Posted on 07/29/2006 7:14:09 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
I know, isn't it great?
Yes, all of the grass and water is gone.
We'll have to be moving on.
Sand blowing, I just can't breathe in this air;
Thought it would soon be clear and fair.
But dust storms played hell
With land and folks as well.
Got to be moving somewhere.
Hate to leave the old ranch so bad.
But I've got to be moving somewhere.
So get along, dogies,
We're moving off of this range.
Never thought as how I'd make a change.
But the blue skies have failed, so we're on our last trail
Underneath these dusty skies.
Cindy Walker.
Recorded by Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys,
Okeh Records, 1941
Yes, it sure is! Albuquerque's got a lot more than we have, but we've still got quite a bit. I was in ABQ for two days and was out running around Monday evening when the storm hit. That was some of the worst lightening I've ever seen. Every time one hit, I jumped. LOL! I was waiting in the car in the parking lot for it to let up so I could go into the store and I had to wait about 30 minutes before it let up enough. Did you see that house that was hit by lightening? That was terrible. It almost popped the water heater.
Hoarder! :-)
I haven't heard about that house, I live in Las Cruces, and get the El Paso news....but we have been getting good rain, El Paso's streets flooded, they were freaking out, but I don't think it was as bad as Alamogordo was when it flooded.
Here in the Phoenix area on Tuesday we got lighting that didn't seem to stop for like 30 minutes. I live here most of my life and don't remember lighting being that crazy. We got a good soaking that night and Friday morning. I don't think we have hit 100 since Tuesday, except for the heat index factor.
This picture is just to show you what's coming your way, in the very near future. LOL That big red blob in AZ is moving my way in the very near future too.
On tonight's Albuquerque news they showed pictures of the flooding in Phoenix/Scottsdale. It was pretty bad. Did you see the picture I just posted? You guys may be getting some rain from some of those cells too. The lightening we had has been the worst I've ever seen too. It's crazy!
We had record rainfall and snow pack in California this year.
I just looked at the most current radar and it is starting to head into the Phoenix metro area. They said on are local news that the low is going to start moving more east tommorrow afternoon and take the rain with it.
We went straight from drought to flood here. I've spent the last 2 months cleaning up my property from a wildfire and hundred year flood.
The east coast has had one of the sickest summers in memory, with rain nearly every afternoon and evening. May and June were total washouts. I coached a baseball team and fully half of our games were rained out and had to be made up. Due to make-up games getting rained out, we never did get all our games played.
Send some of that drought this way.
First line: "More than 60 percent of the United States now has abnormally dry or drought conditions..."
Standard AP-biased headline custom made for the drive-by reader or search engine researcher. There is info to be broken down like "Of that 60% how much qualifies as drought conditions vs. "abnormally high?"
"Abnormally high" is a term that is as ambiguous as the "mental health " qualification used as a pretext for an abortion.
That's what I heard too, but when it moves out of AZ, it's moving right over the NW part of NM, and that's great news. We've been in the worst drought in the entire state, so we need it the worst. We didn't get much snow last winter, and we usually do. The floods have been so bad here that 2 people in two separate incidents have been swept away and drown.
I hope you get enough, but not to much. Stay safe.
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