Where is all this bl**** rain coming from

LooseBoots



Joined: 08/02/2009
Posts: 1258

Message Posted:
01/01/2012 17:42

Is our winter early or is this going to beat thw wet winter of 2 years ago?

hattikins


Joined: 17/02/2008
Posts: 2793

Message Posted:
01/01/2012 17:47

We should be ok in the summer then after all this rain, if it carries on we may have to build an Ark.

Ballyboffin


Joined: 25/08/2007
Posts: 903

Message Posted:
01/01/2012 19:53

LOL hattikins, So that is why they did build one at Bafra.......

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
01/01/2012 20:43

Wait for all the "How do I cure rising Damp?" posts........... Answer, Buy a properly constructed House...

ozankoys


Joined: 20/06/2008
Posts: 905

Message Posted:
01/01/2012 22:02

We never complain about the rain here, we need the water for the summer!

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
01/01/2012 22:35

So long as it doesnt end up in my pool, like last year!! ...



The torrents from the mountains I mean ..

deputydawg


Joined: 30/03/2010
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
01/01/2012 22:41

I have not been taking any accurate measurement of rainfall experienced to date but simply by the amount of water I have had to send to waste from my pool so far this Winter, the aggregated rainfall is no where near what we experienced in a couple of hours one day 2 years ago at this location. Then, dry ravines became raging torrents which stayed that way for weeks as water cascaded down the mountainsides. Unless such a storm occurs again this Winter or there are very protracted periods of heavy rain I anticipate water shortages again this Summer and the necessity to pay dearly for deliveries by tanker. The water table seems to be the key as evidently the capacity of reservoirs to store water is outstripped by ever increasing demand for water. Perhaps the recent census would have been more accurate if they had counted the cups of water used throughout the TRNC !

paddywack


Joined: 04/05/2009
Posts: 959

Message Posted:
01/01/2012 23:32

You do not know what rain is.

Ballyboffin


Joined: 25/08/2007
Posts: 903

Message Posted:
02/01/2012 01:21

paddywack, you so are right. I love the line in Mrs Brown's Boys when she meets the Mormons.........



'It rained for 40 days and nights and they called it a disaster........ In Ireland we call it the feckin SUMMER'



lol

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
02/01/2012 02:30

BALLY I HAD TO SIGN IN JUST TO say I LOVE IT Love to you xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

pammick


Joined: 09/07/2009
Posts: 722

Message Posted:
02/01/2012 09:50

Great stuff bally! The same could be said for Yorkshire too!!!!!! Rain? This ain't rain it is a refreshing shower and oh how we will be praying for it in the summer eh?



Oh - by the way --------- A very happy new year to everyone on the forum! Let's hope this a good year for the TRNC and all of us who love our adopted home!

All the best to everyone!

Pam

Ballyboffin


Joined: 25/08/2007
Posts: 903

Message Posted:
02/01/2012 12:14

Lilli, Great to see you back on here. Love to you too xxx



And a Happy New year to ALL



( Except for a selected few! lol )



Pat

selpak


Joined: 15/12/2011
Posts: 281

Message Posted:
02/01/2012 12:18

The last time i looked the rain was coming from the sky!



We need plenty of rain over the winter months.

Turtle


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
02/01/2012 12:27

If always amazes me that when we visit the Gecitkoy reservoir is always half empty ?

The amount of water that must come down the mountain seems to be largely lost to the sea.



2 years ago after the bad rains we visited the reservoir for a walk it was early May and it looked down even then and the overflow area looked as if nothing had been down it for years.

timaloy


Joined: 30/06/2011
Posts: 171

Message Posted:
02/01/2012 14:09

in glasgow its called a heatwave

deputydawg


Joined: 30/03/2010
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
02/01/2012 14:23

I lived in Ireland for a few years and wish I had not. I still have webbed feet !

Ballyboffin


Joined: 25/08/2007
Posts: 903

Message Posted:
02/01/2012 18:21

deputy, thats not fair! It only rains here twice a week.....Monday to Thursday and Friday to Sunday !!!

deputydawg


Joined: 30/03/2010
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
02/01/2012 23:50

I thought it was fair comment. One time near Belfast as I got in my car I noticed that there were 4 foot pedals rather than 3. I lifted the carpet in the footwell and found that one pedal was a b.....y great toadstool or mushroom. The roots were in the underlay which was soaking wet with condensation. I thought if I had not been parking in my garage regularly it would probably have been a tree ! The boot had a faster throughflow of water than the River Bann.

paddywack


Joined: 04/05/2009
Posts: 959

Message Posted:
03/01/2012 00:06

I love all these coments about god`s green country

muadib


Joined: 19/11/2010
Posts: 74

Message Posted:
03/01/2012 12:41

Accuweather says we've got 10 days of rain and showers coming,starting thursday