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by acbaird from Mesa, AZ, USA, Earth

Last Post 12 days, 18 hours Ago


If Arizon(i)ans tell visitors, "but it's a dry heat," I just laugh. When the monsoon season comes to our state, in July, the sun-baked desert turns into a sweltering steambath. This past summer, we were watching the gale-force winds and sideways rain through our patio doors, when a tiny bird ran across the back yard and over into the 90-degree angle where our wall meets the neighbors' walls. That bird tucked his head down and leaned into the corner, obviously trying to escape the hurricane-like conditions.

We timed him: he stayed in that corner, looking like a child who was being punished, for seven minutes.

BTW, Anikó and I are really pissed off about this "monsoon" BLEEP. For the last two years, we enjoyed the blistering DRY summers in the northwest corner of the Sonora Desert, near Palm Springs, California. When we moved to Arizona's portion of the same desert, we assumed it had a similar climate. I mean, if we had wanted heat and HUMIDITY, we would have moved to friggin' Florida. ;-)

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azslammer1
Feb 2, 2008 | 4:19 PM

well dry heat or not in the summer, with monsoons it is worse than florida! it's a desert people not some tropical playground that you try to make it out to be.that bird probably had more sense than a lot of people that come here. they lose their lives trying to cross flooded washes,hiking without water and the list goes on! it boils down to survival!

azslammer1
Feb 2, 2008 | 4:21 PM

why did you people even move here? you should go back to where you came from if it's that bad!

retnjcop read my blog
Feb 27, 2008 | 5:16 PM

Warm and wet memories.....yeah I remember them. I was 15 and the girl I was with was 18. WOW....thanks for the flashback.

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acbaird

Alan C. Baird pontificates from his not-so-lofty perch in N.E. Mesa, where people sadly shake their heads and say he's becoming a caricature of his former self.

Member Since: 1/23/2008