After more than four weeks of constant brutal heat (i mean, man, real heat) it's now raining for a couple of days; but now some really *serious* rain has started:



My hometown, Düsseldorf, is right in the middle where the colour has arrived the upper end of the spectrum...

Doh, i really have to go down to the basement and check if all is ok or if i need to call up the fire-brigade so that they can pump out my cellar...

To complete the topic about the heat: Scientists finally found out that global-warming leds to higher energy demand. See my rant in my blog: http://www.bloglines.com/blog/ITnomad?id=136

Happy swimming,
Alex.

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"I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent
millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it
should be stopped."
-- Simon Cameron, U.S. Senator, on the Smithsonian Institute, 1901.

Strange, I'm in the north of Cologne and we have only lite rain but not really much, the ground still can absorb it. A few lightnings and thunder too, but not so wild either.

I'm not a real Cologne person (and I prefer Alt over Koelsch) so I hope it doesn't get too bad there.

Strange, I'm in the north of Cologne and we have only lite rain but not really much, the ground still can take it. A few lightnings and thunder too, but not so wild either.

It all started in the Niederhein-Area, i friend of mine from Neukirchen-Vluyn told me at 2100CET that his kitchen-sink spits out bad-smelling sewer-water.
I was quite startled cause we just had a bit of rain.
However, it got really bad in the last hour. My cellar is still ok though... (toitoitoi)

I'm not a real Cologne person (and I prefer Alt over Koelsch) so I hope it doesn't get too bad there.

Good for you! :-)
/me stösst mit einem Frankenheim an, *kling*

Good night,
Alex.

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"I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent
millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it
should be stopped."
-- Simon Cameron, U.S. Senator, on the Smithsonian Institute, 1901.

It was 46c here the weekend before last. I would have been happy to get a lot of rain afterwards :) Here being about 2 hours east of Seattle.

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It was 46c here the weekend before last. I would have been happy to get a lot of rain afterwards :) Here being about 2 hours east of Seattle.

Now that is getting hot. I always suspected Seattle had similar weather to Melbourne. I'm getting a bit worried what summer will be like here given we can get in to the 40's in a normal summer.

Worse too, I suppose, Melbourne's reservoirs are down to around 45% full and they told us the (five year) drought had broken!

I guess that's why the poet said, "A land of drought and flooding rains...."

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