We get about a third of our yearly rainfall in 3-5 storms in a 2 month period. Monsoons are great.
Posted on 08/02/2005 10:09:54 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
My buddy just sent me a txt msg saying the power is out, the streets are flooding, the cells are down, and he heard a wind shear or tornado hit the area
99 bottles of haboob on the wall,
99 bottles of haboooooob...
No. That doesn't work.
OK, time for bed then.
Thanks for everything.
Night all
Nite. Take care :)
Nite! Thanks for reporting in..!!
We get about a third of our yearly rainfall in 3-5 storms in a 2 month period. Monsoons are great.
Habib ready for Haboob.
I'm in the Arcadia/Orangedale area, and its raining medium for the second time tonite.
Loving it.
You Irish? Ever been to the Irish Culture Center events in Phoenix?
Liz Habib is in LA now.
She is famous for causing a scene here trying to get into a foo foo bar, drunkenly screaming "Don't you know who I am, I am Liz F***ing Habib!!!"
She moved soon after.
we been getting hammered in Lake Havasu last 2 hours ... this radar image is from a couple of minutes ago
Yeah, I'm half Irish (the GOOD half, of course). I've never been to the Irish Cultural Center -- been meaning to for the last 9 years I've been here, but never got around to it.
When I was visiting in college there was a tornado in that area.
Its a good place, they have dances and films and stuff all the time there.
Twice a year they have big irish festivals in Hance park, lots of music and fun.
I'm quarter Irish, but have a citizenship from there.
Yesterday's Loop, (I used to live in many different valley locations in the 80's and 90's, miss it alot). :)
Juan Hernandez, left, Joe Sevilla and Enrique Gastelm, inmates in the Maricopa County Jail, clean up a flooded part of the St. Mary's Food Bank warehouse Wednesday morning. Two sections of the roof collapsed at about 11:30 Tuesday night during the monsoon storm that swept through Phoenix.
Joe Dimarco, owner of Quik Pik Towing, prepares to pull a 2001 PT Cruiser out of Indian Bend Wash early Wednesday morning.
A man waits for a tow truck after his cab stalled while crossing a flooded wash on 40th Street.
Menilik Chea, 11, left, and his brother Abanezer, 8, of Mesa get caught in Tuesday night's thunderstorm and rain during their walk from Bank One Ballpark.
string of thunderstorms wreaked havoc Tuesday night on the East Valley as emergency crews scrambled to drivers stuck in high water, roof collapses, tree fires and downed power lines.
Heavy rains caused a 60-by-60-foot section of roof to collapse at a Fry’s Marketplace, 5100 S. McClintock Drive, in Tempe. The roof fell about 9:30 p.m. near the bakery, and water started gushing in, said Tempe police Sgt. Rick Vasquez. It was about closing time, so there were few customers. People were evacuated into the rain while firefighters searched for victims. No one was injured.
Rescue crews in Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Fountain Hills and in the south East Valley responded to several drivers stranded in flooded washes.
One man drove into a running wash at La Casa Drive and Del Cambray Avenue in Fountain Hills and was able to get out of his vehicle, but was then stuck in a tree, said Alison Cooper, a Rural/Metro Department spokeswoman.
Several homes near Hunt Highway southeast of Ellsworth Road near Queen Creek were affected by flooding.
"It’s almost impassable," Cooper said of the flooded roadways.
Downed power lines and poles were scattered across Valley roads. Police dealt with traffic light outages.
Westbound U.S. 60 was closed at Loop 101, McClintock Drive and Rural Road for crashes, flooding and cars stuck in high water. Northbound Loop 101 also was shut down between Guadalupe Road and Southern Avenue by flooding. Department of Public Safety officials asked motorists to stay off the freeways Tuesday night because many portions were closed due to flooding and stalled vehicles.
Several thousand people lost power.
Dust storms and winds up to 58 mph kicked off the storms about 8 p.m. The National Weather Service in Phoenix issued a flash flood warning at 10 p.m.
Idiots always try to drive across Indian Bend Wash, and they always get stuck. The fact that its a PT Cruiser makes it all the more funny.
24 Hr. totals for Metro PHX courtesy of the Maricopa County Flood Control District.
My neighboorhood didn't get too much, I live in a spot that storms usually miss.
Back in '87 I lived on LAFB and a microburst came down from near the White Tank Mountains. It ripped our builging signs in half and sent them careening into the windows of people's cars.
The hail was about nickel size and was horizontal. The wind also cracked the pedestal base of our radar. It was intense.
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