07-22-2013, 06:25 AM
Good morning all. It's downright chilly outside right now, 78° with 91% humidity. Thanks for the concern about the flooding. We had one of our torrential "monsoon" rain storms in the Valley yesterday morning. The sky was really overcast and about mid-morning we looked out and we saw a trickle of rain, not enough to get the driveway wet 
. We didn't know until the evening news that the east and south parts of the Valley got drenched. Very typical of what goes on here, storms are very localized. I remember years ago when we lived on the east side, there was a storm that tore roofs off of houses and uprooted trees on the west side. Now the opposite has happened. Although we like the rain, we thought about it and decided a trickle of rain was better than what happened to those that had their houses flooded. Water rescues are normal for these times when normally dry washes run like rivers. They build roads through these washes and barricade them when they are flooding, but some people think they have the right to go around them and they wind up loosing their vehicles or even worse. If they have to be rescued, we have what we call, a "stupid motorist law", that requires them to pay for the cost of the rescue if they ignored these barricades.
Still, it's weird how they got all this rain and a few miles away, we got zip....
. We didn't know until the evening news that the east and south parts of the Valley got drenched. Very typical of what goes on here, storms are very localized. I remember years ago when we lived on the east side, there was a storm that tore roofs off of houses and uprooted trees on the west side. Now the opposite has happened. Although we like the rain, we thought about it and decided a trickle of rain was better than what happened to those that had their houses flooded. Water rescues are normal for these times when normally dry washes run like rivers. They build roads through these washes and barricade them when they are flooding, but some people think they have the right to go around them and they wind up loosing their vehicles or even worse. If they have to be rescued, we have what we call, a "stupid motorist law", that requires them to pay for the cost of the rescue if they ignored these barricades. Still, it's weird how they got all this rain and a few miles away, we got zip....
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD