Nobody noticed the mistake I made. I should have written tornadoes, not
hurricanes. We don't have hurricanes, thank goodness. (More correctly
still, what we are now calling tornados are actually termed "funnel
clouds".) Nevertheless . . . .
At 00:49 28/05/2013, REH wrote:
Keith, are the houses stronger in England or are the winds gentler? I
like to see how an English Manor would do with an Oklahoma Tornado.
. . . . . an English Manor House, with 2ft wide thru-brick or -stone walls
would lose its roof tiles no doubt, but not its roof timbers (typically 9"
x 4" and jointed into uprights, not nailed. [I doubt whether Oklahoma roof
timbers are more than 6" x 3/4" from what photos I saw of them -- just the
same as most modern houses in England.] )
Keith
REH
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At 15:46 27/05/2013, you wrote:
Was that period about the onset of the "little ice age" in Europe?
Mighty big cricket balls.
D.
I wondered about that, too. But the Little Ice Age was only beginning to
work up at around 1500/1600. And only in Europe,too. These cricket
ball-hailstones were probably the result of Indian trade winds causing
giant cumulus clouds on the flanks of the Himalayas to recirculate often
enough internally to sustain the weight of increasingly heavy hailstones.
QUESTION: Which country has more hurricanes every year: US or UK? The
answer is the latter. We get whipped by three major wind systems which
meet as often as not -- from the Atlantic, from the Arctic southerly, from
the Arctic easterly via an even colder Siberia.
Keith
On 26/05/2013 7:36 PM, michael gurstein wrote:
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In 1942 a British forest guard in Roopkund, India made an alarming
discovery. Some 16,000 feet above sea level, at the bottom of a small
valley, was a frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons. That summer, the
ice melting revealed even more skeletal remains, floating in the water and
lying haphazardly around the lake's edges. Something horrible had happened
here.
The immediate assumption (it being war time) was that these were the
remains of Japanese soldiers who had died of exposure while sneaking
through India. The British government, terrified of a Japanese land
invasion, sent a team of investigators to determine if this was true.
However upon examination they realized these bones were not from Japanese
soldiersthey weren't fresh enough.
It was evident that the bones were quite old indeed. Flesh, hair, and the
bones themselves had been preserved by the dry, cold air, but no one could
properly determine exactly when they were from. More than that, they had
no idea what had killed over 200 people in this small valley. Many
theories were put forth including an epidemic, landslide, and ritual
suicide. For decades, no one was able to shed light on the mystery of
Skeleton Lake.
However, a 2004 expedition to the site seems to have finally revealed the
mystery of what caused those people's deaths. The answer was stranger than
anyone had guessed.
As it turns out, all the bodies date to around 850 AD. DNA evidence
indicates that there were two distinct groups of people, one a family or
tribe of closely related individuals, and a second smaller, shorter group
of locals, likely hired as porters and guides. Rings, spears, leather
shoes, and bamboo staves were found, leading experts to believe that the
group was comprised of pilgrims heading through the valley with the help
of the locals.
All the bodies had died in a similar way, from blows to the head. However,
the short deep cracks in the skulls appeared to be the result not of
weapons, but rather of something rounded. The bodies also only had wounds
on their heads, and shoulders as if the blows had all come from directly
above. What had killed them all, porter and pilgrim alike?
Among Himalayan women there is an ancient and traditional folk song. The
lyrics describe a goddess so enraged at outsiders who defiled her mountain
sanctuary that she rained death upon them by flinging hailstones hard as
iron. After much research and consideration, the 2004 expedition came to
the same conclusion. All 200 people died from a sudden and severe hailstorm.
Trapped in the valley with nowhere to hide or seek shelter, the "hard as
iron cricket ball-sized [about 23 centimeter/9 inches diameter]
hailstones came by the thousands, resulting in the travelers' bizarre
sudden death. The remains lay in the lake for 1,200 years until their
discovery.
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