A few minutes later, sure enough! The biggest flash flood I've ever personally seen the start of swept through the wash. Little Bear, of course, ran to see what all the commotion was about and was right in the path of it, but clearly not so very sure it was a good place for him to be because for once he instantly obeyed a command to "Come here!" Moments later, this:
I wondered if I was going to be searching for my pistol range's target stand downstream, but as it happened the water never climbed very high and so (this time) it just lapped the bases of the targets. Wouldn't be the first time we've lost stuff downstream in our "dry" wash, though.These things can trap you at home, or they can trap you away from home. During the monsoon season, we tend to time our trips to town by the condition of the washes.
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ya know, if you had a dock you could take your boat out....ok, so you'd need a boat, too.....
Hee, hee! I'm told we've got a dock. Though it's currently a porch.
Silly thing can't spell now where were we ?
Oh Yes ....
I was wondering with all of that water how much concrete and rebar would it take to build a cistern in the base of the river bed so you could capture most of that ...
What ? Did I say something ?
Freak a person out the first time a dry wash runs four feet deep and twenty miles an hour with no warning .... lemme tell you ....
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