On Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:49:44 -0500, dpb wrote:

On 04/04/2017 6:56 PM, Oren wrote:
On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 15:28:58 -0700, wrote:

We have "another" flood watch for Friday. Maybe my
weeds will drown. No such luck.


Weeds love water. The desert blooms.

One of the locals who's moved to Phoenix was in the donut shop (aka "The
Intellectual Center") at coffee the other morning mentioned how much
rain they'd had. Of course, when it does rain desert turns into garden
overnight...

We have now just had 4" since last Thursday/Friday including a couple
inches of snow here this afternoon after an inch of rain. That broke a
60+ day dry streak during which had largest grass fires in state's
recorded history...burned 60% of Clark County alone, some 375,000 A
(almost 600 sq mi).

http://wildfiretoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/PlainsFires_3-7-2017.jpg

Satellite image of number/location. This was taken the second day after
winds had switched from south to the north. It was over a week before
all were fully contained.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/08/us/kansas-wildfires-livestock-lost/


I heard your winds pick up a trailer and flipped it over,
killing the occupant. Very sad hearing this.

Not sure. A semi trailer flipped on its side though.

Happens out here pretty regularly, too. There were several I heard of
that weekend. Not this time, but actually managed to tip an empty box
car of its trucks once a number of years ago..it was sitting on a siding
by a grain elevator between two bins that formed a venturi so local
windspeed probably well in excess of 100 mph locally.

I saw similar stories. Farmers were shooting their suffering annuals
to stop the suffering. Sad indeed.

Places like the Florida Everglades may get a single lightning strike,
spark a fire and burn for many days. Killing all types of animals and
forage for them. It is a natural thing that occurs there.