Gordon Brown toured the drenched areas by helicopter, and this time the prime minister referred explicitly to climate change, giving warning that predicted alterations in weather patterns meant vital infrastructure might have to be moved to higher ground.
Farmyards, corrals, stock pens, drenching areas, runs, etc. should all be out-of-bounds to children unless they are helping you under direct supervision.
No deaths or serious injuries were reported after the storm, which drenched the area in 13 inches of rain Monday night and early yesterday, but meteorologists were awed.
Although most of Indonesia is in the midst of its annual dry season, the floods came after days of heavy rains that had drenched the area.
No deaths or serious injuries were reported after the storm, which drenched the area in 13 inches of rain Monday night and early Tuesday.
Kerr, the No. 1 golfer in the world, was one of the leaders in the clubhouse Friday afternoon at one over par when the second round was called because of a thunderstorm that drenched the area.
Thick, swirling, gray bands from Hurricane Isaac drenched broad areas of crop country, from Arkansas through Missouri to Illinois, with two to eight inches of rain.
The US also drenched vast areas of south-east Asian jungle with the chemical defoliant Agent Orange, which reportedly killed thousands, during the Vietnam War.
The weather system has now weakened into a trough of low pressure but continues to drench the area.
Lacking the labor and tree inventory to stem this possibility, forest keepers resort to a stopgap measure: use helicopters to drench the area in herbicides to kill weeds, then saturate it with fast-growing cheatgrass or the like.
