barrelmaker
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Registered: Sep 2008
Location: West Alexandria, Ohio
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It's happening
I'm currently working in Ohio and will be here a few years but I've made my home in Thailand since 1990. Ten years ago my wife and I built a home in a development that had never had water problems. Last year and again this year my home has been flooded, expensive to say the least, it cost me over $10,000 last year to clean, kill the mold, repaint, etc. and will again this year.
All the rivers in southeast Asia originate in the Himalayas, with the glaciers and snow caps melting at an increased rate, the rivers are full of water before the annual rainy season even starts. Consequently, the heavy rains from August thru October cause the rivers to overflow into areas previously dry, the area where I live had not been flooded since they began recording over a hundred years ago.
Whether it's man made or a natural occurance I don't know but the earth is definitely warming, some of the atolls in the Pacific are already underwater and hundreds more will be if the trend continues as expected.
Tom Humphrey
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