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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: johnw on June 12, 2010, 08:51:48 PM
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Thoughts go out to Thomas Huber whose town, Neustadt, has experienced a devastating storm and flood. Hoping for the best for you and your family Thomas.
johnw
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Hear, hear! John... I was shocked to see the level of damage that had been suffered in Thomas' region, with over 1500 lightning strikes in the initial storm and much damage caused by fallen tress of vehicles and fires started by the lightning. The level of flooding is nasty and a great worry , I'm sure.
Hearing also about flood in Arkansas ..... not a great start to summer in the North. :(
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wow! all the best, thomas!
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Thomas, thanks for your email but you know what my German is like! I couldn't find the right thing to click on the website. But from your note it was obvious there were some terrible things happened to you and to Hessen, so please know that I and I'm sure everyone here on the Forum will be thinking of you and your family. I hadn't seen anything of these storms on our news so was quite shocked to hear about it. As John says, our thoughs and hearts go out to you all.
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It was frosty somewhere in Scotland last night! :o
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Thomas I do hope you and your family are safe - flooding is a dreadful thing.
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Here, has been raining and raining and raining and floating
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgsizYUCqVc&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgsizYUCqVc&feature=player_embedded)
today have a brake, full with mosquitoes - I heard even deer was killed by them
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Dear me, Erika, I did not know that the rain and flooding was so bad in Hungary ..... how awful to be affected by that. I hope your family and house is safe..... I guess yes by your garden pictures.... I hope that's right. :-\
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Yes, we live up on the hill side - but, this floating in the Dark Valley, where we usually go for a walk - there is only a small lake, no creek or spring
this water only from the rain!
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In the paper today that so far it's the coldest June since 1961 (the arctic oscillation is to blame), following the coldest winter for just as long... Still not 20C this year, although we are promised 18C today, but back to single figures at the weekend. At least the spring flowers are lasting longer than normal. My little patch of bluebells are now in flower (I saw bluebells in England 7 weeks ago!). This isn't really a moan, as I hate hot weather (>25C is too much for me...)
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Has Thomas Huber come through the storm ok - I have just come on this thread.
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Like you, Pat, I have only just come on this posting and also wonder how Thomas and family are after the flooding.
Has anybody heard from him since the event?
Paddy
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I heard from him a couple of days after the events, but not since then. He'd had his basement flooded twice, but it was drying out. No idea whether there have been more storms there since then though?
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Yes, what Paul said. I too had a private email about the basement of his house flooded twice, and the cleanup pretty horrific but he and the family were OK. I've heard no more since.
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Coming in late of this. I dont watch the news so wasnt aware of devastation in Europe. Has anyone heard from Thomas?
In N Ireland we havent had good prolonged rain for months. I cant tell you when I last had long trousers on or socks and shoes. Shorts and flip flop weather here. Our hottest day so far this year was this week with 26.5C Today is cloudy but the temperature is over 20c
I heard that street trees in Belfast are under pressure because of too much salt over the winter, lack of rain to wash it away, lack of rain, lack of rain to wash away herbicides sprayed around the ground to kill weeds
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Stephen are you playing your swift CD? Any swifts?
N Ireland is having it's hottest spring/early summer since .... sorry I cant remember what was said
Drove through many rain showers today on the way to the orchid walk. The sun soon came out and the temp hit 25.5 dry road on the way home. No rain fell on my garden.
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This is a photo of todays rain
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What a deluge Mark! That's a heck of a big puddle outside your door. ;D ;D ;D
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Stephen are you playing your swift CD? Any swifts?
Strange you should ask as I was about to post about this. I hadn't played it until yesterday because a) I hadn't seen any swifts at all where I live b) there are House Sparrows (another species on the decline) in my swift box (would swifts manage to turf out sparrows?)
Then yesterday I saw a couple of birds circling over the village about 750m away, so I decided to put the CD on. I just put it on my hifi and pointed the speaker out the window and cranked up the volume. First response was a Common Gull, sitting atop a spruce tree, started to alarm. Soon it seemed that all the birds in the garden (pied flycatchers, robins, chiffchaff etc) were also alarming. Not absolutely sure if this was in response to the swift noises as there may have been a cat out there that had started moving in response to the noise. Anyway, within a couple of minutes, the tape had done the trick and the swifts were divebombing the house! However, it was all over in a couple of minutes and the birds disappeared.
Does the speaker have to be placed close to the nest box to succeed?
I continued playing it for some time, but the birds had obviously flown and I was worried that the noise was disturbing my neighbours (the CD just repeats the same sound with short breaks so gets a bit monotonous).
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Sorry for the delay - just came about this thread by coincidence today and decided to disturb my
yearly summer sleep from the forum.
Many thanks to you all for thinking of me. As Lesley and Paul already mentioned me and the family
are OK. My basement was flooded twice, but has been cleaned soon, exept one room where I have
to use a drying machine for the next 4 weeks because the water is in the brickwork and groundfloor.
Here a link to the video from the local TV:
http://www.hr-online.de/website/fernsehen/sendungen/index.jsp?rubrik=57579&key=standard_document_39263223&mediakey=fs/hessenschau/20100611_1930_unwetter&type=v
The first two reports are from the Neustadt area (roadtanker and mud) and the burned down supermarket
is in the Town where Tanja works.
It was only in Neustadt where we had such a hard rain (50ltr in 30 minutes) - all the firebrigades from
a radius of 30km have been here to help us because there were luckily no damages in their own towns
and so we soon got rid of that horrible water and mud.
How much luck the Hubi's had, has been seen when I made a ride with the bike (not possible with the car)
in the morning after the catastrophe - there have been so many friends and neighbours who had more and
much more damage than we had :-[ :'(
By the way: We had a wonderful weekend with sunshine and 28°C and a great party yesterday with my
band in my garden - life always goes on 8) ;D No more rain since the horrible nights 10th and 11th of June.
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That's the response I would expect from the swifts but not the other birds. Just because you dont see swifts doesnt mean they aren't in the area all the time. They are gone in seconds as they fly over. The speaker, a cheap car speaker will do, needs to be beside the nest box. I know it's repetitive but it works. If I had a parabolic microphone I would make my own with longet gaps
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Hey, Thomas! So pleased to hear that the Hubis are fine and that the damage can be fixed.
Happy Summer to you!
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Great to have confirmed Thomas that you and the family are all OK. There's nothing like a good party with music to cheer everyone and keep the spirits up. And it won't be too long until autumn crocuses join in. Keep smiling. :D
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That's the response I would expect from the swifts but not the other birds. Just because you dont see swifts doesnt mean they aren't in the area all the time. They are gone in seconds as they fly over. The speaker, a cheap car speaker will do, needs to be beside the nest box. I know it's repetitive but it works. If I had a parabolic microphone I would make my own with longet gaps
Put "the noise" on again tonight when I spotted 4 swifts circling high above. Again they rapidly descended and divebombed the house to get a closer look, but soon lost interest again (thinking, just another one of those CD impostors ;)). However, soon after four swallows also seemed to be attracted by the sound (I occasionally see swallows, but this is the most this year) - are swallows attracted by the sound of swifts as it may mean a food source? I can't believe that this is just a coincidence...
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just a quick photo from this morning
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Very dramatic, Davey... what time was that?
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Davey, far too early ::)
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4.15 this morning very very early
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4.15 this morning very very early
I thought as much.... I take it you were going gout to work, or perhaps you were just coming home from the night before...... ::)
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It's far too dry.
All my barrels are down to the dregs.
It looks like Friday's forecast rain will miss us...... help!
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We have only had 18ml for June which is supposed to be winter and rain. 1C out the back door at 7am and Jack Frost all over the paddocks.
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Our drought has broken - in my garden anyway. Loads of rain on Monday and the sky open over night. Most of the flowers blown off my roses by the rain and wind