By It is that time of year again in Korea where you best have a pile of sandbags ready:
Estimators expected to begin assessing flood damage at K-16 Air Base on Wednesday after two days of heavy rain flooded half a dozen buildings with as much as three feet of water.
Ten inches of rain fell Sunday at K-16 by some estimates, flooding two barracks, an administrative facility, a hangar and three other office buildings, said Chuck Markham, Area II director of the Department of Public Works. Eleven soldiers were moved out of their barracks due to flooding, and three non-tactical vehicles also were damaged.
The water receded on Monday, but the base flooded again on Tuesday due to more heavy rain. The rain also flooded a South Korean air base adjacent to K-16, Markham said.
“They said that was the most water they’ve had there in that amount of time in the last 16 years,” he said. [Stars & Stripes]
I’m waiting for someone to say this heavy rain is because of global warming.
7:51 am on July 15th, 2009 1
Wait no more: The rain is caused by Global Warming and USFK…
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July 15th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
It’s Bush’s fault. But he made Cheney be the guy out front…
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9:15 am on July 15th, 2009 2
Chosun Ilbo article from July 15 – Experts attributed the abnormal pattern to climate change. Jin Gee-geom, the chief of the weather forecast bureau of the Korea Meteorological Administration, said, “Global warming makes the weather’s ups and downs very steep.”
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July 15th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
It seems like certain meteorologists will attribute any kind of abnormal weather event to global warming to push their agenda. All the while the article even says that they had a comparable rainfall 16 years ago, and many more pollutants and vehicles have been introduced since that time. According to seasonal climatology and patterns, the Chang-ma front is exactly where it should be…over Korea. While so far this rainy season some locations have exceeded their monthly rainfall averages, they are far from the extreme totals in recorded history. We recorded about 4 inches of rain at Osan last Thursday, another 6.5 inches on Sunday, and about another 6 inches from Monday night through Tuesday. The flooding at Osan has been relatively minor, and not even comparable to the 1990 floods here.
It must be Kim Jong-Il’s doing, after all he is reputed to be able to control the weather……
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9:43 am on July 15th, 2009 3
Time to ask for some food aid, I say.
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4:42 pm on July 15th, 2009 4
North Korea finally developed a weather altering machine
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6:23 pm on July 15th, 2009 5
There was the US demand that the land at Pyeongtaek required $500 million in flood control improvements while the ROK claimed that it was impossible due to the land fill issues — and then the ROK simply refused to talk about it. Later the ROK supposedly agreed. The question that needs to be asked is whether the ROK government actually carried through with their flood control project — or was that just USFK-ROK flim-flam to get the project moving with no real flood control projects ever started? What happened???
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July 15th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Probably nothing happened– the Americans did as much as they could, got their end of tour award and good performance eval, and moved on. The next crew rolls in, picks up the pieces, tries to start over, and we’re here in the ROK for the 59th time, one year at a time…but now maybe for 3 years.
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July 16th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
I got some cool pics if I could post them..
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July 16th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Jeff you can upload and post your pictures over at the ROK Drop Forums:
http://rokdrop.com/forums/
Please do so because I and other readers would probably like to see them.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
I’d like to see those pictures too Jeff. I have a few here from Osan too, nothing that impressive, but still quite a bit of rain fell here too. We also lost quite a few trees with the high winds accompanying some of the storms.