No trips to town today, boyo!
That third photo is only about a third of the wash’s width; it’s basically my driveway, or was an hour ago. Heaven only knows what it’ll be like after the flood passes.
I can never get good pix of the flood with a point’n’pray camera. And it probably wouldn’t be all that impressive to somebody from a wet region, anyway. But to me, since I think of the wash as a roadway and not a riverbed, it always seems quite alien.
We need it, though. By early Monsoon the sand gets so soft and deep it’s hard to navigate even in the Jeep. After a couple of floods it’ll be nice and firm for a few weeks, anyway.
I agree that staying home might be a real good option. Had a flash flood locally that carried a guy’s car away.
http://gazette.com/video-flash-flood-brings-black-water-down-waldo-burn-scar-sweeps-away-motorists/article/1503346
It sure can be a little dangerous. The city folk to the south of me (Toronto, ON Canada) had to learn that the hard way a few days ago.
http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2013/07/09/hamilton-toronto-flood-commute.html
I can’t help but laugh at all my friends that got caught in this who had told me I was nuts for getting out of the city and into the country.
The chances of a flooded wash ever getting dangerous – as long as I’m not actually in the wash at the time – are extremely low. The Lair is on low ground, it’s true, but several feet above the highest water mark the wash is likely to have achieved in maybe centuries. Nevertheless, possible flooding is one reason I built the Lair on very – almost absurdly – stout piers. The cabin will survive even if awash; it’s not in any place where there’d ever be any high-speed flow. And I have determined absolutely that should that extremely unlikely day ever come, I won’t be here to participate. Me and the boys are bugging out; there’s an absolutely clear path to higher ground, and good shelter not 200 yards away. I can be stubborn, but riding out an actual cabin-threatening flood with those kind of advantages at my disposal is not my kind of stupid.