the Prismatic Dragon
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preggo brain: 1, car: 0

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Being monsoon season, it rained yesterday.

Earlier that day, I had gone down to the yarn shop to get some yarn for a baby blanket or two, and to remind the ladies that I would still like to work there, darn it!!

Anyway, I rolled the passenger side window down a bit when I went inside, and left it down on the drive home.  It was only cracked like maybe, two inches, if that.

I parked the car in the driveway at home, went inside and went about my business.  I noticed it started raining.  Really hard.  So, I stood slack-jawed at the window, watching how hard the rain was coming down.  (Shut up. We’re in the desert.  Rain is an amazing thing to watch, especially in the desert.  Nearly everyone here does it, too.  I mean, it only happens a few times in a year. So we gotta watch it!)  It didn’t even occur to me that the window was still open on my car.

I went to the back door to watch how the wind was whipping the pool water into a frenzy.  I got a chair, sat down and started knitting while watching the rain fall.

Josh comes out, peeks outside the front door (I couldn’t open it before as the wind was driving the rain to the south/southeast, nearly horizontally, so that if we opened the door, it would come into the house, even under the porch).  He says, “um, babe, did you know your passenger side window is still open??”

SHIT!  I jump up and start looking for an umbrella.  The rain is STILL coming down really hard.

Realize umbrellas (both of them) are still in the truck.  Which is also in the driveway.  CRAP!

Remember that we still have some rain slickers from when we went to Universal Studios a few years ago (or maybe it was Disneyland) and it rained most of the time we were there.  Grabbed one, dashed outside.  Rain still has not let up.  Carefully run to the car and jump in (soaking the driver-side in the process).  Put key in the ignition and turn it enough to bring up the power, and roll up the window (power windows, naturally).  Look at the inside of my poor car and how soaked the seat is, the dash and the floor.  Sigh, and scramble out of the car and head back to the house.  By now the lower 8” of my jeans’ legs are soaked too.  My sandals are all squidgey, so I take them off at the door, take off the slicker and go hang it in the shower, then change into dry jammies.

I blame preggo brain for this.  I am almost 99% sure I would have thought about my car’s windows in ordinary circumstances.  Or, if not, I certainly would have realized it was still down a LOT sooner than 20 some minutes into a downpour, AFTER having it brought to my attention by my husband.  :red:

Once the rain finally let up, I went to go get dinner, and brought a bunch of paper towels with me so I could at least wipe down the dash and door panels.  Then when I went to get lunch this morning, it was literally a sauna inside… the windshield was steamed up, and as soon as I sat down inside, my sunglasses even steamed over.  Yuck.

Later today, I noticed that the rain, having been practically horizontal, had even made it to the center of the dash (the console with the gauges is in the center of the car on an Ion).  I had only wiped down the water I could see, so I guess maybe that section had mostly dried.  What gave it away today was the water spots.

So, my poor car got an unwanted bath on the inside, which, as I’ve said, I’m blaming on preggo-brain.  Josh joked that the baby is probably a girl, and is sucking away all my brain cells for herself, since a lot of guys tend to lack in the brain department.  I just kind of laughed, although after thinking about it, since it’s HIS spawn, it could go either way since he’s pretty damn smart as it is, so I would hope that, girl or boy, she/he’s just as smart as as her/his daddy.  😉

I think he was just voicing his hope that it’s a girl, though. 😉


Posted by Niki on 07/27 at 11:21 PM
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it’s raining, it’s pouring…

Sunday, July 17, 2005

Well, it WAS pouring.

See?

 

There’s a river where our street used to be!

So.  Do you think this means our monsoon season has begun?  😊

After I took the last picture, I heard rain start falling pretty hard again, but it wasn’t falling on me.  So I started walking back to my street, and could see it falling east of me, and slowly moving toward me.  It was rather.. wierd.  So I stashed the camera under my shirt and made a dash for the house.  I had intended on taking more pictures, but I didn’t have an umbrella since it was only barely sprinkling when I went out.  Ah well.

What I took does show that the flash flood warnings we get around here during monsoon are no joke.  The rain will fall so hard and so fast, the ground has absolutely NO time to start absorbing it.  That, and the drains usually get clogged up with the debris that gets torn from trees.  We saw millions of pine needles and loads of palm tree debris all over one of the roads we were driving down on the way home, and the streets were just flooded since the drains were getting clogged.

When we went into Best Buy before all this hit, it was probably still well over 100 degrees (probably around 110)... by the time we came out (it had just started to rain), the temperature felt like it had dipped to around 95 or so.  It’s so nice to get rain in the summer, except for the next day.  Then it’s all hot AND muggy.  Blech.


Posted by Niki on 07/17 at 08:44 PM
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like a broiler…

Sunday, July 03, 2005
I just looked at my little weather pixie.  I think she is broken.  She says it’s only 86 F degrees.

I guess it is Luke AFB’s reporting system that is broken, because when I change it to Glendale Airport, it changes the time to 11:50am MST and 100 degrees…


 

Yeah, I wish.

  (and the above pic is showing four hours ago, even…. it’s probably a good five to eight degrees warmer than that now.)

image from azcentral.com


Posted by Niki on 07/03 at 07:46 PM
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rainy weekend

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Arizona has been getting quite a bit of rain this weekend.. Rivers are overrunning their banks, mudslides are closing some highways, people are being stupid and trying to canoe on the swollen rivers…

We also got hail yesterday.  Pea-sized, but quite a bit of it.  Phoenicians are funny about unusual weather.  We always have to go watch when it starts coming down in buckets… or if there is hail, everyone runs to a window to watch…

Apparently there was also a tornado warning for some parts of Phoenix, our area included.  We weren’t home though, we were at Josh’s grandmothers for dinner last night.  So we saw the hail, but didn’t learn about the tornado warning for our area where our house is until before bed last night.  A few meek funnel clouds were seen here or there, but nothing touched down.

Anyway, back to the rain.  There has been so much of it that we’ve already had to drain some water out of our pool to keep it from over-flowing… and we’ll need to do it again later today due to the rain we got since we drained it on Monday has brought it back up to the max fill line again…

Fortunately this week up north the rain turned to snow this time (and they’ve been getting lots of it), so hopefully the snow pack will be great and the runoff in the spring will help the lakes a little.  It certainly won’t be enough to make up for the last 9 years of drought we’ve had, but it’s still nice.


Posted by Niki on 01/05 at 01:19 PM
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blech…

Sunday, July 25, 2004

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It’s only 6:20a and it’s already gross outside.

Stupid monsoon that teased us last night and didn’t dump any rain!  Puh.


Posted by Niki on 07/25 at 09:17 AM
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