4 am cleaning off the car; bkfst with friends, and then picking up some of my boss’s family, and birding. Obviously we could set up the scope on the road, since it was flooded and nobody was going on past this point. Saw many birds, but only one new bird! It always felt good to get back in to the car, to travel to the next site.
TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR causes flooding in Dhaka on Tuesday as 11.4 inches of rain fell in six hours breaking a sixty-year-old record.
Here is my friend, Halim in front of his small room which had water in it at least a foot above the entrance. The next photo is of a cycle trying to decide whether to go through a water-logged intersection. I saw later that he backed up and due to the traffic-jam returned via the sidewalk. He did use his horn so I could get out of his way. Many rickshaws and cycles took to the sidewalks to bypass the jams. The “Daily Star” blames clogged drains and filled up canals for the waterlogging (flooding). Oh by the way, I didn’t crop the heads off of the cycle photo, they were never on the photo.
MONSOON RAINS bring flooding to Dhaka’s city streets. I was in waist deep water getting some of my photos today. Rains from 1-7 AM dropped 11.4 inches (290 mm) of rain for a 60 year record for a six hour period.
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