Somaliland Rain Appreciation Thread

[Alpha Blondy]

rained heavily today but over a short period of time (8mins or less, i reckon). mashallah.

[Alpha Blondy]

it's raining right now for the 2nd time today. rained early this afternoon and lasted for 15mins.

[Haatu]

Alpha, it it meant to rain this part of the year or is Climate Change at play here? Does it rain in the Xagaa season?

[Alpha Blondy]

LIVE and EXCLUSIVE from the nation's capital, y'all.

 

you've guess it....its RAINING right now in real time (18:27).

 

AWESOME stuff. it started slowly but now it's increasing it's speed, intensity and velocity. mashallah.

[Alpha Blondy]

Haatu;973277 wrote:

Alpha, it it meant to rain this part of the year or is Climate Change at play here? Does it rain in the Xagaa season?

abti,

 

climate changes affects industrialised countries, ma garatay? although, i wouldn't be surprised, if it's reached here in the form of acid rain, air pollution and other related toxins. i'm not one to believe in conspiracy theories, balse, i reckon climate change is a way of changing the discourse on economic development. this is deliberately to impede the development of developing countries and emerging markets. caadi maha all this talk about ''carbon footprints'' and ''ozone layer depletion'' etc.

 

the rains starts on the 22nd of March every year, abti. at first i was like 'how specific, ma istidhi?', you know. but it's true walahi. the British colonial masters rightly predicted the start of the rains and it's the one thing we all agree on. we also ALL agree on another innately residual vestige of our British legacy - Somaliland . the rains last for 6 months approx and end around October-ish. it's usually sporadic towards the end, balse, it didn't rain beyond November last year. then...... from November to March 22nd approx, it's awful. it's cold, it's dusty, it's not evergreen anymore and produce like lettuce and all sorts of mild salads are very EXPENSIVE all of a sudden. not nice at all. :cool:

 

be that as it may, we are all enjoying the bounties of the All-Mighty and we are mashAllah for now.

[Alpha Blondy]

it's been raining for the last 15 mins. somewhat sporadically.

[Suldaanka]

 

If it continues to rain in Xagaa, my old man tells me, it is considered barwaaqo for that year.

[Alpha Blondy]

^ barwaaqo galore more like.

 

inaar, it's been raining non-stop for the last 20mins. heavy rains as well. this is madness.

[Alpha Blondy]

it's very close to raining today. since the 22nd of March, the rains have been disappointed. i'm fairly confident it'll rain today. all the signs are there.

 

 

 

[Tallaabo]

^ I am praying for it. I am aware this gu season was a bit disappointing.

[Ciyaal Facili]

This Tower Pulls Drinking Water Out of Thin Air

 

 

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-tower-pulls-drinking-water-out-of-thin-air-180950399/?no-ist

 

Why can't they harvest the rainwater,the Hargeisa administrators

 

A simple calculation

if you collect rainwater from your own roof or whatever- a 30xm wide x 50m long has surface area 1500m2. for every (0.025m) that falls it will drain 37500 litres of rainwater, imagine if you could that in one acre!!. if you get (0.8m) of rain in a year , from the roof it will yield 1,200,000 litres. this could be worth £2200 here in Uk.

 

the cost

 

50000 litre tank with liner, anti algae cover and outlet and overflow will cost you £2-500, normally the tank installation pays for itself in 3-5 years.

 

southeastern water company in Uk they will charge you £1.6065 for 1 cubic M or 1000 liter

 

here in Uk annual water usage per person is 54 cubic metres or 50000 liter

 

for farmers dairy

if you are a dairy farm with 100 dairy cow in full lactation indirectly uses 100 liters of water/day for drinking, for parlour washdown, yard cleaning, general washing and etc

 

so for every 100 cows the reuiqrement is 10000 litres/day. that's 3,650,000 litre or put another way its close to £7000, here in UK My main point is, Lets harvest the The White gold-

[SomaliaRising]

i love maamulka Waqooyi Galbeed

[Tallaabo]

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i love maamulka Waqooyi Galbeed

Please don't call in cidansultan and your other fellow trolls. Akhaati billaahi ayaanu idinka taagannahay.

[Alpha Blondy]

they did the roob salat this morning. sadly i missed the ''salaada roobdoonta''. i would've gone honestly but i slept in because it was the weekend.

[Ciyaal Facili]

Smarter urban water: how Spain's Zaragoza learned to use less

 

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/30/zaragoza-smarter-urban-water-zaragoza-spain-learned-to-use-less

 

Smarter urban water: why Melbourne needed to catch and store

 

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/30/melbourne-smarter-urban-water-why-melbourne-needed-to-catch-and-store