Don't Like the Weather?

From 80s over the weekend to snow/rain a few days later, if you don't like the weather in the desert -- stick around. It'll change.

"Our" storm is moving out, heading east after leaving snow up the grade that began falling as I left for home after teaching my Wed class. It was in the 50s when I arrived on campus and in the 40s when I left, with the snow heralded by freezing rain all the way home and low clouds hovering over the mountains surrounding the highway. Cold here all night, with assorted power outages again and again and again in the same spots that always have to do without power if it rains, the wind blows, or a line falls onto a wooden fence and starts a fire.

Our infrastructure was poorly constructed over the 50 years this crappy community developed and no one has done anything to upgrade it as the utility companies are all too busy on the other side of I-10, the important side where all the tourists spend their money. The local streets are dirt spottily covered with patches of asphalt: no sidewalks, no curbs, no rain gutters. Main street is well-defined, but go one block either side of it and it's rural community between the isolated private gated communities that boast of their amenities, but I bet their power was out all last night, too!