I don't need dirt, I need som frigging RAIN

[Kali]

AZZ035-030230-
/O.CON.KTWC.DS.W.0002.000000T0000Z-090803T0200Z/
COCHISE COUNTY-
622 PM MST SUN AUG 2 2009

...DUST STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MST THIS
EVENING FOR NORTHERN COCHISE COUNTY...

A DUST STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MST THIS
EVENING FOR NORTHERN COCHISE COUNTY...INCLUDING INTERSTATE 10
BETWEEN TEXAS CANYON AND THE NEW MEXICO STATE LINE.

AT 615 PM...TRAINED SPOTTERS AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT A LARGE DUST STORM MOVING SOUTHWEST
ACROSS NORTHERN COCHISE COUNTY. THE DUST STORM EXTENDED FROM
MULESHOE RANCH IN NORTHEAST COCHISE COUNTY...TO JUST OUTSIDE OF
WILLCOX...TO THE ENTRANCE OF CHIRICAHUA NATIONAL MONUMENT. THIS
DUST STORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND
VISIBILITIES BELOW ONE QUARTER OF A MILE. VISIBILITIES FELL TO
ONE QUARTER OF A MILE AT BOTH SAN SIMON AND BOWIE JUST BEFORE 600
PM...WITH A WIND GUST TO 46 MPH MEASURED IN BOWIE.

THIS DUST STORM WILL AFFECT INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN THE NEW MEXICO
STATE LINE AND TEXAS CANYON WITH VISIBILITIES DOWN TO ONE QUARTER
OF A MILE AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. EVENTUALLY THIS STORM MAY
PUSH AS FAR SOUTH AS PEARCE-SUNSITES...COCHISE...BENSON AND SAINT
DAVID BEFORE 7 PM.

[LynzM]

1. Let's trade....

I can't remember the last time when we had two days in a row when it didn't rain.


:hug: It sucks both ways.

[Maine-ah]

2. I'll second that

I took my daughter to the lake, and there was no beach. The levels are so high, the lake was up to the grass. x(

[Kali]

4. It has been more that 20 years since I complained about too much rain.

I would love to be able to do that for a change. Just one year? pllleeeeeezzzzzee.

This has been a strange summer for sure. June was cool and we actually had a few showers, July sucked.

[skygazer]

3. Did you ever read the book "The Worst Hard Time?"

About the Dust Bowl of the 30's and how so much of the land just blew away. The book blew ME away - I was aware of it but had no idea of the sheer magnitude and how desperately bad it was for people. I've never experienced a dust storm, nor do I want to and if we had any rain here, I'd send you some.

At least we're not getting dirt.

[Kali]

5. I haven't read it, but that disaster really illustrated the importance of perenial grass

and the danger of bare ground. The dust storms we get around here are mostly off the big ancient lake beds called playas. Mostly just over the border in New Mexico. There are some other ag-related sources too but mostly its the gypsum dust off the playas.

A dust storm the first of August is pretty wierd, though - as is a lightenning started fire - both of those usually happen in June.

[Kali]

6. well we didn't get the dust or any rain but I took a few pix.

I took off hoping to get some pictues of the wall of dust - it can look pretty dramatic - but it kind of went around and wasn't that interesting/photogenic.

Did get a nice a sunset.




And saw the neighbors' mountain had caught on fire.




About all the zoom will do on my toy camera.




Oh and here is a coyote from yesterday. I really need a better camera, don't you think? :P

[meow2u3]

7. Would you like to borrow some of ours?

We've had a $#!tload of rain in Philly! AAMAF, yesterday, we had 4 inches of rain in one hour!! If there were a way to transport the excess rain from the east to your neck of the woods, I'd do so.

[Kali]

10. 4 inches in an hour?

jeebus - that is like one our records - back in the late 80's we had a 4 inch rain in less than an hour.

of course that is about all we have had for THE WHOLE YEAR so far!:mad:

[NJmaverick]

8. How did you make out with your dust storms?

[Kali]

9. duds for dust or rain

see my post above (# 6, I think)

[NJmaverick]

11. What is that light on the mountain?

[Kali]

12. which picture?

if it is the bottom one, those are big metal power poles coming off a substation (and about 5 miles this side of the rocky hill/mountain.
the top would be um, the sun
the other two would be fire, started by lightening...:P

[NJmaverick]

13. I was talking about pictures 2 and 3

[datasuspect]

14. hang some snakes from your fenceposts

[Kali]

15. good idea

usually I just chuck them up at the end of our road where the assholes stop to pee

[datasuspect]

16. it's what they did during the last dust bowl

probably doesn't work, but every little bit helps i suppose.