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Raindrops keep falling on my head

One of the questions at the Galway Camera Club table quiz was "If two rainbows appear together, are the colours of the second one in reverse order; True or False?" Our table got that question wrong, and I got drenched learning the answer the hard way yesterday morning. Taken on the road to Leenaun early yesterday morning.

NASA think they've just found flowing water on Mars. Well, there's no shortage of it here on Earth - at least in this neck of the woods.

All the local papers have the same story :- it has rained for 29 days solid, and there's no end in sight. Twenty inches of rain fell in the months of September, October and November. Most of east and south Galway (and a goodly part of Mayo) is submerged; rivers are engorged, and sunlight is in short supply. A trip to a turlough in East Galway today had to be abandoned because of a river flowing onto the country road I was on - the water looked to be 2 feet deep.

Yesterday was no different; hail was frozen to the car when I got up, heavy showers pelted down on and off during the day, and the temperature dropped sharply as the day progressed. Today, it just rained, and rained, and rained.

Camera= Canon 350D, lens= Sigma 10-20@10mm, ISO=100, aperture=f5.6, speed=1/100 sec.

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Posted by Monasette at December 10, 2006 08:41 PM