Tonights storms

Hoping we can get round two tonight. Fingers crossed.

Good rain last night, will see what happens today.

One of the best lighting storms I've ever seen by Morrison last night. Went on constantly for an hour+. Only 1/4" of rain though.

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Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo

How true. Up here in northern AZ, it's more hail, HEAVY RAINS and a tornado, south of town. I don't want to say there was lots of hail damage.


BUT..................... there's a few people kicking back, on the west side of the property. WATCH OUT FOR THOSE SKUNKS ;)

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Monsoon season is interesting

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Originally Posted by Wulf202

Monsoon season is interesting

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AND.... wet.

Here till labor day.

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Originally Posted by FoxtArt

Just so any western travelers know, There is a massive highway construction project between Gunnison and Montrose, so I recommend people do take the Kremmling-Springs-Craig route as opposed to the Buena Vista-Gunnison-Montrose-GJ route, as it is probably well over 4.5 hours. The construction project is why the southern detour is not included in official routing. Remember folks: You won't beat the system by taking the "off the list" route this time.

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Thanks for the heads up FoxtArt, it got me looking closer at the routes. The detour around Glenwood Canyon through Craig, Steamboat Springs and Kremmling back to I-70 at Silverthorne to our home in PV is 6 hours 40 minutes and 353 miles.

Or from Kremmling I could go through Grand Lake and RMNP over Trail Ridge Road to PV for 6 hours 51 minutes and 341 miles. If I can secure a reservation into RMNP I'll go that way. Maybe see some elk and ptarmigan along the way.

Normally my trip to the farm and back is 4.5 hours and 252 miles.

Oh, and we got a good soaking rain last night. Enough to strand 88 people in their cars due to mud slide flooding in Glenwood Canyon.

It's about time there was an actual reason for traffic to be stopped in Glenwood Canyon.

We got big hail yesterday with Heavy rain here in wellington, pretty sure my roof is toast again and shredded my plants and trees. Wind blew 20feet of my fence to peices spent this morning fixing it. Just what I needed.

And we whined about getting sprinkled on walking the dogs tonight.....

We drove to the Springs today, Academy and Constitution area, at 3PM to pick up a FB buy.

Perfect timing.

Had to plastic wrap the large and heavy items prior to loading in the pickup.

It decided to pour buckets around that time. Not wanting to inconvenience the seller any more, we left to go strap and pad things down better under cover somewhere. I found a closed bank drive through to park under just 3 blocks away and started working on it. Either the bank or the metal building next door took a direct lightning strike. I just about crapped myself down both legs.

Something appeared to fall from the overhead but I saw nothing on the ground except my scat. I now think it was one of the tube capsules returning to the car lane.

Rain pretty much pounded on us most of the way home back up 83.