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ziphius Posts: 911
7/22/2013
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I kept looking wistfully to the east yesterday, hoping that the desert was getting some rain and wishing I was there....
A check of the rain gauge data for the past 24-hr period indicates both Borrego Springs (1.68 inches) and Canebrake (1.71) got a lot of rainfall:
24-hr rainfall totals
I hope some of the sheep watering holes got filled up. Any reports from 'boots on the ground' out there?
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DesertWRX Posts: 135
7/22/2013
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Got back to Borrego this morning and most of the town is showing signs of flowing water everywhere! I will have to do some work to repair one end of our driveway. Can't wait to get offroading and see what the washes look like.
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AdventureGraham Posts: 170
7/22/2013
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It was flowing pretty good around Fish Creek on Sunday.
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2624
7/23/2013
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@Borrego: That looks like you were right in the middle of it, did you take that from the highway?
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ziphius Posts: 911
7/23/2013
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Nice to see all that water @ Fish Creek! Looks like Borrego Palm Canyon got over 2 inches in the last 3 days, the area up near Warner Springs and Coyote Creek got quite a bit too. Riverside County got hit yesterday. I found a better link to rainfall totals for the San Diego County region:
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AdventureGraham Posts: 170
7/23/2013
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dsefcik wrote:
@Borrego: That looks like you were right in the middle of it, did you take that from the highway?
Nope, it was actually in the area between Carrizo Wash and Split Mountain Road, just outside the park boundary.
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2624
7/24/2013
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Jim (ziphius) wrote:
Nice to see all that water @ Fish Creek! Looks like Borrego Palm Canyon got over 2 inches in the last 3 days, the area up near Warner Springs and Coyote Creek got quite a bit too. Riverside County got hit yesterday. I found a better link to rainfall totals for the San Diego County region:
National Weather Service Link The link did not work...
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2624
7/24/2013
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BorregoWrangler wrote:
dsefcik wrote:
@Borrego: That looks like you were right in the middle of it, did you take that from the highway?
Nope, it was actually in the area between Carrizo Wash and Split Mountain Road, just outside the park boundary. Having a hard time picturing where you are referring to. A friend of mine who lives in town sent some pictures showing pretty good rain out there, almost 2 inches on Sunday.
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2624
7/24/2013
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From the Daily Borregan (see attached file)
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ziphius Posts: 911
7/24/2013
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dsefcik wrote:
Jim (ziphius) wrote:
Nice to see all that water @ Fish Creek! Looks like Borrego Palm Canyon got over 2 inches in the last 3 days, the area up near Warner Springs and Coyote Creek got quite a bit too. Riverside County got hit yesterday. I found a better link to rainfall totals for the San Diego County region:
National Weather Service Link The link did not work...
I think I fixed it: National Weather Service Link Nice photos from Daily Borregan, kids having fun playing in the water midsummer.....
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tommy750 Posts: 1049
7/24/2013
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BorregoWrangler wrote:
It was flowing pretty good around Fish Creek on Sunday.
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You were out on BLM 085? A lot of that below Split Mt Rd gets pretty treacherous when wet. Nice pic. Tom
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tommy750 Posts: 1049
7/25/2013
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Here's a video of Ocotillo activist Jim Pelley driving some Ocotillo Wind access roads during the recent storm. Pretty amazing footage. Tom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gtEdOm9d38
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2624
7/26/2013
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Time for a Go Pro JIm....
We could start a whole new thread on that topic....
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AdventureGraham Posts: 170
7/26/2013
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tommy750 wrote:
Here's a video of Ocotillo activist Jim Pelley driving some Ocotillo Wind access roads during the recent storm. Pretty amazing footage. Tom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gtEdOm9d38
Great video! I love being out there in those conditions! You just gotta be careful depending on where you are.
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anutami Posts: 491
7/29/2013
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tommy750 wrote:
Here's a video of Ocotillo activist Jim Pelley driving some Ocotillo Wind access roads during the recent storm. Pretty amazing footage. Tom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gtEdOm9d38
That is an amazing video!!!!!
Check out the parks website on how the mighty ocotillo copes with the summer rain!
http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=638
I have a new respect for the desert in the summer months!!! I think we will have to plan a summer trip soon!!!!
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2624
7/30/2013
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Nolan (anutami) wrote:
Check out the parks website on how the mighty ocotillo copes with the summer rain!
http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=638
Sam had just sent me that photo, he is also a volunteer at the VC, he is a god guy.
Have a look at this video from souther Utah
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tommy750 Posts: 1049
7/30/2013
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Nolan (anutami) wrote:
tommy750 wrote:
Here's a video of Ocotillo activist Jim Pelley driving some Ocotillo Wind access roads during the recent storm. Pretty amazing footage. Tom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gtEdOm9d38
That is an amazing video!!!!!
Check out the parks website on how the mighty ocotillo copes with the summer rain!
http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=638
I have a new respect for the desert in the summer months!!! I think we will have to plan a summer trip soon!!!!
That's an amazing transformation! The Torote tree flowers are really bizarre with differing number of petals depending on the sex. Had to look up dioecious  Wonder if the flower's "sex" changes with the seasonal weather since they never noticed the perfect flowers before. Nice link, Nolan. Tom
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tommy750 Posts: 1049
7/30/2013
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dsefcik wrote:
Nolan (anutami) wrote:
Check out the parks website on how the mighty ocotillo copes with the summer rain!
http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=638
Sam had just sent me that photo, he is also a volunteer at the VC, he is a god guy.
Have a look at this video from souther Utah
Now, that is an amazing video. Would be a little harder to pull off here since the upper watershed is not that far away but I would love to try it! Tom
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7/30/2013
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tommy750 wrote:
Now, that is an amazing video. Would be a little harder to pull off here since the upper watershed is not that far away but I would love to try it! Tom Let me know when you go..I was thinking the same thing....
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ziphius Posts: 911
7/30/2013
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In that southern UT video, I found myself wondering how many rattlesnakes must have been moved many miles in the debris flow. Rattlers sometimes show up on southern CA beaches after heavy winter rains, washed downstream. Sometimes there are a lot of them:
Surfing snakes hit the beach
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2624
7/30/2013
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Is this just a phenomena of man induced landscape changes or is it something that has been happening forever?
Jim (ziphius) wrote:
Rattlers sometimes show up on southern CA beaches after heavy winter rains, washed downstream. Sometimes there are a lot of them:
Surfing snakes hit the beach
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ziphius Posts: 911
7/31/2013
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dsefcik wrote:
Is this just a phenomena of man induced landscape changes or is it something that has been happening forever?
Jim (ziphius) wrote:
Rattlers sometimes show up on southern CA beaches after heavy winter rains, washed downstream. Sometimes there are a lot of them:
Surfing snakes hit the beach
I don't *know* for sure, but I'm guessing this is a natural phenomenon. Especially during El Nino type rains, when erosion can be so heavy upstream that snakes (and other critters) get washed out of their hiding places.
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DesertWRX Posts: 135
8/1/2013
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Drove up Fish Creek yesterday and it was interesting to see the change. Especially after it was modified pretty good 1 year ago by Mother Nature! No minivans going up there anytime soon!
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2624
8/1/2013
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DesertWRX wrote:
Drove up Fish Creek yesterday and it was interesting to see the change. Especially after it was modified pretty good 1 year ago by Mother Nature! No minivans going up there anytime soon! Did you snap any photos? Why no minivans, boulders, deep sand..??
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DesertWRX Posts: 135
8/3/2013
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Like 1 year ago (exactly) the surface of Fish Creek changed after the storm. You need high ground clearance to get over the scattered rocks and sandstone outcroppings. As more people use the road it will probably soften up too.
Some Bighorn sheep going around corner of hill...
Road...
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2624
8/3/2013
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Thanks for that update, looks like the Ocotillo are green again.
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DesertWRX Posts: 135
8/4/2013
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The next day after the rains the ocotillo had 1/8" long green buds and 2 days later lush leaves!
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ziphius Posts: 911
8/5/2013
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Not Anza Borrego, but a really cool AZ flash flood in a slot canyon. The 1:20 video mark is especially awesome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_VD5GxluHN8
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