Aphelion

ente per ente wrote:Here some videos many people put on youtube to show the unprecedented ( actually, it already happened in 1970, too...) rain that hit the town where I work in Italy last yesterday at noon...

The deluge...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM6ki1xw ... r_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9J0WyX_VrU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy0xwazRwnI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5fQyPqhggg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNSDVTn1F0M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IUOI_xg62M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nt8-jnriMs


Actually, the skyscraper where I work, in the distance, as follows, was almost surrounded by the water, but it only reached a small height- more or less 30 cm. with no consequences at all...- while most of the damages occurred in the background, in the suburbs near the mountains and next to one of the town rivers, along with some dead and destruction...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR06V8Wj5Kk&NR=1

All was caused by a sort of deluge with heavy rain which lasted no longer than 20 minutes...

By luck, the only damages the friends I know around had were some loss of out-of-date and rare scale models put into one of the laboratory- shops owned by two modellers of my Club, along with some old military- themed magazines and books, in a way...