.co.nz

Currently 8 degrees. Wettest month in Christchurch since records begun 80 years ago.

Dunedin seems to be a bubble and avoids the worst of it.
 
More rain road north closed, army on alert and flood waters rising.


My city 2:35 mark local water of leith through the University.

4 months rain in one month.
 
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Pouring down rain - 6" in 6 hours, and another 7 hours of hard rain expected before it trails off this afternoon. I got an email from my boss saying the roads around campus are flooded, please consider taking your classes online today. Unfortunately, it was sent 3 minutes after my workday started, so I was already at work. One entrance was blocked off because of flooding, and there were 3 cars stuck on the road or in the ditch at the other entrance.
 
Cough, cough, cough. The smoke from huge forest fire some 90 km away has reached me.
 
CKS said:
Pouring down rain - 6" in 6 hours, and another 7 hours of hard rain expected before it trails off this afternoon. I got an email from my boss saying the roads around campus are flooded, please consider taking your classes online today. Unfortunately, it was sent 3 minutes after my workday started, so I was already at work. One entrance was blocked off because of flooding, and there were 3 cars stuck on the road or in the ditch at the other entrance.
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Sounds like St. Louis! Our daughter lives there (Webster Groves), but they are high enough to avoid serious flooding.
 
Birdjaguar said:
Sounds like St. Louis! Our daughter lives there (Webster Groves), but they are high enough to avoid serious flooding.
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Yes, I'm in the metro east. My neighborhood didn't get serious flooding, but several of my students came in with pictures of their cars in water, with depths ranging from tops of the tires to tops of the roof. We'll see what happens tomorrow, when the forecast is for more heavy rain.
 
Samson said:
That is pretty cool, but it is worth noting that they had some real skills and probably knew what they were doing. Do that in the wrong place and you could very easily die.
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Cops told them to knock it off.

Every now and then students turn up dead via stupidity. The last 3

1. One got drunk fell in harbor. Hyperthermia RIP.

2. One dug a big hole on the beach sand collapsed killing him.

3. Two jumped in a wheelie bin drunk and decided to ride it down the steepest street in the world. She died he had severe head injuries.

One also died via a punch up. Said street.

Cops said one small thing went wrong and dead or they're risking others that have to rescue them.
 
Zardnaar said:
8 degrees Celsius atm.
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We've had a few days lately that I wouldn't mind swapping temperatures. You can keep the flood, though.

It was hot today, but we're having a thunderstorm right now. There's a cool breeze coming in the window... bringing the neighbor's marijuana stink with it.
 
.95" of rain in our backyard in 30 minutes this afternoon. "Water water everywhere,...."
 
Birdjaguar said:
.95" of rain in our backyard in 30 minutes this afternoon. "Water water everywhere,...."
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I checked the map, but was mostly interested in that the state is called New Mexico. Was it annexed by US in the war against Mexico? (and if so, was it called that already at the time?)
Certainly would never happen in Europe, to keep such a name, we like to rename stuff or return them to their name back when they were in the country prior to being taken ;)
 
Kyriakos said:
I checked the map, but was mostly interested in that the state is called New Mexico. Was it annexed by US in the war against Mexico? (and if so, was it called that already at the time?)
Certainly would never happen in Europe, to keep such a name, we like to rename stuff or return them to their name back when they were in the country prior to being taken ;)
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North America is full of places named "New ______." People want a fresh start but still have nostalgia for where they came from.
 
Valka D'Ur said:
North America is full of places named "New ______." People want a fresh start but still have nostalgia for where they came from.
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Yes, but it can't be that the state was already in the US when it was named by people who migrated there from Mexico as colonists. I have to suppose it had that name before, as part of the empire of Mexico, and was conquered by US in their war, yet US kept the name.
 
Kyriakos said:
Yes, but it can't be that the state was already in the US when it was named by people who migrated there from Mexico as colonists. I have to suppose it had that name before, as part of the empire of Mexico, and was conquered by US in their war, yet US kept the name.
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That seems the most likely explanation, and since they couldn't call it just "Mexico", they decided to add a "New" onto it and call it a win.

Or at least that's my guess. This isn't something that was ever covered in any history class I took either in school or college.
 
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