ETHIOPIA: A NATION OF 13 MONTHS OF RAINFALL!
The Green Legacy culture and the nation wide reforestation movement has turned the country into a year round rainfall nation. while this a national blessing it will test the quality & durability of infrastructures - the roads, drainage, and flood systems particularly in cities. For example, most the urban corridors were built in haste and very easily be damaged by the rain and the floods. We shall see.
Re: ETHIOPIA: A NATION OF 13 MONTHS OF RAINFALL!
ቆራሌው!Horus wrote: ↑09 Jun 2025, 14:39The Green Legacy culture and the nation wide reforestation movement has turned the country into a year round rainfall nation. while this a national blessing it will test the quality & durability of infrastructures - the roads, drainage, and flood systems particularly in cities. For example, most the urban corridors were built in haste and very easily be damaged by the rain and the floods. We shall see.
13 months of sunshine ከተቀየረ እኮ ቆይቷል!
ብልግና "Land of the Origns” ተክታለች
ፍርፋሪህን እንዳይከለክሉህ አስተካክል
Re: ETHIOPIA: A NATION OF 13 MONTHS OF RAINFALL!
You stupid, did I say sunshine or rainfall. Idiot.
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Re: ETHIOPIA: A NATION OF 13 MONTHS OF RAINFALL!
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A torrent of muddy water sweeping through Addis Abeba is hardly unprecedented. In mid-August 2021, one of the city’s fiercest floods in decades swallowed streets, tore through tin-roofed homes and claimed at least seven lives. Rainfall forecasts warned of heavy storms through August 21, but for many residents, it was already too late. Whole neighbourhoods spent days picking through the wreckage, tallying the cost of what officials described as “extensive damage.”
The city's vulnerability is rooted in its geography and its growth. Three rivers — the Bantyeketu, the Kebena and Akaki — thread through a basin ringed by hills. The Akaki River, the city’s largest and a tributary of the Awash, slips beneath the ring road at dawn carrying more plastic bags than fish. Once it ran for 53Km from the highlands to the Aba-Samuel reservoir. Today, researchers call parts of it “dead rivers,” while the Little Akaki, poisoned by sewage and industry, is labelled an “open sewer.”
A torrent of muddy water sweeping through Addis Abeba is hardly unprecedented. In mid-August 2021, one of the city’s fiercest floods in decades swallowed streets, tore through tin-roofed homes and claimed at least seven lives. Rainfall forecasts warned of heavy storms through August 21, but for many residents, it was already too late. Whole neighbourhoods spent days picking through the wreckage, tallying the cost of what officials described as “extensive damage.”
The city's vulnerability is rooted in its geography and its growth. Three rivers — the Bantyeketu, the Kebena and Akaki — thread through a basin ringed by hills. The Akaki River, the city’s largest and a tributary of the Awash, slips beneath the ring road at dawn carrying more plastic bags than fish. Once it ran for 53Km from the highlands to the Aba-Samuel reservoir. Today, researchers call parts of it “dead rivers,” while the Little Akaki, poisoned by sewage and industry, is labelled an “open sewer.”