It never fails...

I always have to go to work on the best days... Take today, end of August and its 70 degrees 8-10mph winds just a perfect day, and yep I have to work... Really wish I could find a way to not show up and still receive a paycheck...

Oh, I also checked the weather stations history, we had a wind chill of 49 this morning, and a high sustained wind of 35 yesterday! I love data...

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Now that is what I call a storm!

I hope the picture turns out, it is of our rain gauge as of 5 am, and it is reading 1.25 inches, that was in one hour. Since we have to be in Prescott I've already been out scouting the roads. In a word bad. We have several exposed coverts and numerous ruts that we are going to have to crawl through. Of course we have to take the 2wd, it is the only thing big enough for everyone. Wish there was more light for pictures but I'm not waiting around for the sun...

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Nothing exciting ever happens here...

Unless you have to be someplace early in the morning. We were awaken by the mother of all storms tonight. Of course we have to be in Prescott at 8am for little ones gymnastic competition. Rain, hail, thunder, so much lightning it looks like a strobe light is on.
So much rain in fact that the wash is running. That means that our 2wd blazer may be stuck down here, and with five people having to go, we'll never fit everyone in our Jeep. So disappointing for little one. So will have to wait till 5 am and see just how bad the roads are... And maybe a bit of shoveling is in order to get the job done...
Oh and so much rain in so little time, that we have sprung several leaks in our roof... Oh yea, we're roughing it now!

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After the storm drive...

Although we didn't get the brunt of this storm here, it did cause a lot of damage to the main road. It actually took about a dozen yards of the road leaving a nice 6 foot drop on both sides of the big sandy wash. But hey the jeeps love that kinda challenge!

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What a treat...

The rain has started again... Not as strong but just what we needed and just in the neck of time. Our road was getting very soft, in fact almost to soft. Just about got stuck the other day in our 2wd blazer. With a bit of luck and some hard work our road should be very passable by mid morning tomorrow...

So I guess it would be in my best interest to hit the sack and get some sleep....

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Finally some rain!

Had a nice storm come through this afternoon... Just enough to wash out the road. Storm data from our place states a sustained wind of 22 mph with gusts op to 35. All in all we got a 1/2 inch of rain... Not bad in a total of 2 hours...

Oh and while I was locking the hubs on the ol Jeep, I had a lightning strick a few yards in front of me... Good times...

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Its official...

Today has been the hottest day so far this year, at 3pm we hit 111.4! But inside was 85... Oh the joys of a good generator and big swamp cooler!

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