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Old 09-21-2014, 08:15 AM
 
Location: Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
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How far off I sat and wondered

Started humming a song from 1962...

Thought something was wrong with the ceiling fan. Sounded like the motor was laboring bad. Oh, it's a heavy rain shower. Sunday's a no sprinkler day anyway.
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Old 09-21-2014, 10:42 AM
 
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All of a sudden, you guys are getting a lot of rain out there.
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Old 09-21-2014, 11:01 AM
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Location: Las Vegas
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I loathe rain. I moved here to get away from it, but it's cool so long as it happens on the weekends. I am tired of seeing a bath tub ring around Lake Mead. I want to see the lake full again.
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Old 09-21-2014, 11:15 AM
 
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Then hope is snows a hell of a lot in Colorado. Whatever precipitation NV gets is a drop in the bucket. You need several good snow years in the Rockies.

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I loathe rain. I moved here to get away from it, but it's cool so long as it happens on the weekends. I am tired of seeing a bath tub ring around Lake Mead. I want to see the lake full again.
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Old 09-21-2014, 11:31 AM
 
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We love rain. Of course we come from Iowa so it has a different result than here (not so much flash flooding), but it doesn't smell right when it rains. We sat out on the patio last night watching the rain and lightning. So nice.
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Old 09-21-2014, 06:20 PM
 
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I love the smell of rain in the desert!
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Old 09-21-2014, 06:26 PM
 
Location: In the Silver State of Nevada in Las Vegas NV
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More hurricanes cross Mexico more moisture gets pushed towards LV as long as the jet stream stays where it is now.
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Old 09-22-2014, 01:14 AM
 
Location: Sunrise
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Then hope is snows a hell of a lot in Colorado. Whatever precipitation NV gets is a drop in the bucket. You need several good snow years in the Rockies.
And it's got to be on the west side of the Rockies. All that flooding last year in Colorado went to the Gulf of Mexico.

I think Leonard Cohen had it right about "The Future." Places are going to either have way too much water at all the wrong times. Or they're going to deal with sustained drought. There isn't going to be a happy medium. And it's almost pointless to use past performance to predict future results. A change in current, or jet stream and the local climate flips 180-degrees.


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Old 09-22-2014, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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I loathe rain. I moved here to get away from it, but it's cool so long as it happens on the weekends. I am tired of seeing a bath tub ring around Lake Mead. I want to see the lake full again.
It could rain everyday for the entire year in Las Vegas and you wouldn't see Lake Mead rise an inch. The water in the Colorado River comes from snowmelt in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. And not even the entire range ...just the west slope. A little Las Vegas trivia there.
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Old 09-22-2014, 02:28 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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Not sure about the actual stats, but it does seem like this has been an unusually wet summer. That happens only when it isn't being an unusually dry summer.

We enjoy the rain here because it doesn't happen often. But I agree....enough is enough. At least until I get the crack in one of my roof parapets fixed.
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