Article seems to attribute it to flood debris. Really it could be from anything. Stuff can get washed overboard from passing ships. Which is surprisingly common. Could be stuff people dumped them for whatever reason.
A 20,000 liter drum is roughly equivalent to 5,280 Gallons give or take for us yanks.
The size of it would suggest some sort of heavy industrial use. Depending on how full it was to start with. It would take a hell of a lot of water to move it.
And unless a very large factory was flooded. I don’t see where it could have come from. Because it’s unlikely that something that size would be used in a Garage/Mechanics shop for say disposing of used oil and fluids. They’d likely be using 55 gallon drums if only for ease of transport. The same would likely be true of small time manufacturers.
Granted there are exceptions to everything. Just because I feel it’s unlikely doesn’t mean it that it isn’t exactly what happened.
But the size of it gives me the impression it maybe came off a ship or something. A particularly rough storm could probably quite easily rip something off a deck that isn’t tied down right.
Article seems to attribute it to flood debris. Really it could be from anything. Stuff can get washed overboard from passing ships. Which is surprisingly common. Could be stuff people dumped them for whatever reason.
A 20,000 liter drum is roughly equivalent to 5,280 Gallons give or take for us yanks.
The size of it would suggest some sort of heavy industrial use. Depending on how full it was to start with. It would take a hell of a lot of water to move it.
And unless a very large factory was flooded. I don’t see where it could have come from. Because it’s unlikely that something that size would be used in a Garage/Mechanics shop for say disposing of used oil and fluids. They’d likely be using 55 gallon drums if only for ease of transport. The same would likely be true of small time manufacturers.
Granted there are exceptions to everything. Just because I feel it’s unlikely doesn’t mean it that it isn’t exactly what happened.
But the size of it gives me the impression it maybe came off a ship or something. A particularly rough storm could probably quite easily rip something off a deck that isn’t tied down right.