Singapore is really fortunate where the forces of nature are concerned – there are very few natural calamities. No earthquakes, tornadoes nor hurricanes. Rising sea levels will get us, but that is for the young to worry about. Every now and then though, we get extremely heavy rains – have you heard the phrase “raining cats and dogs”? It feels as though buckets of water are raining down. The picture below shows far more dramatic skies than rain.
Occasionally there are strong gusts of wind, and trees are uprooted. One is strongly advised to avoid the Nature Reserve during bad weather. I found this poor tree about a day after heavy rains.
Finally, though, I couldn’t resist putting this little fella into this post, he was a Force of Nature as far as I was concerned! I was afraid to walk past him, so intent was his stare.
For more pictures of Forces of Nature, look here.
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My goodness! That monkey (or whatever he technically is) is rather cute!
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He’s a long-tailed macaque. Cute as he is, he is wild, and I was afraid of what he might do. They don’t normally come so close to the path.
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Yeah, I would have been a bit nervous, too. Thanks for taking the time to snap the photo for us, though!
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That young (I think) monkey is cute.
Forces of nature are always scary to me. Heavy rain and thunder and lightening are the worst.
Fabulous pictures. Though we can’t see the rain, I imagine it because of the gun metal clouds hung low. 🙂
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Thanks!
You’re right, he was a little young fella, and very bold.
I actually love heavy rain and thunder when I am safe indoors.
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How strange, earlier today I reared a letter my father wrote to my mother in 1941 describing sitting in a deck chair in Singapore at the moment that the rains came down.
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That is a coincidence! It used to flood quite a bit, but with improved drainage etc, floods are supposed to be a thing of the past.
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Beautiful photos!
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Thank you!
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right on kewl monkee shoT! 😎
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