One important fact to remark is that Floods could be prevented with a good infrastructure, with subterranean channels and other water engineering procedures. Instead, Heat is not subjected to our control, except treating the Global Warming, but this is a world concern. A sole country by itself cannot fulfill this duty.
Argentina weather
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The storm drains in Buenos Aires, for the large part anyway, are very impressive. Many of them are huge and the local authority where I live are regularly clearing them out with powerful jets of water.
One of the biggest problems is debris and not just plastic bottles and other litter. Most of the streets where we live are lined with huge trees and the biggest problem is with leaves and broken branches.
But this happened the other night...
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In a certain sense, BA has the advantage of being mostly a city with a lot of trees. But trees are good for giving shade and green (and to hide the ugliness of some buildings as well) but their leaves fall, because of the season or because of the heat, and this is a problem. It is necessary a more frequent maintenance of the storm draining devices.
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That good influence of the trees is blatant if you compare the landscape of Brasilia, in 1960, plenty of brand new buidlings of the highest quality but inside a desert plenty of dust and sun everywhere. Now I saw images of Brasilia with the already grown trees, and it looks much more better. However, Brasilia is still a city unfriendly for a pedestrian. Nice places are too scattered and at the enfd you need a car. (problems of the Modern Movement of Bauhaus and Le Corbusier, now very criticized by the academy.
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... Nice places are too scattered and at the enfd you need a car. (problems of the Modern Movement of Bauhaus and Le Corbusier, now very criticized by the academy.
Please explain further, Carlos ? The Le Corbusier and Bauhaus thinking was that buildings should have more space among them rather than the usual tight-packed city density?
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Yes, you understand quite well my uncanny observation. Exactly, the Modern Movement fostered cities completely alien to the traditional ones. They were concerned for hygiene, need of wide spaces with green and solar light, not as the medieval towns of the old Europe. And also for dividing the cities in what the Americans call "Zoning": For work, for entertaining, for dwelling and for circulation and transport.
But later the Modernism was criticized for being so dumb as they did not made urban spaces that could signify anything. They never understood the charm of an Italian Piazza or a small british town in the Cotswolds.
I am attaching an image of those "drawing board cities"
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Very interesting. I would really enjoy taking one of your classes, Carlos . You really add a welcome educational element to the forum. Please continue!
No surprise. It was my preferred job in 49 years of being an architect. But there is no inherent superiority in this ability. Only sweat, time and patience.
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Storm front approaching BsAs.
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Had 10mm of thundery rain this morning around 11am. Now sunny but blustery.
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Bloody Hurricane for about 15 minutes . Very strong winds . Some neighboring houses were damaged
Now just blustery .
Not a lot of rain but I got soaked as I tried to salvage one of my mates newly installed "toldos" - we were able to save the toldo but the metal structure seems pretty damaged.
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Bloody Hurricane for about 15 minutes . Very strong winds . Some neighboring houses were damaged
Now just blustery .
Not a lot of rain but I got soaked as I tried to salvage one of my mates newly installed "toldos" - we were able to save the toldo but the metal structure seems pretty damaged.
That doesn't sound too good. Amazing how localised some of these storms are. It went really dark here and although the wind howled for a minute I've experienced a lot worse. I suspected people elsewhere were getting it bad.
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Where we re there are about 500 plots of land but only about 80 houses built.
So when it blows , there is nowhere to hide.
One of the new places about 200m away has just finished the wooden supports of a sloping roof. Unfortunately they will have to start again tomorrow...
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So sorry about all that damage. I hope our forum references to Dorothy and Toto didn’t bring it on.
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The winds when these storms arrive are scary. We have gouge marks on the outside of the house when stone debris from the house next door was torn off and hurled by a tornado like wind. You would have been a goner had one of them hit you in the head.
We got flooded about nine years ago when 100mm of rain fell inside an hour and the outside drain couldn't handle it. Thankfully only parts of the house that had tiled floors got it so it was just a case of mopping it up. The rooms with wooden floors including the bedrooms escaped....and I used to think the weather in Scotland was bad.
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UK Man , if any of our fellow posters lived where we used to live , they would never complain about anything in their lives......
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UK Man , if any of our fellow posters lived where we used to live , they would never complain about anything in their lives......
Indeed. This current spell we're having just now is fabulous for 'autumn'. A BBQ is on the cards for the weekend.
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