Monsoon Mania!

[Not Afraid]

What a scary and amazing experience. I'm so glad everyone is ok. Thanks for posting the destruction pics. How did the pup fare through all of this noise?

[swanie]

Originally Posted by BDBopper

Wow. I am am glad Y'all are okay.

What are pool boxes? I've never heard of them before. Maybe because I am not from Arizona.

They are the patio storage boxes you can find in the lawn and garden sections of stores. We just call them pool boxes since everyone around us uses them to store their pool toys.

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

What a scary and amazing experience. I'm so glad everyone is ok. Thanks for posting the destruction pics. How did the pup fare through all of this noise?

Believe it or not, she thought it was pretty cool. She'd didn't much like the rain pounding on the metal door, but she was more curious than anything. I don't think she barked once through the whole night.

When Mr. Swanie and I went out to fish all of our stuff out of the pool, we let her out to inspect her yard. You can imagine...the pool was so filthy you couldn't see the bottom of the baja step, lightening was still going off in the distance and we still had a bit of rain. Well, we made the mistake of not putting her on the other side of the pool fence. Before we knew it, we heard a huge SPLASH! Damn dog decided to go swimming. It was disgusting. After an already long night, having to give her a bath at 11:00 was not fun.

Last night we were able to talk to more of our neighbors. Two of the downed trees on our street fell due to lightening. There is a small street that faces the local school and the direction the storm came in. The wind blew several layers of tile right off 7 or 8 homes. In fact, the school had just installed a sun screen over one of their playgrounds and the storm snapped the cables and brought the whole thing down.

On the bright side, we had a very nice QUIET evening last night, but more storms are forecast for today. It was really a perfect storm in the world of monsoons. I can't imagine it happening again this season, but it makes you a bit nervous when you see the clouds off in the distance.