ai6yr,
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Major #desert #rainfall event expected over the next week. Best to avoid camping or hiking washes or slot canyons.#QPF #wx #CAwx #NVwx #AZwx #UTwx

billyjoebowers,
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@ai6yr

If anyone is going to be out West and doesn't understand how serious flash floods are, they need to read up on that now.

Very serious.

mlanger,
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@billyjoebowers @ai6yr

I am so with you on this. Most people haven't got a clue. Moving water can sweep cars right off the road. Flash floods can bring boulders tumbling down canyons into neighborhoods. It's serious shit. I've seen firsthand what they can do.

billyjoebowers,
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@mlanger @ai6yr

We have them a lot here and people still get killed. People in SoCal are not ready for it.

mlanger,
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@billyjoebowers @ai6yr

I lived in AZ and had a dry wash running through my property. Saw it take a flatbed trailer away; we found it half buried in sand 1/2 mile away.

You're right about them not being ready. I'm wondering how many idiots will try to drive through water crossing a road, thinking their Ford F150 with big tires can handle it. 🙄

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  • billyjoebowers,
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    @acdha @mlanger @ai6yr

    When I was a kid in Tucson people used to go with their 4WD trucks and sit by the washes and charge people to tow their car out.

    ikluft,

    @acdha @mlanger @billyjoebowers @ai6yr 4WD means you're capable of getting stuck in more inaccessible places.

    ai6yr,
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    @acdha @mlanger @billyjoebowers Fool collectors, ha!

    ratkins,
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    @ai6yr Hey @Dr_Bombay you’re closer to this, where should we be looking for weather forecasts? Wunderground?

    Dr_Bombay,
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    @ratkins @ai6yr i usually watch the Nat’l Weather Service, yeah, or NOAA. fwiw, i think it’s too soon to be that worried. even if So. Cal gets a dumping, storms have a difficult time making it over the Sierra, and even if they do, they tend to be much, much weaker. And then get all the way north to the playa? seems rather unlikely.

    ai6yr,
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    @ratkins @Dr_Bombay Weather.gov is much better (National Weather Service)

    ratkins,
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    @ai6yr And it’s not like me and my 80,000 best friends are about to go and build a city in the Black Rock desert next week either…

    ai6yr,
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    @ratkins 🤔

    mlanger,
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    @ai6yr

    That would be a good test of Darwin's theories right there: hiking in a slot canyon when hurricane remnants are expected in the area. 🙄

    ai6yr,
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    @mlanger Almost guaranteed to happen.

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