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3 kids lost their lives just this past weekend from heavy rain running in Tucson washes. People are warned EVERY year but it still happens by being ignored or by being just plain dumb.
Lori Michaelson
C4/5 complete quad, 25 years post
Tucson, AZ
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Date: 08/15/05 17:26:22
Subject: [QUAD-L] Sleeping Giants
These are NOT to be taken lightly. The sleeping giant here in Phoenix is normally dry 365 days a year. When it roars (from roughly 3 to 4 inches in the water shed) it flows at 350,000 cubic feet per second. That's like thhe Mississippi river at it's lowest where usually there is nothing. EVERYTHING in it's way (that has often been built near the riverbed in the past 40 years) gets washed away like so many ping pong balls. The smaller washes are equally violent in a smaller way. They however have undermined interstate bridges and collapsed the freeways right into the surging water. Nothing to mess with. We lose a few idiots each year who drive around baracades to cross washes - forgetting that the wash is now 3 feet deeper than normal. Cars just don't work well in 4 or 5 feet of rushing water. Dave[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 8/15/2005 3:25:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the County is under a 'Flash Flood Watch' until 6:30 P.M. We have had over 4" of rain in the last 48 hours.
Sounds like all those dry "river beds" are about to become very wet. Stay safe, Dave and you other Texicans.
Bill
Leesburg, FL
C-6 Incomplete since 7/20/68
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Dave
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