What a Day!

You know the old song - It Never Rains in California, well it rained yesterday. A big weather system from the Pacific around San Diego made its way inland through California to Arizona and the rains of the prior days were nothing compared to Thursday. This area received about 4 or 5 inches of rain. I am told the annual average for here is 3 inches, so it was wet. This week was more that double the annual average. The impact was made worse by the lack of storm water systems, with the exception of the dry washes, it just ponds. Roads were flooded, the Phoenix airport shut down and it was generally miserable. The winds were the worst part, they reached 74 miles per hour on Ironwood road & that is just the next intersection. A tornado touched down on the 101 loop, thats about 25 miles from here. There were a couple of palm trees blown over and some other minor damage in the park. Light rain today so far & it should let up tomorrow. Certainly the topic of conversation in the park. Dave & Elizabeth Chomik drove up here and we went for breakfast with them. They visited at our place for a while & then drove back to Lake Havasu. He said it was rainy all the way but nothing serious as they avoided the roads where the washes were over the highway.