Rain, Rain and More Rain

[ju10prd]

This was the Rio Haina north of the capital presumably near where the San Cristobel road crosses a low bridge just off Autopista Duarte turn between Villa Altagracia and Piedro Brand (lovely drive in normal conditions lol)

[video=youtube_share;dRFNbeYccsk]https://youtu.be/dRFNbeYccsk[/video]

 

[ju10prd]

ju10prd,

I mentioned New York because I am currently visiting here, and the temps on Friday and Saturday were in the high 80's. Today it maxed out in the high 50's. 30 degree temp drop. Climate change?
And due to the temp drop, you are incorrect again, it's not beer talk, but rather coffee talk. Too chilly for beer, although a good Merlot would be nice right around now. Have a nice night.

So why do you talk about folks in colmados saying this is nothing unusual if you are in New York?

If were are in DR you will know this April rainfall is unusual.

 

[ju10prd]

217.9mm recorded in Samana yesterday. Monthly April average is 65mm. This doesn't surprise me after the continuous very heavy rainfall from late afternoon all through the night. And explains the flooding in Samana town in the video.

https://www.diariolibre.com/noticia...-gran-parte-del-territorio-nacional-EG6967622

 

[alexw]

I wonder what the monthly rainfall is in the capitol. Im telling you it has rained all day since Easter(semana santa).

 

[ju10prd]

I wonder what the monthly rainfall is in the capitol. Im telling you it has rained all day since Easter(semana santa).

55/60mm average in April

On 23rd April alone parts of SD will have had about that alone based upon the rainfall graphic already posted in this thread OP.

 

[alexw]

55/60mm average in April

I mean this this current month of April. Its been way more than 60mm

 

[cavok]

In my ten years here, I don't ever recall hearing(and seeing) so much severe flooding over so many parts of the country as we've had in the past six months. Let's hope we don't have any hurricanes or tropical storms this season.

 

[sanpedrogringo]

So why do you talk about folks in colmados saying this is nothing unusual if you are in New York?

If were are in DR you will know this April rainfall is unusual.

This is solely submitted to answer your question, as I do not wish to engage in a back and forth with you, and already wished you a good evening. I stated I am visiting New York right now. I live in San Pedro. I have lived in the Dominican Republic for ten years. San Pedro de Macoris and San Juan de la Maguana. I am not a tourist. I am not a snowbird. I am not a weekend warrior. I do not live in an ex-pat community. So yes, in my ten years in the Dominican Republic, I have relied on information from Dominicans. I believe they know and understand their own country, but maybe that's just me. As far as knowing what is going on in DR when I am not there, do you not know what occurs where you live when you are not there? If so, that's your business. In my life, I do. I communicate with people in San Pedro on a daily basis, several times per day (WhatsApp is great), as well as watch the news broadcasts from DR....SIN and Telemicro which are broadcasted here in New York (DirecTV), and the local San Pedro newsfeeds through the internet. Hey, I can multi-task. Is this the time of the year for higher rainfall amounts? Yes. Is it more than usual? In some parts of the country, yes. Not the entire country. No need for hysterics. Again, ask a local what they think. I'm sorry I interrupted your personal blog. Again, have a nice night.

 

[Mauricio]

This was the Rio Haina north of the capital presumably near where the San Cristobel road crosses a low bridge just off Autopista Duarte turn between Villa Altagracia and Piedro Brand (lovely drive in normal conditions lol)

[video=youtube_share;dRFNbeYccsk]https://youtu.be/dRFNbeYccsk[/video]

Ehh...the video is from sept 2008.

 

[sanpedrogringo]

In my ten years here, I don't ever recall hearing(and seeing) so much severe flooding over so many parts of the country as we've had in the past six months. Let's hope we don't have any hurricanes or tropical storms this season.

See Chirimoya's post #12 which makes reference to deforestation and the extraction of sand and gravel from riverbeds. This is a daily occurrence throughout the country that does not get the proper amount of media attention, or government protection/enforcement that it deserves. This coupled with non-existent infrastructure in some areas, poor/outdated infrastructure in other areas, as well as the failure of the government to modernize this infrastructure by 2017 standards provides you with the results and images you see in some locations. Rain, flooding, and even mudslides, are not new to the Dominican Republic.

 

[sanpedrogringo]

This was the Rio Haina north of the capital presumably near where the San Cristobel road crosses a low bridge just off Autopista Duarte turn between Villa Altagracia and Piedro Brand (lovely drive in normal conditions lol)

[video=youtube_share;dRFNbeYccsk]https://youtu.be/dRFNbeYccsk[/video]

By the way, it's 2017. By the looks of this video, I guess it was raining hard in 2008 as well. How about 1998? That was Hurricane Georges. Good job.

 

[cobraboy]

This was the Rio Haina north of the capital presumably near where the San Cristobel road crosses a low bridge just off Autopista Duarte turn between Villa Altagracia and Piedro Brand (lovely drive in normal conditions lol)

[video=youtube_share;dRFNbeYccsk]https://youtu.be/dRFNbeYccsk[/video]

That video is date stamped Sept. 7, 2008.

So history is repeating itself.

 

[cobraboy]

In my ten years here, I don't ever recall hearing(and seeing) so much severe flooding over so many parts of the country as we've had in the past six months. Let's hope we don't have any hurricanes or tropical storms this season.

I've been here nine years and remember other periods of rain and flood damage.

I also remember droughts when we'd sell our mother to the Arabs for some rain.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

That does not mean the weather can't be serious and frustrating. But I never lived anywhere in my entire life that weather didn't set some kind of extreme record during the year.

 

[cavok]

I've been here nine years and remember other periods of rain and flood damage.

I also remember droughts when we'd sell our mother to the Arabs for some rain.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

That does not mean the weather can't be serious and frustrating. But I never lived anywhere in my entire life that weather didn't set some kind of extreme record during the year.

I do, too. But like I said, I don't ever remember there being such severe flooding in so many parts of the country in just six months. By all accounts, the flooding on the North Coast in November was a 50 year flood. All the major routes from the north coast were severley damaged along with the bridges in Jamao and Imbert. POP was under 2 feet of water.

None of that has ever happened in the 10 years I've been here. I'm sure there has been flooding here somewhere in the DR every year but, again, never so much in so many places in only 6 months.

Since then and along with that, we've had severe flooding in Las Terrenas, Samana, the northwest Monte Cristi area, Santiago, Moca, La Vega, San Cristobal, and other areas I'm sure I've missed.

If the government has figures on damage due to flooding, I'm sure that the past six months is one for the record books.

 

[beeza]

I think this is down to el nino / la nina (sp)  We had an el nino summer last year and now we are seeing the effects of la nina.  The cycles are around 5 years.

But the tropical weather is not very dynamic at the moment, so when there is an area of low pressure bringing lots of rain with it, it tends to stay a while.

 

[jd426]

So why do you talk about folks in colmados saying this is nothing unusual if you are in New York?

If were are in DR you will know this April rainfall is unusual.

Its been raining since SEPT //// everyone knows that ..
and how do you arrive at such assumptions that someone visiting NY a brief while suddenly does not know what is going on in the DR ? , esp since they in Fact LIVE in the DR for almost a Decade , and are just visiting NYC ?
When exactly does someone have enough " DR Street Cred " up in here ?

just wow ..

interesting thread though ... and thank you for the videos..

 

[Peterj]

Time to contact the Dutch, they can prevent these problems....although not cheap but it will be quality work.

..and while they are here, ask them to take care of the beaches too...

 

[Peterj]

Time to contact the Dutch, they can prevent these problems....although not cheap but it will be quality work.

..and while they are here, ask them to take care of the beaches too...

[video=youtube;OWO677yU47Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWO677yU47Y[/video]

 

[Peterj]

[video=youtube;z75fqfp37KI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z75fqfp37KI[/video]

 

[Celt202]

Can the political goons go back to OT and talk about global warming there and take the posts about New York and Canada with them.

This thread is about the massive unusual climatic conditions (for April) and rainfall in DR now and the overflowing rivers damage to crops, turbidity of crestful rivers making the normal outfall water collection impossible. http://hoy.com.do/crecidas-de-rios-...-acueductos-abastecen-agua-parte-del-gran-sd/

I saw the aftermath of the flooding in Samana this morning, the crop damage to the lower Yuna and the temporary embankments, then the overflowing river over the autopista.

Maybe other posters who live and travel in DR will have similar reports of the massive rainfall and flooding effects.

Anybody who has been out and about in DR recently and away from their computer screen will know it has been incredibly wet even for the Caribbean at extremes.

If you bring up the junk science of man made global warming you're wading into the political. Then you want to tell people who respond to shut up.

It doesn't work that way.