Right, back on the subject of rain. Tonight I decided to follow the river along to the main dam. As per normal, the rain was on and heavy. From reading the information on the goverment website here, it seems the dam was pretty recently installed, in around 2009. I'm piecing together various bits of info and judging from what I can see, it would seem realistic given the weather situation here to expect some pretty bad flooding in this town at some point. The last bad ones were in 1998 when some houses got washed away. From looking at the maps, this place has one really bad achillies heel and that is of the main river. In the instance of fierce weather, this dam simply won't be able to cope. The only slight possibility of easing the water situation would be to widen the main river in order to let the water flow through a wider channel, thus making the town less prone to a catastrophic flood situation. However, this being capitolist place, basically most of the land has been built on, so it would be hard to do this. Also, the petrol consumption here is heavy, so the rain gets harder all the time. The info i read was that 200 - 700mm of rainfall in 24 hours is enough to be of concern, but I would reckon, this amount is easily being hit or exceeded within half that timeframe just now. I don't care anymore, I know from experience by the time you get the plan to the people that can do anything about it, it's often too late. So, personal prediction, this town would have maybe 2 years before being destroyed with water at current rates of rainfall/fuel consumption. Really, now would be about the time, to start carving out an ark...