Floods & Landslides

Rain theory

With all this rain worldwide, you'd think meteorologists would have an explanation for the escalating amounts coming down.

So, the sun is the first explanation. And that might seem obvious and no other explanation is necessary.

But with other strange happenings, like world pandemics, loud noises in the atmosphere, sink holes, ect. And the permafrost melt and methane release threat...

Maybe it's the methane threat we been hearing warnings from the scientists about. And the thing about what they warn us about, they don't go into how this methane release actually manifests. They mostly are inclined to advise governments and not go into what will actually take place.

So, I remember a old man telling us youngsters about natural gas... he said you don't really need to pipe the natural gas exhaust outside for fear of poisoning, because it burns clean. You pipe it out the chimney because it creates moisture.

So, that could explain the rains. And as well, with permafrost melting, landmasses settle, and so we'd witness cities settling, ect. making what is going on seem biblical, but it is a combination of factors stacked on another: ice melt, rain from methane, earth sinkage, even erosion escalating the whole matter.

It would make sense that permafrost can sustain for so long after an ice age, because it is insulated by earth and where does cold go? It sinks. Heat rises. Cold sinks. As well, when water freezes, it expands. When it melts, the earth settles.

So, that's my theory about the rains. And we are left to figure it out for ourselves, lest we seem alarmist. And our civilisation is in the midst of it all - with most of the populations near water, and that furthers the necessity of discretion.
 
I was speculating more on the rains and have a additional theory. It is just speculation and amateur, but I thought I'd share it.

We are having a lot of meteors, comets, ect. and some are explained as passing through the tail of comets. Isn't every celestial object that orbits a comet? So, planetary scale bodies have tails too - rather, they are ring shaped and what we acknowledge is the main body, but the entirety is the body, plus its orbit - making it ring shaped. And as we revolve around the sun, we create a atmospheric trail that we re-encounter every revolution. As the sun heats up, this heating changes the composition of our tail, and during a heating phase, our orbit is charged with our atmospheric discharge, that acts as a cosmic precipitator, where space ice is created, making some comets, meteors possible. And as the sun heats, it charges the ring of our orbit with water, and after build up, and cooling, it condenses into a great flood event, and ice age.

And we could enter into the tail of other cosmic bodies and this would occur, but I'm speculating it is our own earth body, and there is a cosmic climatic mechanism which is tied to our orbital property.

So, earth, orbit, heating, cooling... the orbit acts as a reserve and upon cooling, the effect amplified and flooding and ice age ensue.

Sorry if it doesn't make sense. I just wanted to explain the Noahs ark story and recent deluges in a theory to explain what occurs. It could be complete nonsense, but we are left to our imaginings to make sense of it.
 
Today, earlier this morning, a landslide happened in Gjerdrum, Norway, normally a low hazard risk zone.
Hopefully, noone here was impacted.

source: Gjerdrum: a quick clay landslide disaster in Norway this morning - The Landslide Blog - AGU Blogosphere

#C

It was a big one!

A landslide has smashed into a residential area near the Norwegian capital, injuring at least 10 people, leaving 21 unaccounted for and destroying several homes.

Some 700 people have been evacuated amid fears of further landslides.

Norwegian police were alerted at 4am Wednesday (local time) to the slide in the village of Ask, in the municipality of Gjerdrum, some 20km northeast of Oslo.

The area where Ask is located is known for having a lot of so-called quick clay, which can change from solid to liquid form. There have been previous landslides reported there.


There was another huge landslide in the north of Norway in June:


Something is disturbing the quick clay layer in some areas. Geological or volcanic activity?

Iceland has presented similar phenomena during the past months too.
 
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - It’s hard to take your eyes off of. A 50-feet-wide, 130-feet-deep sinkhole has reopened right next to a restaurant and a housing community off Little Road and State Road 54 -- and it has been a problem for months.

It was initially labeled as a depression when the ground opened up back in October.
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Incredible volumes of precipitation continues to stun the general population and take it's toll.


BY CALEB JACOBS JULY 1, 2021

It might've taken just an hour to get more than an inch of rain, but the clean-up could take weeks.

Normally, it doesn't rain much at Zion National Park this time of year; according to the park's official site, the average amount of precipitation is only 0.3 inches for the month of June. It caused problems, then, when over an inch fell in just one hour on Tuesday, leaving roads, parking lots, and buildings caked in feet of mud near Zion's main entrance. Clean-up efforts began the next day and according to the folks working there, it could be a weeks-long project.

Zion is recognizable for its canyons and lofty hiking trails, and off-roaders love its tricky terrain that's usually covered in dirt, sand, and rocks. When all that gets wet, though, it starts sliding downhill and trapping parkgoers in the truest representation of a flash flood.

Videos of the carnage went viral as people shot one clip after another of the muddy water rushing through the area. Cars were carried by the swift current, bashing into each other and anything else along the way. Local news outlets interviewed out-of-towners who planned to visit just for the day, though their stay was promptly extended when they couldn't back their cars out of the muck.

The local crew from Casey's Off-Road Recovery was tapped to come in and help clear roughly 150 vehicles. They posted footage of the job to YouTube and sent a handful of other snippets to The Drive, showing the mess that had vehicles buried up to their floors. It took plenty of shovel work and heavy equipment to get them out, but that was only the start.


Now that more volunteers have turned up with hefty front-end loaders, skidsteers, and the like, it's clear that the park's transportation infrastructure is severely damaged. Roads were broken into chunks by the flooding while sidewalks buckled and many areas have been closed off to vehicle traffic. There's still more damage being discovered throughout the park, though they luckily avoided another flash flood on Wednesday after the risk was labeled as "probable" by the National Weather Service.

Some businesses are, understandably, choosing to close their doors rather than pay huge sums of money to restore facilities back to normal. Cable Mountain Lodge and Zion Campfire Lodge took on a bulk of the damage, and the latter will be torn down before long.

As for the roads and off-road trails, it'll be a work in progress for weeks and potentially months to come.




Got photos or firsthand accounts of the Zion National Park flash flood? Contact the author directly: caleb@thedrive.com



GREELEY, Colo. (CBS4) – The National Weather Service says 3 to 4 inches of rain fell in Greeley in a one hour period early Thursday afternoon. A Flash Flood Warning was in effect for south sentral Weld County at the time and most of Colorado’s Front Range remains in a Flash Flood Watch Thursday afternoon and evening.

Anne Giles Delaney of the Greeley Tribune found water rushing down the road at 11th Avenue and 13th Street.
Flash flood warning in effect in Greeley this afternoon and we had heavy rain and a lot of water on 11th Avenue and at the intersection with 13th Street. #cowx #coloradoweather @NWSBoulder pic.twitter.com/s0pygZyKRc
— Anne Giles Delaney (@AnneGDelaney) July 1, 2021
Casey Hutchins captured video of standing water outside the Weld County Health Department in a parking lot. That’s at 17th ave and O Street.
17th Avenue and O Street in Greeley 😳 #COwx pic.twitter.com/ZoGFaM8Vvs
— Casey Hutchins (@casehutch) July 1, 2021

The NWS office in Boulder tweeted “Heads up Greeley! Radar and rain gauge observations show up to 3-4″ of rain in the last hour! We’re starting to see reports of street flooding and stalled vehicles.”

Heads up Greeley! Radar and rain gauge observations show up to 3-4" of rain in the last hour! We're starting to see reports of street flooding and stalled vehicles. If you come across flooded roadways, Turn Around, Don't Drown! #cowx pic.twitter.com/JGf7xrCvlt
— NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder) July 1, 2021

Earlier in the day the NWS sent out a warning about the dangers of flash flooding. They say 6 inches of fast moving water can knock over and carry away an adult and 12 inches of fast moving water can carry away a small car. When you’ve got 18 to 24 inches of fast moving water, that can carry away most large SUVs, vans and trucks.

RELATED: What Is The North American Monsoon, Which Leads To Heavy Rainfall In Colorado?
 
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Up to 20 missing after powerful landslide ploughs through houses due to heavy rain in Japan (VIDEO)

Several homes were destroyed by a landslide amid torrential rain in the city of Atami in the Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. With around 20 people missing, officials have called in the army for help.

A video posted on social media shows a powerful flood sweeping away several houses on hilly terrain. A fire truck is seen driving away from the flood, while a firefighter runs for his life.
 
Landslide in the city of Atami (熱 海). Happened this morning. About 20 people are missing.
Incredible volumes of precipitation: "Lightning strikes on Endless rain".

Due to the influence of the Baiu front, in Shizuoka Prefecture and southern Kanto, the rainfall from the beginning of the rain on the 30th to 10 pm on the 4th was 836 mm in Hakone Town, Kanagawa Prefecture, and 417 mm in Amiyo, Atami City. It was a record heavy rainfall that exceeded the monthly rainfall.

The amount of rainfall in the 24 hours until the evening of the 5th is expected to be 150 mm in the Tokai and northern Kyushu regions, 120 mm in the Hokuriku and Chugoku regions, and 100 mm in the Kinki region.

After that, the amount of rainfall in the 24 hours until the evening of the 6th is expected to be 50 to 100 mm in the Hokuriku and Chugoku regions.

This is a video taken from outside the regulation line set by the police by an NHK reporter on National Highway No. 135 in the Izusan district of Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture, where a debris flow occurred. You can see the earth and sand flowing down the road and the green roof of the house collapsed and lying in the middle. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20210703/k10013118051000.html… #nhk_video

"A low pressure moving along the southern coast of Japan has caused storms to train for a few days," said AccuWeather Meteorologist Thomas Geiger.

"Training" is when thunderstorms form in the same place over and over again in a short period of time. It is like the cars of a train, where one follows the other, moving over the same location as the last.

Training thunderstorms produce tremendous rainfall over relatively small areas leading to flash flooding, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

Attached to the low pressure, a front set up over Japan for several days this week, producing heavy rainfall, according to AccuWeather Meteorologist Robert Richards. The front was slow moving, leading to significant flooding and mudslides.
 

What remains of the Angleur hydroelectric power station ...#liege#inondations
@lesoir

Impressive aerial image [before / after] of the German municipality of #Altenahr located in the Land of Rhineland-Palatinate in the west of the country. River #Ahr , who got out of bed during the night, is experiencing a historic flood!#Schuld#Allemagne#Floods

[DIRECT]#Inondations in #Allemagne : the provisional toll rises to 20 dead, "50 to 70 people missing" according to the Minister of the Interior of Rhineland-Palatinate. 200,000 homes are without electricity ...
@LCI

desolation this morning on waking in the surrounding villages and towns… .. never seen more than 100mm in 2 days up to 160 in places! on the set at home it's "less worse" but the cultures we took a hell of a blow the #moisson21 promises to be difficult and it's not over
 
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