Saw this on a BBC nature/science program (How the Earth Made Us)
state in India the monsoon rain is so heavy, it drops most of the annual 11 metre rainfall in three months...!! (Scotland is wet as heck and we get 1 metre by comparison)
so rope bridges rot fast
thus the local folk make bridges out of living trees!!

like a real life "Avatar", wow :)

http://rootbridges.blogspot.com/

1 METER!   Wow - we are lucky to get 10 inches per year here in San Diego.  Guess we really do live in a desert. 

We had a bad storm last week - blew my fence over and there was lots of high winds and flooding - storm was only about 3 to 5 inches of rain over the 5 days.  :woot: 

I so wish I was a better modeller.......

Peggy
it's so damp here we get "freezing fogs" my absolute MOST hated weather phenomena, lol.
-4C and dense fog. Uuuugh, seeps right into yer bones like nothing else shivers.
But when it persists you get thick hoarfrost coating everything like weird looking ice/slight snowfall, spiders webs are amazing covered in it, so it looks beautiful!

Gill,
hehe yeah that would be horrendous to model ;)
(latest model I'm working on http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/rhino/2010/dragonfly_50.jpg )

Quote - 1 METER!   Wow - we are lucky to get 10 inches per year here in San Diego.  Guess we really do live in a desert. 

We had a bad storm last week - blew my fence over and there was lots of high winds and flooding - storm was only about 3 to 5 inches of rain over the 5 days.  :woot: 

 
As a San Diego native transplanted to Phoenix, I'd love to see 10 inches of rain. 

That storm that blew down your fence only dropped 1.69" of rain here in Metro Phoenix and we ended last year over 5" low.

-4C is t-shirt weather!

-20 to -25C here at the moment depending on time of day. Climate warming where are you!

I thought I was cold but I guess I'm fine. We had +5C in the morning today and +14C at lunch time. :-)
And sunny and bright. :-)

Quote - Peggy
it's so damp here we get "freezing fogs" my absolute MOST hated weather phenomena, lol.
-4C and dense fog. Uuuugh, seeps right into yer bones like nothing else shivers.
But when it persists you get thick hoarfrost coating everything like weird looking ice/slight snowfall, spiders webs are amazing covered in it, so it looks beautiful!

Gill,
hehe yeah that would be horrendous to model ;)
(latest model I'm working on http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/rhino/2010/dragonfly_50.jpg )

That's a really neat looking model.  Like a bug mated with a helicopter!   Not that I need to see any bugs at the moment.  Went to make a coffee while I was watching Relocation,Relocation and almost stepped on an earwig crawling across my kitchen floor EWWWWWWWWWWWW!!

An American friend of mine was unfamiliar with the term 'freezing fog' and she asked me if we needed a knife to cut through it :lol:

Gill,
ta! :) will have it up as freebie in Vue/obj formats when done I hope.
this is a render in Maxwell v1...me wants such renderers for Vue!!!!
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/rhino/2010/dragonfly_30.jpg

only bug that bothers me is australian funnel web spider...suckers are mean! they have this look that says: *"I'm gonna sink these fangs in yer most soft, juicy spots! I'm gonna HAVE YOU!" *
eeek! :p

lol ;)

Anything with more than 4 legs bothers me......

Silverblade, I just saw that episode tonight. Awesome watch! Well worth seeing.

Gill
that's what shotguns were invented for, IMHO :p
or as my cousin's neighbour did on finding her garden over run by the little b*****, pour petrol over the garden and make like "Apocalpyse Now" , muhaha!

Bryster
aye! :) the waterfall in Iceland was gorgeous! try that in Bryce, or Vue or anything ;)

Reminds me of Jasper Carrott sitting on his rotating stool, spotlight strapped to head wealding a 12 bore ! 

BA - BOOM !!!!!
:b_grin:

Gill
lol ages since I saw him on TV doing that skit :p
kind of reminds me of the crazy grounds keeper in "Caddy Shack", using explosives to get the gopher, buhaha!

Yea, first time I saw it, it was funny.   2nd, 3rd and 4th times kind of lost it's 'spray out your coffee' factor......

Haven't seen Caddy Shack. 

OMG you ain't seen "Caddy Shack"?! it's hysterical, you should try and get it :)
BIlly Murray as the mad groundskeeper is a riot ;)

Maybe not.  Most things that peoplefind hilarious these days, I find irritating or just not funny.  Not sure if it's the industry's idea of humour has changed or mine has.  Or maybe they find a formula that's good but keep repeating it?   I found the first series of Moving Wallpaper (almost) pantswettingly funny but the 2nd series was crap.....

They tell me it's Oregon and expect rain and the forests are full of those bridges

Gill
oh it's an old movie from the 80's :)
yeah modern stuff mostly SUCKS sweaty baboon testicles :p

I saw that "Land of the Lost" WIll Ferrel or whatever his name is is as funny as using curry powder sandpaper for loo roll...yeech!! :tt2:

Oh God!  'old movie from the 80's'.... they were new when I watched 'em in the 80's!!!   Mostly Mad Max style the world after the holocaust meets flesh eating zombie type stuff.  All good fun
I'll ask Mr. Brooks about Caddy Shack.  There's not much he hasn't watched in bits if not whole !