Mt San Jacinto as seen through our windshield this morning, Monday, 10 December 2007For the second weekend in a row, blessed desperately needed precipitation fell over Southern California. It brought rain to the lowlands and snow above 5000'. Even though we're here in the desert hoping for warm and fair weather, we're very happy to see some rain come to this over parched region. The rain a week ago was the first precipitation in Palm Springs in 26 months.
The Windmills beneath Mt. San Jacinto. The snow line is at about 5,000' above sea level on this nearly 11,000' high peak that towers over Palm Springs, CA.As usual, the rain was followed by a gusty windstorm that came raging through the Banning Pass. The pass is full of wind generators for good reason--it's the third consistently windy place in the whole world. One old person we heard of believed the hundreds of huge windmills in the pass were fans to help cool the place in summer and she couldn't understand why they rain them on cold days. I still think she was kidding but she professed to not know what they actually were.
Tortured pictures on a Rainy Sunday.
Those of you who use a satellite dish to receive your programming will fully understand the problem we have when heavy rains fall. It's actually worse than it would be if the dish were exposed because on the motorhome it's located inside a fiberglass dome. The dome gets wet and the picture tears or goes away. RainX actually helps a lot but needs to be applied quite regularly.
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