From: Brian Finch <birdfinch@gmail.com>
Date: 2011-10-17 21:42
Subject: Fw: [tanzaniabirds] rain in Arusha
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From: Brian Finch <birdfinch@gmail.com>
To: tanzaniabirds@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 17 October 2011, 20:24
Subject: Re: [tanzaniabirds] rain in Arusha
Hi All,
It rained nearly every day I was away in Uganda throughout September.
Freak storms washed away bridges on Ishasha Road, QEP, and closed
Kaajjaanse Airfield Kampale just as we were about to land, and had to
go all the way back to Soroti for the night.
There has been some steady rain on this side of Nairobi (Langata), but
hardly anything obvious Athi RIver, this has been for the past two
weeks, although sporadic. Northern half of NNP green and lush, dams
very healthy, southern portions in the grip
of drought and look like
semi-desert, and the largest dam will not see out another month.
Floods NW in Kitale, where there has been a serious volume of rain
much of this year, good rains in Rift Naivasha and Nakuru, flooding
Mombasa and Watamu, and also Kibwezi whilst parts of Makueni only
sixty kilometres distant have not seen rain for three years! A storm
over Kibwezi last week was so intense that it prevented small aircraft
from going to the coast. That is just the jist of this crazy climate.
Best to all
Brian
On 10/17/11, Paul Oliver <olbalbal@habari.co.tz> wrote:
> Western Serengeti heavy rain I hear- Moru flooded- Ndutu a little rain,
> Karatu less so.
>
> Arusha EVERY DAY- Bring it on! Friend on a bus to Dar reported rain to Same.
>
> Tarangire Lodge reported slight rain in the
Park.
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> Maasai askari states heavy rain south of Lolkisale near Oldonyo Sambu.
>
> Farmer friends say at night guys on bicycles with flashlights and ‘bells’
> poaching everything around the Maasai Steppe - 3 cleaned ostrich carcases
> around their Lolkisale farm.
>
> These guys just ride up with a flashlight ringing the bell and walk right up
> to tommies and in fact any meat, and just bang the animal on the head!
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> Bush meat markets on the Steppe are busier than ever.
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> Paul Oliver
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> Sanjan Limited Box 425 Arusha Tanzania
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