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Wettest ever period in recorded history

POSTED BY: Magonsdaughter
UPDATED: Monday, October 20, 2025 15:56
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CANTTAKESKY

Sunday, January 16, 2011 7:04 PM

Weather radar shows "something" at the same time as the Arkansas blackbird die-off. Watch the video.

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=137071&provider
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So it's something detectable and measurable on radar, and it can cause blunt force trauma.

I followed up on PN's links on the Abu Dhabi rain technology. It's legit. But I don't think the technology as consistent with the bird/fish die-off. It might offer an explanation for the increased rainfall, but there are so many other explanations that are more parsimonious, I don't see the need to resort to this speculation for the floods.

Can't Take (my gorram) Sky
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Everything I say is just my opinion, not fact.

NIKI2

Sunday, January 16, 2011 9:25 PM

Hmmmm...interesting. I caught the bit about witnesses saying the birds were flying low at that time, but who knows?

I know; it's a cloaked Romulan ship. Or the Enterprise back to get another whale...

Go for it, PN...(Has he given us a conspiracy theory for this one yet?)

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Sunday, January 16, 2011 9:28 PM

Who says you can't have fun in the floods.

River rescue as sex toy ditches rider
Thomas Hunter
January 17, 2011 - 6:31AM

A bizarre decision to ride an inflatable doll down a flood-swollen Yarra River blew up in a woman’s face yesterday when she lost her latex playmate in a rough patch.

The incident prompted a warning from police that blow-up sex toys are "not recognised flotation devices’’.

Police and a State Emergency Services crew were called to the rescue when the woman and a man, both 19, struck trouble at Warrandyte North about 4.30pm yesterday.

They were floating down the river on two inflatable dolls and had just passed the Pound Bend Tunnel when the woman lost her toy in turbulent water.

She clung to a floating tree, calling for help while the man stayed with her. Fortunately for the pair, a passer-by called triple zero while while a kayaker took life jackets to the pair. Police and the SES crew hauled the water-logged thrillseekers to safety.
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But, with Queensland in the grip of a deadly emergency and 50 rescues from flood waters around Victoria in the past week, police were not amused at the pair's "stupid" actions.

‘‘We’ve got people busy with rescues and to have to divert resources to that sort of thing is not ideal," said Senior Constable Wayne Wilson

‘‘Most rescue organisations would frown on people behaving in such a manner because there are people out there who are in genuine need of assistance,’’ he said.

The rescued pair were checked by ambulance officers but did not require medical attention.

‘‘The fate of the inflatable dolls is unknown,’’ said Senior Constable Wilson.

NIKI2

Sunday, January 16, 2011 9:38 PM

"not recognised flotation devices"...I love it!

So they weren't fleeing the floods, they were just screwing around? Given both are safe: Served them right, idjits!

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

BYTEMITE

Monday, January 17, 2011 6:17 AM

I'm not sure that we know that for certain. If someone was trying to escape the flood, and saw they had these blow up dolls, and thought they could serve as flotation devices, and their lives were in danger, I can't see that they'd care.

It doesn't say they found either woman or man naked, which, if it's blow up dolls and thrill seeking is more what I would expect. I think maybe they were just plain stigmatized by circumstances, until we know more.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Monday, January 17, 2011 7:09 AM

Byte, you are sweet and innocent. The Yarra is in Melbourne, and although we have some flooding, not catastrophically like the Northern states. These people were just having a laugh.

BYTEMITE

Monday, January 17, 2011 7:26 AM

*cough and hemming and hawing*

CANTTAKESKY

Monday, January 17, 2011 3:28 PM

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Byte, you are sweet and innocent. The Yarra is in Melbourne, and although we have some flooding, not catastrophically like the Northern states. These people were just having a laugh.

I'm not sweet and innocent, but I thought the same thing, that it was a flooding emergency, and they got creative.

Normally, I would say how funny. But considering the rescuers are REALLY busy right now, it's pretty horrible judgment.

Can't Take (my gorram) Sky
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Everything I say is just my opinion, not fact.

NIKI2

Monday, January 17, 2011 8:27 PM

From the article cited, it appeared they were on a lark, and it pissed the rescuers off to be diverted when there were people REALLY needing help. I started to think the same kind of "desperate situation" scenario too, until I read the whole thing. I'm guessing if the rescuers were pissed, they KNEW it was a lark, otherwise they wouldn't have been angry. Just my guess.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

SIGNYM

Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:29 PM

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I also don't see how it could cause the death of those birds and the fish, but there's a lot of seeming inexplicable natural disaster phenomenon going on. At this point I'm willing to entertain some very outlandish theories if it could help make sense of all this.

Why be outlandish? We total almost 7 billion. We've trashed the planet and changed the climate. What's to wonder about???

A few million years from now, assuming another intelligent species arises, they'll be digging down through the rock and come across a strange layer. There will be mercury and lead and cadmium and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and soot and traces of chlorinated and fluorinated compounds everywhere, and evidence of acidified warmed ocean water, and big piles of rust and cementitious materials and strips of bitumen, and a sudden cessation of many species and they will wonder what happened. And someone will propose the outlandish theory that a clever species did this TO ITSELF. Which of course will be laughed down.