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- Jul 8, 2017
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- Low desert 50 mi SE of Palm Springs CA
So would I! Problem is, when it rains here all the washes flood, making roads impassable. If it happens while you're out somewhere, it can be hard to get home!Oh Wow. I would love to get rain like that.
Last fall, we had a huge downpour here. It was traffic havoc. But at 3:00 AM, in the pelting rain, I am out flat on my belly, in the mud, in my nightgown, trying to get Chug out of his burrow.
I got him out, stood up, and heard a freight train coming..(there are no trains here). We live 75 feet from the edge of a large wash. The sound was a torrent of water coming down the wash! It was deafening!
There was nothing to fear, so an extremely irritated Chug spent the night in the bathtub, and I went back to bed.
In the morning, the pavement of the road had been partially washed away, and a pickup truck had been washed off the road onto it's side. Driver not injured, fortunately.