Wont anybody do anything about the lack of rain?

[MT_Sourdough]

Gee willikers, I was just looking at the extended forecast and it looks like we might not see any moisture in the month of December. Why wont anybody do anything?

[mattys281]

No worries, I'm on it.

[AZ8]

I read something earlier about the latest first snowfall for Flagstaff. One guy mentioned that there's a good chance Flagstaff won't see its first snowfall until January 2018!

 

La Niña has a stranglehold on the Southwest this year.

[muledeerarea33?]

Seems like most years we get a good rain/snow in southern az somewhere in the first two weeks of December. Had a sprinkle last week. Its dry for sure! I just pissed in the back yard so Im trying to help.

[AZ8]

50 years ago this week, downtown Flagstaff after the storm of the century!

 

http://azdailysun.com/news/storm-of-the-century/article_8ea3ddb4-37ae-5aec-a8fb-de523fab4b51.html

 

[MT_Sourdough]

Seems like most years we get a good rain/snow in southern az somewhere in the first two weeks of December. Had a sprinkle last week. Its dry for sure! I just pissed in the back yard so Im trying to help.

Seems like most years we get a good rain/snow in southern az somewhere in the first two weeks of December. Had a sprinkle last week. Its dry for sure! I just pissed in the back yard so Im trying to help.

Trickle down environmentalism? Buy beer from a place that's getting lots of rain and then pee in your yard. hmmm...?

Need to drink more beer I suppose.

[muledeerarea33?]

 

Seems like most years we get a good rain/snow in southern az somewhere in the first two weeks of December. Had a sprinkle last week. Its dry for sure! I just pissed in the back yard so Im trying to help.

Seems like most years we get a good rain/snow in southern az somewhere in the first two weeks of December. Had a sprinkle last week. Its dry for sure! I just pissed in the back yard so Im trying to help.

Trickle down environmentalism? Buy beer from a place that's getting lots of rain and then pee in your yard. hmmm...?

Need to drink more beer I suppose.

Kentucky bourbon my friend. But I suppose they get lots of rain there?

[Swivelhead]

Washed & waxed my truck .....

[trphyhntr]

i been dancing for months, nothing.

[Non-Typical Solutions]

50 years ago this week, downtown Flagstaff after the storm of the century!

 

http://azdailysun.com/news/storm-of-the-century/article_8ea3ddb4-37ae-5aec-a8fb-de523fab4b51.html

 

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My boys still think I feeding them a line of crap when I tell them of the snow of 67!!!

[forepaw]

 

50 years ago this week, downtown Flagstaff after the storm of the century!

 

http://azdailysun.com/news/storm-of-the-century/article_8ea3ddb4-37ae-5aec-a8fb-de523fab4b51.html

 

20171210_200857.png

My boys still think I feeding them a line of crap when I tell them of the snow of 67!!!

 

 

I remember sitting in 10th grade biology class at McClintock H.S. The teacher, Mr. Cochran (who later became a good friend - he lived right down the street from my folks), got an emergency call from the office. It was the principal (or someone) at Payson H.S. where he had lived and grown up and graduated. They were watching the snow load on the roof of the gym, and were afraid this was the big one, the snow exceeded the design loading, and it was going to finally collapse under all that weight. They thought he might know about some auxiliary heating system or hot water piping that may have been routed under the roof that might help melt some of the snow and save the roof. He acknowledged he did not, and assumed the worst was imminent. I never heard what the final outcome was, but I knew it was serious.

 

I do remember the Governor mobilizing the National Guard to ferry supplies, fuel, and livestock feed to Navajos up on the res. who were cut off and stranded. I believe that was Jack Williams, but may be wrong. (It was a long time ago). I also remember reading a LOT about the same mobilization, dropping feed to stranded and starving antelope all over N. AZ. I vividly remember the TV news images of N.G. airlifts of bales of hay being booted out the side door of military helos and bouncing on the ground amongst the starving pronghorns. That winter storm produced a catastrophic die-off of pronghorn from which AZ has never recovered. I remember years later in upper division life science at NAU reading about how the digestive system of pronghorns did not contain the type of protozoa required to process cellulose, and the feed just bulked up in their bellies and they were found starved to death with their digestive tracts full of alfalfa hay. Sad. Understandably, no one in the AZ Military Dept. knew about the digestive systems of various herbivores,and how they would not be able to digest the same feed that domestic cattle could eat. A couple of calls to ASU or UofA would have corrected that missing piece of the puzzle, but apparently it never happened. I am not sure it would have made any difference. It was a horrific winter storm. I still think about that storm when I drive across N. AZ or apply for pronghorn tags, and realize the populations have never come back even close, to what they once were.

 

forepaw

 

[Therne]

well, i'm sorry but what can people do in regards to the lack of rain? should we *call* it somehow? are there some kind of rituals? lol

[DesertBull]

i been dancing for months, nothing.

[BOWUNTR]

I hope it pisses rain and snow for days... after I kill my December buck. The stars are aligned... Ed F

[BOWUNTR]

It's ok if it rains now... Ed F