Re: Katrina, British style

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:19:22 +0000 (UTC), don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Don
Klipstein) wrote:

In article <qQspi.20107$rL1.17128@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Joerg wrote:
DaveC wrote:

We actually had such an event in North Scottsdale in the mid '70's.
Tornado roared thru, left my house standing except for fence damage,
but several people's roofs in my pool :-(

Then it rained for three days. Left us as an island. They flew water
and food, baby diapers, etc., into Cocopah Elementary School (a block
away) in helicopters.

I remember that. I was in Tucson in college then. We got wet, but nothing
like the Phoenix area...

Probably seems odd, to non-desert rats, that in the middle of the desert you
can drown.

I remember camping in the desert way north of Phoenix. Bone dry,
blistering sun, not a whiff of a cloud anywhere. A ranger came by and
told us to get out of there, and pronto. There would be water roaring
through here in a few hours, he said.

Probably from thunderstorms blowing up near an edge of a mountainous
or otherwise elevated area upstream from the area in question.

This is occaisionally an actual problem in some desert areas of the
southwest USA, and I suspect also in some nearby areas of Mexico.

- Don Klipstein (don@xxxxxxxxx)

Yep. We've had a couple days straight of evening nasty storms.

Then steady rain last night, which was nice.

Steady light rain this morning, with sudden squalls down to zero
visibility... then I discovered that my blue-blocker sun glasses gave
good visibility in the worst of it.

We've had half our yearly allotment of rain in the past three days ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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