There is talk of tornados now too, so you never know, earlier this year we had a downburst near here in the southern california desert, knocked down trees and power poles and gas station shelters over several miles. This is at a 3000 ft elevation, where most of the storms don't reach, because of mountains in the way. The downburst had hurricane force winds, from a summer thunderstorm. Jim Muth wrote:
At 09:53 PM 9/16/03 -0700, John Wilson wrote:
Ah, now I understand! Jim, what you call a basement, (which is perennially full of water), we other folk call "a WELL"!
John W.
It was a paradoxical situation, being located 50 feet below the top of a 250-foot hill and having a wet basement. Fortunately, the problem has been solved for over a year. The culprit was, and probably still is, a partially blocked basement drain pipe. Normally, the pipe worked as it should and drained away any water that happened to get onto the floor. But in very heavy rain, the drain backed up into the basement, sometimes leaving 4 inches of water. I solved the problem by driving a wooden plug into the drain. I have no idea where the backed-up water goes nowadays. It's not my problem. BTW, the hurricane watch for the local area has just been changed to a storm watch, so the fractals should continue uninterrupted.
Jim M.
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