Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were three days short of a Biblical record," said Foreign Minister Habib Bourguiba Jr. He was not smiling. For 38 days in September and October, rain fell steadily on Tunisia, leaving 600 people dead, destroying 70,000 homes, and making refugees of 300,000 of the nation's 4,500,000 people. Touring the country last week, TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers reported that the floods have set economic growth back five years...
Meteorologists blame the flood on a shift in the Azores high-pressure area from 35° north latitude, where it normally centers, to 45° north. The shift eliminated summer rains from most of Europe and brought unusually warm and sunny weather. Meanwhile, cool air suddenly began to flow from the Soviet Union toward the Mediterranean. A low-pressure system over Northern Africa created a bowling-alley effect, directing the moisture-laden air mass straight at Tunisia. On the Tunisian-Algerian border, the Atlas Mountains blocked the air and caused the rain to fall. The mountains also...
...RAIN RAIN RIVERS, by Uri Shulevitz (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $4.50). A lyrical portrait of rain from the drips on the windowpane to rushing rivers. The author's blue and green line and wash drawings look appealingly wet and moody...
...severe are the shortages that a standard joke in Rangoon, which averages 100 inches of rain a year, is that if the government decided to nationalize water, there would be a drought. Rice exports continue to decline, dropping from 1,800,000 tons in 1962 to an expected 600,000 tons this year...
Little reconstruction has begun because many insurance companies have been slow at settling the larger damage claims. Most property insurance covered wind, rain, or lightning damage, but not destruction caused by high tides or waves. Former homeowners and businessmen are caught between the precise wording of their insurance policies and the difficulty of proving that wind caused most of the damage to their property before high water floated the debris away. "Many of my people saw their houses blown away, but the insurance companies say this isn't so," says Chalin Perez, president of the Plaquemines police jury...