Hooray for Rain

mike t · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 175 Location: Gilbert, Az

After off and on teases all day, it's finally raining hard and steady in Gilbert. Bring it!!!
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Daryl · Posted: 2/13/2003, 3:32 pm Post subject:

Eye balling the water level in the pool, it looks like between 1 and 2 inches in east mesa.
9 more inches and we are out of the drought!
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evenstar · Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 5548 Location: SCW by way of CA

Got over an inch so far in my yard.
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dennisbench · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 275 Location: El Mirage

Whew!! Its a lake out behind my apartment complex, I can't event take the dogs out, they gotta go in the rocks today, lol!
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plummer150 · Posted: 2/13/2003, 8:48 pm Post subject: re:

Rain? What the heck. It can stop raining and snowing here already! God. I can't wait to see the sun again! A nice steady 5 degrees out all week with snow and rain out the wazoo. We've already got 5.97 inches of rain and thats more than enough. April and May cannot come soon enough! Shocked

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ck1 · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 1331 Location: Mesa

Do you guys know that SRP shut down Roosevelt Dam. No water in the lake. No water coming thru the dam.
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mike · What box? Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 3134

Mrs Mike & I took my sister out Apache Trail all the way to Roosevelt Dam 2 weekends ago. I was amazed at how low the lake was. I had last seen it 2 years ago on a trip to Reavis Falls, the difference in the lake level was huge!
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ck1 · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 1331 Location: Mesa

According to the SRP guy I heard this from, it hasn't been this bad in 25+ years...possibility exists that the more of the Salt River lakes could dry if the drought doesn't curtail...
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GTG · Posted: 2/13/2003, 10:14 pm Post subject: rain and such

Keep it coming.

GTG
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srlatty · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 270 Location: Ahwatukee

Bad thing is, most of what I've seen has just been drizzle over the last couple of days. We could use a good 2 or 3 day soaking Yes

I was in a pretty good downpour this afternoon, but it only lasted about 3 minutes. That will help to green up the foothills and the desert around us, but won't help to relieve the drought. Hopefully, it will rain like crazy tomorrow: but not enough to blow out the Reavis trip for you guys this weekend!
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cakewalk · Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 512

Been raining pretty hard in Glendale most of the evening Razz

evenstar · Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 5548 Location: SCW by way of CA

I don't have a rain gauge, but I put a bucket out that would catch the rain. A little wider at the top, but still have 4-1/2 inches in it, so figure 3" of rain most likely. It poured here for a long time very early yesterday morning and again last night.
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When the Man waked up he said, "What is Wild Dog doing here?" And the Woman said, "His name is not Wild Dog anymore, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always. Take him with you when you go hunting."
--Rudyard Kipling, from Just So Stories, 1902

Canyon Dweller · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 712 Location: Denver, CO

Looks like the mountains in the high country is getting the snow it needs. hopefully the snowbowl will be opening soon again. I know yesterday about 4:00 there was about 12-14 inches of snow reported at the snowbowl. hope this keeps up for a while and maybe the forests wont get closed this summer.

I sure have been enjoying the rain here. It's nice to see it rain for such a countinious time.
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