Rain we can handle.
Though I remember a really big rainstorm back when I was working my INTRA placement 2 years ago or so... where a river just outside the office I worked in went from being a 10cm deep trickle of water, to a raging mudfilled torrent that managed to overtop the bank on the far side. That's a rise of about 2 and a bit meters and then some. We were actually worried it'd flood the new building. Nothing stuck with me more than that deep sibilant hiss it made as it rushed passed at a rate of knots, carrying trees, random debris and a part of a house.
Anyway... speaking of idiots on snow, I had the brilliant pleasure today of watching someone try getting a Toyota up a big long hill by simply nailing the throttle, spinning the wheels and slowly sliding up through sheer force of flinging snow backwards. Right until the engine exploded. Was even funnier when the dozy sod kept trying to start it with the crankshaft in pieces on the road. Weather like this doesn't seem to bring out the morons... it just makes them more obvious.
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Though I remember a really big rainstorm back when I was working my INTRA placement 2 years ago or so... where a river just outside the office I worked in went from being a 10cm deep trickle of water, to a raging mudfilled torrent that managed to overtop the bank on the far side. That's a rise of about 2 and a bit meters and then some. We were actually worried it'd flood the new building. Nothing stuck with me more than that deep sibilant hiss it made as it rushed passed at a rate of knots, carrying trees, random debris and a part of a house.
Anyway... speaking of idiots on snow, I had the brilliant pleasure today of watching someone try getting a Toyota up a big long hill by simply nailing the throttle, spinning the wheels and slowly sliding up through sheer force of flinging snow backwards. Right until the engine exploded. Was even funnier when the dozy sod kept trying to start it with the crankshaft in pieces on the road. Weather like this doesn't seem to bring out the morons... it just makes them more obvious.
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