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[cactuswatcher]

Rain wouldn't be much of a topic for most of you, but here in the desert, it's news.

Last night we had one of the biggest, and heaviest summer rain storms Phoenix has had since I moved here. It certainly wasn't one of the most violent, but in terms of size for a summer storm here it was a big one. It's not often when I can watch the weather radar and see that it's raining hard at my house and at soulfulspike80's across town at the same time from the same storm cell. The same storm rained on masqthephslphr's parent's place, but it's so far away that area wasn't on screen in the radar picture as the leading edge of the storm was over my house. It probably wasn't raining quite as hard there then, but they'd had their share.

Most of the area got over an inch and a half of rain last night, which is only unusual in how widespread it was for this time of year.

Comments

[wisewoman.livejournal.com]

Well, this is of the good! Will it mean that the cacti will start doing interesting things now? Producing non-glue-stuck-on flowers, and the like?

;o)

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

Other places roofs fall in from too much snow. Here last night, we had a grocery store roof fall in from rain, and it wasn't that much rain either.

[wisewoman.livejournal.com]

Oof! Sorry, that is definitely NOT of the good!

:o(

[soulfulspike80.livejournal.com]

Ahh, yes, the monsoon! I had to drive through the early part of the storm last night - not fun. But even worse, my mom was stranded at a Target parking lot for over three hours because the roads were so badly flooded.

She was coming home from a dinner with friends and first stopped at another restaurant for about an hour before heading out again. And then ended up at the Target. She tried to leave awhile later but had to turn back and then ran over something trying to get back to the parking lot (since she couldn't see anything). She didn't get home until after midnight. She's taking her car in tomorrow to get checked out, just in case something was damaged (since there was a very loud, not good-sounding noise when it happened). But it seems to be driving fine so hopefully all is well.

My backyard was a lake this morning. Standing water everywhere for the first time in the eight years I've been in the house. And some water came in my house, as well as my brother's and my mom's. And the parking lot at work was flooded out. Gotta love the monsoons!

Oh my!

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

Yes, even running over a hidden curb could make a heck of a noise. None of us knows what its like driving with all the water in the streets till we move here and try to get somewhere when it's raining. I hope your mother's car is okay.

I was listening to the baseball game and watching the radar thinking, "You know it would be a good thing for all those people at the game if it went into extra innings." As it was it let out right in the middle of a heavy squall. I didn't hear too much except hwy 51 was a mess coming out of downtown.

When I moved, in my backyard was a lake every time it rained hard, with water standing a lot of places for a day or two sometimes. So part of putting in the cactus 'planters' was digging a path for the water to run out. My backyard was full of water Tuesday night and I had a little lapping on the patio, but nothing like it used to be. I only had one small puddle in the yard the next morning.