The South Winds of Tex........Arizona!!

Is this South Texas?  The wind here is blowing a gale, with the palm trees leaning over and the fronds all headed North in a straight out fashion.

I remember Rick over in Desert Hot Springs carping about the wind blowing his hat off a couple of days ago, so perhaps he sent all that over here!!

The slide toppers flap and flop. Especially the ones over the big slide on the drivers side of the coach.  There is a half gallon of milk on the kitchen counter, and I am watching the liquid slosh back and forth inside the container.  The big mat outside on the ground has blown up over the lawn chairs and table.  The motorscooter is parked on top of it so it can't blow away.

The sky is an eerie green color and nasty overcast looking darker up toward the mountains.  The garbage buckets are all out along the road as this is garbage day, but the wind has blown many of them over. It won't be too long before we have bags all over the place.

If you want to come up with an invention for the RV industry, I would think a replacement slide topper that doesn't flop in the wind, would be an instant success.

Mid afternoon, and the rains came.  At first wind driven, but then as the rain picked up, the wind died.  I am not sure the official amount of rain, but it had to be an inch or more.  The streets turn into rivers here in the RV park.

Since it never rains very much here in the desert, these places seem to never have storm sewers.  Or even much of  a curb along the streets as well.  The rain runs down the center of the street toward the West.  There is a large drainage ditch on the East side of the 202 expressway.  At that end of the park, the streets become rivers.  I drove around some learning where water is a problem.

If we come back here next year, we need to know where not to take a site.   January can become rainy in some years here in the desert, and last year was almost an all time record for rain.  This year I think it has rained hard maybe twice.

We are thinking of possible heading out of here next week.  Our rent is paid until March 3rd but we are booth really tired of this location.  Not that there is anything wrong with this park, because there isn't, but we have worn it all out now.

We'll see how that works out!

Retired Rod