Posted on 12/30/2004 9:43:39 PM PST by TERMINATTOR
Is this an omen for the new year?
Does this mean the drought is gone?
yes... now that we're allowed to water our lawns, we don't have to...
You getting any of this?
SEDONA - A winter storm that drenched California moved into Arizona late Tuesday and early Wednesday, dropping sheets of rain over the state, sending a wall of water into Oak Creek and forcing hundreds to evacuate. Two men were missing after they tried canoeing in a normally dry creek in Prescott that was swollen by the rain. In less than 24 hours, Oak Creek rose more than 14 feet as it passed through Sedona, turning into a spreading torrent of brown water, logs and debris. Flooding forced the closure of a 14-mile stretch of U.S. 89A because of mudslides and led to the evacuation of 300 to 350 people along the creek's path as far south as Cornville. The storm also dumped enough water into the Verde River drainage that the Salt River Project will have to release water from Bartlett Dam to accommodate it, the first time the Salt River through Phoenix will have running water since March 1998. [SNIP].......
It's been raining for 24hrs. straight.
http://radar.wrh.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.80stp/si.kmux.shtml
We're on the far eastern edge of this storm. Santa Cruz- San Jose is water-logged.
It's a warm rain that's melting the snowpack. Weather reports say more rain is due Saturday.
Howcome the vortexes and hoodoos around Sedona have not protected the area so beloved by the "NEW AGERS"!
Bad vibes from Bush and Rumsfield? Negative karma? Maybe they're too busy counting EVERY vote, to worry about the weather?
Busy reaching out to the great beyond, trying to determine the voting intent of the un-dead?
I drove from Phoenix to Prescott today and every desert wash was full with rushing water. I don't recall seeing that before.
It was really coming down for awhile today. I had to make a run to the supermarket, and I was driving just a teensy bit too fast when I hit sheets of water. Fortunately, I wasn't going so fast that I lost control of the car, but it got my attention. Plus, it was after dark, and it was really hard to see the road. We have water standing in the back yard and in the garden - not good for the winter garden stuff we planted earlier.
We haven't had good rain like this in 10 years..The lakes need to catch up again.
That's my neck o' the woods. The highway through Oak Creek Canyon has been closed due to rockslides. Same for the highway to the south going to Prescott.
Just a tad soggy in the desert tonight.
We stayed in Sedona for a week on vacation a few years ago. What a gorgeous location! We rented a house on the 17th tee of the Oak Creek Country Club. We'd like to go back sometime.
Lake Tahoe got 40 inches of snow, Reno 18, Truckee 28 and yup the road over Donner is closed because of snow and accidents.
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