I’ve been out there several times over the last six months. People are nice, traffic stinks.
I seriously doubt you can garden. Every is sand, rock, or has spikes. Incredibly dry. It surprised me at how dry it is. From a preparedness side there will be no water if they lose electric.
It’s a desert.
driftdiver
on with you on many posts, but that simply isn’t true. I’m in Chandler surrounded by year round citrus and alfalfa farms, not to mention horse ranches, cattle, goats, sheep.
when I first got here, i thought it would be desert and it is in certain places. but not where I am. and this is a big area with a lot of open land alternating with subdivisions.
i’ve got oranges, peaches, lemons, figs, grapes, grapefruit. i’ve got 1 acre that i’ll probably farm this year. the guy next to me has 10 acres of alfalfa. 3 horse properties on the other side.
flood irrigation has turned the desert into great farmland.
True, in the summer if power is lost and doesn't come back you die from heat and thirst -- your choice.
OTOH, here where I am in eastern Washington State it can be 110F in the summer, but I can walk one mile to the cool and fairly clean Columbia River and will not die of heat or thirst anytime soon.