Re: Available consultant Vijay for Unix System Admin with sun Solories Expireance.

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.admin, in article
<irmdnTIn98A8lxHVnZ2dnUVZ_gWdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert Melson wrote:

The Las Cruces Sun-News reports that a passenger in a sport utility
vehicle was killed when the vehicle hit a large puddle and rolled over.
The driver and two children were hospitalized.

Sigh... As mentioned, this is why we have the "Stupid Law".

National Weather Service meteorologist says some areas of El Paso have
gotten as much as 3 inches of rain.

How much time? My logs show 2.95 inches in a 24 hour period (average of
three rain gauges) back in 1999, and several incidences of > 2.0 inches
as well.

The worst rainfall rates I've ever seen were when I was doing some
equipment testing for ACTIV (Army Concept Team In Vietnam) in the
late 1960s in Da Nang. We had set up the equipment on the grassy
area between the patio at the Navy O'club and the "river", and it was
coming down like no tomorrow (typhoon). I put a pair of tumblers out
on the table, and timed it for ten minutes - 1 3/16 inch, or about 7
inches/hour.

The city says it has received 17 reports of flooding in homes. There
are 10 reports of street flooding.

Street flooding is fairly common. In _most_ cases, the grading around
houses is enough to divert the water around the house.

The Texas Transportation Department says the Trans Mountain Highway is
closed due to rock slides caused by the rain and is expected to reopen
Saturday night.

(Trans Mountain Highway is a city arterial but not the major
through corridor.

State route 375 if Rand McNally is to be believed. Yeah, I can see why
you might have problems there.

The rock slides are, IMNSHO, due to poor engineering of the cuts
through which portions of the roadway run, failure to stabilize same.
Result == closure at least hint of inclement weather, precip.)

Well, it doesn't rain that often... We have similar problems, and
probably for the same reason. Areas up in the hill country seem to get
it because they're skimping on maintenance because of more pressing
needs elsewhere. We're also running into problems where there have been
wild fires that burn off the ground cover that sorta stabilizes the
soil. We also run into the problem that when a highway outside of the
metro areas closes for any reason, detours are usually quite arduous
and lengthy because of the dearth of paved roads able to handle the
traffic.

Today set a rainfall record for the date - officially ~2.75 inches
at the official station, previous record ~2.6 in. Prior to June 30
we'd had 0.23 in since Jan 1. Since then we've had ~5 inches and
are now about 2 inches above 30 year average.

That certainly isn't helping matters. We were supposed to see some of
that moisture, but all I've seen are high clouds. There have been some
light shows, but little rainfall in the area.

Soggy Ol' Bob

No problem - you'll dry out soon enough.

Old guy
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