Thursday 28 July 2011

Campus Cloudburst

A river flows in front of the Agriculture Building

A cascade forms on the steps in the main plaza

The basement of the Agriculture Building was in danger

Today an extremely violent thunderstorm and cloudburst caused flash-flooding and chaos in Niigata City. Ikarashi Campus was totally awash, and in particular the Agriculture Building suffered a close call when drains became inundated or blocked by debris. The rainfall intensities must have been >50mm/hr, but unfortunately the Niigata Amedas rain gauge was unable to obtain any data during the storm.

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