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Monsoon is a Season in Arizona

by Dru Bloomfield on August 6, 2009

photo credit: midiman My family moved to Phoenix in 1969, and some of my best summer memories are of the monstrous dust storms and huge, torrential rains.  When it was over, we’d run outside and play in the rivers of water running down the street. When I talk to newcomers to the Phoenix area and [...]

Are you prepared? Summer monsoons have arrived

by Dru Bloomfield on July 11, 2008

It’s not often we wake up to cloudy skies and a light drizzle.  Leftovers from last nights monsoon. Since I live just off the Indian Bend Wash, the major flood control channel for Scottsdale, I can usually tell how heavy the rain was the night before by the helicoptor traffic. This morning the news choppers [...]