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March 21, 2007

I guess we had high winds last night, but usually very strong winds will disturb my sleep somewhat and I had slept soundly. So, this morning when I stepped out my back door I was surprised to see one of my chairs out there had been moved several feet. Usually they are stable as rocks even in the highest wind. But the real surprise came when I drove down Indian to Palm Springs and saw that every wooden utility pole for about half a mile had been snapped off "like a toothpick." I would have thought it was a tornado, but we certainly didn't have the weather to support anything like that. Maybe there was just one bad pole that went, and the extra stress coupled with very high winds caused the damage to spread down the line.

Yesterday morning it had looked like rain fell somewhere further down the valley, and this evening returning from Anza-Borrego we actually drove through some rain on I-10. It looked like rain fell in the high desert as well. It's the first rain for us this year.

Filed under Coachella Valley | permalink | March 21, 2007 at 10:04 PM

Comments

the site of broken poles is not good..lol

Posted by: chip at Mar 23, 2007 7:50:20 AM

You've had rain in Palm Springs more recently than last June. You will recall some rain in August, another shower in December, and I think there was another shower in October or November. You've had more rain in Palm Springs than we have had in DHS. DHS, BTW, got no rain yesterday.

Desert Weather reports the last rain in Palm Springs was on December 27.

Posted by: Ron's Log at Mar 22, 2007 9:40:57 PM

Well, we are still waiting for the first rain in Palm Springs since last June.

Posted by: at Mar 22, 2007 5:59:34 PM

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