rainy weekend
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.
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