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EP8 Title: 'Here Comes the Bedouin! '
puddin:
I was thinking the flooded road clue might be in Greece but after reading this it could very well be Oman too .
We had some problems guessing what the "Stop If Water Is At Red" signs meant. At first we thought it might be to remind drivers to watch the temperature of their engine cooling water in the hot climate of the Arabian peninsula. Then we become aware that the associated sign with waves crossing an arrow (water crossing a road ?) did not fit our hypothesis very well. Days later we asked our 4WD-driver Ya'qoub and he explained that this sign is followed by poles at the roadside which are painted white close to the ground followed by red higher up. If rainwater floods the road, it is only safe to drive as long as the white color is still visible, which means water is shallow enough to allow a normal car to pass. The power of the rain water should not be underestimated. We could see an impressive demonstration on a photo of a flooded wadi taken by a local photographer in Nizwa. The "Stop If Water Is At Red" sign is very frequent on overland roads in the Sultanate - we passed one of the signs every few kilometres.
http://wolke7.birringer.at/~thomasg/Oman/roadsign.html
Sultanate of Oman
http://library.thinkquest.org/3526/facts/oman.html
puddin:
http://onearthoman.free.fr/album/index.htm
supsandalee:
Look I see a camel toe! :lol3: :lol3: :lol3: :lol3:
I would not have associated a flooded road with Oman either, I mean it's the desert. But Vegas is the same way -- when it rains they get flash flooding. Maybe there are some statistics on when and where it flooded in Oman last November.
puddin:
--- Quote ---Maybe there are some statistics on when and where it flooded in Oman last November.
--- End quote ---
:tup: I;m having no luck so far .
weeecammmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaatoeeeeeeeeeeee :jumpy:
puddin:
:jumpy: more after survivor.......
good enough for now
http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b105/rawalsh/TAR9_Promo2/TAR_Promo8/extra/?start=all
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