kboyd, 28 days ago

@grmpyprogrammer it's much closer to the ocean than I expected (about 2.5km at the closest point). But I don't think it's the ocean that is flooding it.

janl, 28 days ago

@kboyd @grmpyprogrammer yeah that’s just rain

grmpyprogrammer, 28 days ago

@janl @kboyd My brain could not conceive of a place is a desert getting that much rain. Biases are weird

janl, 27 days ago

@grmpyprogrammer @kboyd this is the first time this happened in this volume.

kboyd, 27 days ago

@grmpyprogrammer @janl Deserts are weird. A place with no water where you roast in the day, yet you still have a risk of freezing to death at night. And when it does get water, the ecosystem barely gets a chance to sip it before it's gone.

cabbey, 27 days ago

@kboyd @grmpyprogrammer @janl yeah, having been born and raised in the desert this doesn't surprise me at all. We used to laugh our asses off at the folks from down by the coast that would come up and buy land, then bulldoze the gullies flat and start to build houses on them. Then the first gully-washer of the season would come ripping through in the later winter/early spring and they'd be shocked that over night there's a 30' tall trench cutting through the property.