Monsoon (1 Viewer)

[yoda]

Tucson's East side took a pretty heavy monsoon rain hit tonight, dropping over 3" of rain on the already oversaturated desert ground in 4 hours. Washes over here were running at flood stage, with depths over 8' reported... A fire and rescue team, on a call to rescue a stranded driver was caught between two flood plains down the road from Southwestern Int'l. Raceway.

Local news reports a micro-burst that lingered over the fairgrounds where the track is located, with torrential rains and 50mph wind gusts that lasted here at the house for well over an hour.

I fly to ATL in the AM; if anyone hears about the condition of the track tomorrow, can you put an update here? Thanks

 

[Toejam]

We're going through our Normal Summer Monsoon's here as well! Tuesday night about an inch of rain fell in just a half hour, it's been pounding for about 4-5 days now!

 

[none]

I heard that my shop got flooded, but it will dry out. There's nothing on the floor that can get hurt.

Alan

 

[Jenn]

We're going through our Normal Summer Monsoon's here as well! Tuesday night about an inch of rain fell in just a half hour, it's been pounding for about 4-5 days now!

We've missed the major microbursts here. Last year we had one that soaked us with 6 inches in some parts of our property because the drainage system was overrun.

 

[elvis]

About 10 years ago I was working at a steel mill in Arizona and It had rained about 4 inches one night. The next day I went into work and the whole place was shut down. I asked why and they said that it had rained last night. It only rained a few inches! Then someone explained to a dumb Iowa farm kid that rock does not soak up water very well. It had gotten into all of the equiptment and messed everything up. Not a pretty sight. 4 inches of rain in Iowa doesn't even get the grass wet, but in the desert it is shuts everything down.

 

[yoda]

Sorry to hear about the shop, A... Are you home to bail it out?

This much rainfall has given me the reason to build that new deck in the backyard- just so I can be above the ground when the water starts coming....