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ziphius
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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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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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7/22/2013
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It was flowing pretty good around Fish Creek on Sunday.


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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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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:

National Weather Service Link
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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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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...upset

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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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7/24/2013
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From the Daily Borregan (see attached file)

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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...upset


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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7/24/2013
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BorregoWrangler wrote:
It was flowing pretty good around Fish Creek on Sunday.


edited by BorregoWrangler on 7/22/2013




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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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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7/26/2013
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Time for a Go Pro JIm....Whaaaaa?

We could start a whole new thread on that topic....

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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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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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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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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 smile 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thanks for that update, looks like the Ocotillo are green again.

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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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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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