Posted on 09/17/2014 8:10:24 AM PDT by rktman
Good story.
Hope you have a very productive season.
We do, indeed! I like to watch Texans slide down the road.
Parts of Arizona had a lot of rain from hurricane remnants earlier in the month. That much rain in mountain/desert country can be very bad news.
They are used to the monsoons, but they rarely get these amounts of water at this time of year.
Link busted!
Awesome!
A good start to breaking the drought.
In the Phoenix Valley a week ago Monday, on the 8th, we all got blasted. It was the biggest single storm event for Phoenix on record. The whole valley got record amounts.
Cars thought they could get through 10” of water but passing trucks flooded them out and then the water went to 3’ deep on some of the interstates as vehicles were backed up waiting and unable to get off.
The ground, while desert dry, does not absorb like ground elsewhere where vegetation keeps top soil in place. Run-off is fast. Likewise there are drainage canals that flow into retention basin areas but in this storm the basins got so full the canals backed up and flooded whole subdivisions five hours after the storm was at its peak.
The tropical depression remnant is going to go more to the east of the valley and Tucson will get hit worse than Phoenix today and tomorrow. Arizona and New Mexico will get a lot of rainfall that they need as the Phoenix Valley by getting that last huge rain is still a half inch below annual average.
Ground water aquifers are 100 to 300 feet lower than they were sixty years ago.
I never thought I’d ever say this but......... “let it rain let it rain let it rain”.
After slogging through so many wet muddy years on the Texas coast I was sick and tired of rain.
Then came our recent drought! It was so horrible to go several years without sufficient rain and have to watch huge 100+ year old trees die for lack of water. The weatherman announced the other night that we are officially finished with that drought. Yea rain!
The heck you say...
They should warn when they can, but it sure is weird the underlying current these days, that weather never happened before.
As long as I have been alive, strange weather has happened.
I’m thinking it will probably continue.
I saw a sign just like that on a trip to Oklahoma to visit my aunt. Don’t know why but that sign cracks me up every time I pass it. lol
Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get............Robert Heinlein.................
LOL. Looks like Sudderth street in Rui.
This one always cracks me up. Where are the FAST children playing?...............
Not really, they come up every once in a while. The last one was in Sept of 1997.
Sorry pinged wrong person
lol true
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