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Record rainfall swamps Southwest

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Record rainfall swamps Southwest

Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport recorded 3.29 inches of rain, which broke the all-time calendar day record total of 2.91 inches, the National Weather Service reported.​


3.29 freegin inches drowned phoenix. 3.29... unreal.

I lived in phoenix for 12 years but I grew up in south Georgia where there is more rainfall there per year than they get in Seattle. Talk about a culture shock when I moved there. Can't believe 3.29 inches did this to Phoenix. No drainage and it's also a valley so the rainfall on the mountains run down and fill the bowl.
 
Is this caused by global warming?
 
poweRob said:
Record rainfall swamps Southwest

Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport recorded 3.29 inches of rain, which broke the all-time calendar day record total of 2.91 inches, the National Weather Service reported.​



3.29 freegin inches drowned phoenix. 3.29... unreal.

I lived in phoenix for 12 years but I grew up in south Georgia where there is more rainfall there per year than they get in Seattle. Talk about a culture shock when I moved there. Can't believe 3.29 inches did this to Phoenix. No drainage and it's also a valley so the rainfall on the mountains run down and fill the bowl.
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Have you seen the pics of ppl swimming in the parks, and riding their boats in the street?
 
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herenow1 said:
That's right, you used to live in Sunny slope. Have you seen the pics of ppl swimming in the parks, and riding their boats in the street?
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I haven't seen that. Just the cars floating in the road.
 
Well, its a political forum not a weather forum. There's a weather channel you may be interested in. Its widely available. Also, weather.com. You can get radar maps and everything.


poweRob said:
Thread politicized by a winger in record time. Go figure.
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TobyOne said:
Well, its a political forum not a weather forum. There's a weather channel you may be interested in. Its widely available. Also, weather.com. You can get radar maps and everything.
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Let's see, this is the "Breaking News - Mainstream Media" subforum.

breaking news ... check
mainstream media ... check

Sorry, charlie, but it looks like your complaint has no merit.
 
I got up to pee at 0230 this morning, heard a sound like a jet overhead...got louder, then rain...big rain.

Spent all my life in this town and this was the most intense amount of rain at once. As my house has an added part to it, which is below the rest of the house, I raced to my patio. Unplugged the extension cords to my hydroponic tomatoes and got to the push broom. Water was 3/4 of the way up to the house, there I am, naked as the eyes of a clown, pushing water into the yard for 45 minutes straight, with a side trip to the pool pump to turn on the backwash, lest the pool overflow. Forget about the koi pond overflowing....

Lot of work in the early hours, and of course the flat foam roof part of the house was leaking, I went up and spread a few gallons of paste over all the other areas I haven't already hit....pumped out a few inches from the pool, bailed out about 35 gallons from the pond. It was nuts. Thankfully, I work at home, so I didn't have to brave the mess out there on the roads.

We get about 8-9 inches of rain a year, my area of PHX got over 4 inches in a few hours today.
 
At 0630 I decided to drive to Circle K and get some coffee, the roads were a mess, the city had been out dumping gravel and dirt in spots to make it more drive able.

Crazy stuff, glad that the regular arched roof held, it needs to be redone soon.
 
TobyOne said:
Well, its a political forum not a weather forum. There's a weather channel you may be interested in. Its widely available. Also, weather.com. You can get radar maps and everything.
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BENGHAZI!!!!1111!!!!!!

It's all around us.
 
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Taken on a walk earlier.
We got 3.something here in Gilbert, too, but Tempe and Chandler each got over 5 inches.
You can see what even 3 inches can do to our run-off areas. This used to be a wide open area with a walking path. Now it's a swamp complete with swimming kids.

And here's the other direction....

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A church field turned into a lake.
 
poweRob said:
Record rainfall swamps Southwest

Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport recorded 3.29 inches of rain, which broke the all-time calendar day record total of 2.91 inches, the National Weather Service reported.​


3.29 freegin inches drowned phoenix. 3.29... unreal.

I lived in phoenix for 12 years but I grew up in south Georgia where there is more rainfall there per year than they get in Seattle. Talk about a culture shock when I moved there. Can't believe 3.29 inches did this to Phoenix. No drainage and it's also a valley so the rainfall on the mountains run down and fill the bowl.
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We discussed this a little in the tavern.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/ask-your-bartender/204148-do-you-stop.html

They actually reported 5" in Chandler. I've lived in Arizona since 1967 (except for 3 years in the Army) and never experienced anything like it. They say it's the wettest day in Phoenix since they started keeping records in 1895.
 
beefheart said:
We get about 8-9 inches of rain a year, my area of PHX got over 4 inches in a few hours today.
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Gilbert just got the edge of it, I think. Plenty to turn runoff areas into lakes with a bit of street flooding, but my pool was a good distance away from overflowing and our rock riverbed was sadly not full of water.

I've been waiting for that one big storm of the year that ushers in the colder weather. I'm more than a little annoyed it happened at night.
 
azgreg said:
We discussed this a little in the tavern.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/ask-your-bartender/204148-do-you-stop.html

They actually reported 5" in Chandler. I've lived in Arizona since 1967 (except for 3 years in the Army) and never experienced anything like it. They say it's the wettest day in Phoenix since they started keeping records in 1895.
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It's a rather wet year here in NM as well. Things are green that should be. lol

We have the same fear here that we all did when I lived in AZ and it was a wet year... "oh ****... that's gonna be a lot of fuel for next year's fires when it turns brown."
 
Dave Mittner said:
Gilbert just got the edge of it, I think. Plenty to turn runoff areas into lakes with a bit of street flooding, but my pool was a good distance away from overflowing and our rock riverbed was sadly not full of water.

I've been waiting for that one big storm of the year that ushers in the colder weather. I'm more than a little annoyed it happened at night.
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Lets just say I am thankful I didn't go away for the weekend, I would have come back to a flooded house.
 
Dave Mittner said:
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Taken on a walk earlier.
We got 3.something here in Gilbert, too, but Tempe and Chandler each got over 5 inches.
You can see what even 3 inches can do to our run-off areas. This used to be a wide open area with a walking path. Now it's a swamp complete with swimming kids.

And here's the other direction....

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A church field turned into a lake.
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Next up... West Nile outbreak in AZ.

Thanks for the pics. Awesome shots.
 
poweRob said:
It's a rather wet year here in NM as well. Things are green that should be. lol

We have the same fear here that we all did when I lived in AZ and it was a wet year... "oh ****... that's gonna be a lot of fuel for next year's fires when it turns brown."
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Glass half empty kind of guy huh? :2razz:
 
azgreg said:
Glass half empty kind of guy huh? :2razz:
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lol... a little. I love green. It was the hardest adaptation of moving from the swamps to the desert. Missing the green. The first year I moved to AZ South Mountain got soooooo green over the winter rain. It was awesome. The rest of the 12 years I was there it never got that green again.
 
poweRob said:
lol... a little. I love green. It was the hardest adaptation of moving from the swamps to the desert. Missing the green. The first year I moved to AZ South Mountain got soooooo green over the winter rain. It was awesome. The rest of the 12 years I was there it never got that green again.
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I've planted lots of Hawaiian plants around my house, bamboo, passion fruit, plumeria, papaya, pineapple, banana, I get my green in, and lots of herbs and the super food, moringa. Got to have some green where I live.
 
beefheart said:
I've planted lots of Hawaiian plants around my house, bamboo, passion fruit, plumeria, papaya, pineapple, banana, I get my green in, and lots of herbs and the super food, moringa. Got to have some green where I live.
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When I had a house up in the former flood plains of the Savannah river... the soil was so rich you always smelled it. Really dark. Taking care of your plants was the aboslute opposite of living in arizona. In AZ you had to work your ass off to get things to grow. IN GA you had to work your ass off to remove things you didn't want that would grow and choke out what you did want growing. I bought a house that was an older ladies house and she passed away. She clearly got up in age and let the yard go. I literally had a daffodil infestation. You could see where she made areas where she started having the daffodils and then they spilled out into the whole yard and took over. I'd mow them down and they'd come back. I know it sounds weird.. "why would you mow down daffodils..." but I wanted them in some areas and not others. It was bizarre.

The worst was that I was never able to get control of the damn poison ivy. I caught it every single year I was there. It would grow up into my house's siding and I had to pull it out.
 
poweRob said:
When I had a house up in the former flood plains of the Savannah river... the soil was so rich you always smelled it. Really dark. Taking care of your plants was the aboslute opposite of living in arizona. In AZ you had to work your ass off to get things to grow. IN GA you had to work your ass off to remove things you didn't want to grow and choke out what you did want growing. I bought a house that was an older ladies house and she passed away. She clearly got up in age and let the yard go. I literally had a daffodil infestation. You could see where she made areas where she started having the daffodils and then they spilled out into the whole yard and took over. I'd mow them down and they'd come back. I know it sounds weird.. "why would you mow down daffodils..." but I wanted them in some areas and not others. It was bizarre.
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Not hard to get passion fruit or bamboo or moringa to grow..trust me!
 
beefheart said:
Not hard to get passion fruit or bamboo or moringa to grow..trust me!
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I'm not a green thumb. I killed Oleanders. They say that's damn near impossible to do in AZ. I couldn't get them to grow. Of course the stray cats pissing on them and digging around them soon after I planted them didn't help either.
 
poweRob said:
I'm not a green thumb. I killed Oleanders. They say that's damn near impossible to do in AZ. I couldn't get them to grow. Of course the stray cats pissing on them and digging around them soon after I planted them didn't help either.
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Moringa grows so fast, I have to cut 2 feet off the top every few weeks. The leaves are among the highest in vitamins and iron, you can eat them, dry them and take them as pills, etc. They have been planting them in drought areas in Africa, they don't need much to grow, and you can use all of the plant. Amazing thing.
 
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