"Steve Thomas" wrote in message
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"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
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Colin Youngs wrote:
"Keith (Southend)" schreef in bericht
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: Almost 500mm of rain in the last two days.

Yes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lhHJnavpyg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6UCIrvM2Js&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJF628oWMVE

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7441945.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7441989.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7441983.stm

Colin Youngs
Brussels

Thanks Colin.

I thought the post hadn't been seen by anyone outside the Southwest
[joke] ;-)

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Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

It was seen by me and I emailed my sister who lives in Hong Kong to see if
it was true. This is her reply:

Yup - 145mm in one hour! Airport motorway blocked/flooded for the first
time ever, taxis with water up to the window level, two people killed when
a roadside wall collapsed on their (illegal) house/hut/shelter in the New
Territories.


That is some rainfall, even in a 12 hour period that would be extreme in the
UK.

Will
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