A lorry has been swept away by raging waters at flooded seasonal river in Lodwar driver & passenger rescued.
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Mpaka Lodwar? Kweli imenyesha
Lodwar si Kenya.
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El Nino bonoko
waah huyo jamaa wa probox on the other side alenge tu story he should not think of anything stupid
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watu hu underate/undermine the speed and strength of water, ata maji ya 2 feet gari yako inakua boat, if its a flash flood give it half an hr na ita subside, analysing those pics naona hio area iko dry kapsaa, hio mvua ilikua imenyesha pahala pengine
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hata sisi tulitengenezewa ile killer bridge ya nyongara
apana jaribu pita kama maji imeoverflow
That was my exact observation, even the the onlookers seem awed by the sudden appearance of so much water
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After so much money has been spent rebuilding the roads. I can now imagine the state of the roads post- El-Nino.
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Hawa majamaa wa lodwa wajaze tanks na maji, waoge, waache kunuka kama mbusi.
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Ya waithaka…?
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Meria mata kuna insurance ya elnino?
True. Vehicles are heavy. But people forget that water does not push against a vehicle like a machine or a human would do.
Weight = Weight of car - Weight of water. This could well be negative. In this situation even a kid can push it over.
Even a 90,000 ton battleship is carried by water. What about 1.1 ton probox or a 15 ton truck.
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Tyres are the main culprit.
The air inside makes the vehicle buoyant. If it’s a vehicle running on tracks, it would take a huge wall of water to topple it over.
Tires are a very small volume. Unless you got huge tyres. The force experienced due to tyres is
Weight of water displaced by volume of tires - (Weigh of the tyres +Weight of air inside). Very little is left for buoyancy.
Buoyancy is about the whole weight of the car - weight of the displaced water, especially at the beginning of the flood before water gets inside(at this point the car is a boat)
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let me jog your memory, 2004 tsunami, trains were washed over. sina mbisha saa hii
ndio
You can’t compare the force of a tsunami to water flowing in a river or gully. Very different volumes and forces.
The point is water will carry a car whether it is on wheels or on stones more or less the same way.
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