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The endless chatter of weather.

Still getting rained on and the 24 is closed again... You guessed it for flash flood warnings. Saw this short news clip and thought I'd post.
http://www.koaa.com/mobile/story.cfm?n=253001

Oh. I thought we kept records since the dinosaur days. Didn't we? I mean, Fred Flintstone probably had a rain gauge made out of a hollow antler or something, right?

I was just wondering about you Joel...Are you guys ok?

Outdoor Lover wrote:I was just wondering about you Joel...Are you guys ok?

This 1000 year flood in Colorado is just too huge to comprehend. I am pretty sure some folks who went on my river trip last year are being hugely affected. I looked at their address in Boulder on Google Street View, and saw there is a small rickety wooden bridge crossing a small creek which very closely parallels a two-lane road. The bridge leads to their place. It looks just like one of those places that would have been washed away. I think the house is up on a hill across there, so hopefully it is just stranded, not washed away.

@Outdoor Lover
We're fine. My water diversion fix after the big rain seems successful. We can always get to Woodland Park for groceries, gas etc. There are communities such as Lyons and Boulder that have suffered greater losses. The floods have been much more catastrophic than the fires.

Its too bad most of that water wont make it in the Colorado river

Wrong side of the mountain.

The Platte and Arkansas will be flowing heavily! Also, I imagine the Colorado is up a bit with all the rain in it's basin, and how is the Black and Salt?

Just follow the data page:
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/az/nwis/current/?type=flow
Salt spiked to about 4500 and is still way up to almost 2,000--would be nice to run right now, probably. The Black is up, too. I would not want to cross it on foot right now. LCR went down up here, but is still up at the confluence. Paria has gone down a lot.

We got pounded by rain on our way to Bryce Canyon NP on Wednesday, and while we were there ... by Thursday afternoon at Zion the weather cleared, though the Virgin was running swift and brown ... got our hike of the Narrows in on Saturday morning - - then on our way back to GC that evening, we heard flash flood warnings on the radio for the Virgin ... Happy we seized our window of opportunity!

RWStorm wrote:http://www.scsun-news.com/ci_24102121

Oh, my goodness! That is just down the road from me! Good grief! We don't hear NM news over here, even though Mogollon and Reserve are so close. We'd only hear news if we have friends to tell us about it, even though only 70 miles away. Kind of dumb, huh, that the local paper doesn't care to print anything about NM?

azbackpackr wrote:Kind of dumb, huh, that the local paper doesn't care to print anything about NM?

For many people, they miss the "New" and even some folks I know think Baja, California, yes, is somewhere in California.

MtnBart01 wrote:The numbers coming in from the past week's flooding across Colorado are staggering:
Saw this short news clip and thought I'd post.
http://www.koaa.com/mobile/story.cfm?n=253001

- 200 miles of affected area, including 15 counties
- 17,494 homes damaged, 1,502 destroyed
- 5 people confirmed dead, 1,253 reported missing
- 11,700 people evacuated
- 1,872 people staying in shelters

#1 weather killer is flooding. Not tornadoes, not snowstorms, not fire, not the wind from hurricanes. Flooding.

RWStorm wrote:https://o.twimg.com/2/proxy.jpg?t=HBgta ... SBqIGYoez0

This is the value that blows me away, same location:
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/az/nwis/uv?cb ... o=09443800

So much for the Catwalk...and they had just recently re-opened it, right? They have fairly recently finished rebuilding it after the last flood, which was so filled with debris from the last fire it took out some sections.

@azbackpackr
Yeah, they have had their troubles recently. Reopened part of it again, now this!

My boss said the Blue River also flooded.

I made the smart choice to do a short hike and instead watched the black clouds build as they hit the west facing cliffs of the Sacramento escarpment south of Alamo, this afternoon. Heavy rain could be seen up Alamo Canyon as I got home, and the wind started to blow from the east. Just had a very heavy (1/2 inch+) down pour for about 10 minutes with lots of hail. It was actually nice.

wow!

http://www.scsun-news.com/ci_24108670

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 825&type=1

http://www.krqe.com/news/local/roads-er ... ents-stuck