This has been quite a day for us weather wise. A storm working its way through the southwest is just getting bigger, stronger, windier and wetter. We’ve been hearing about it coming for a few days now, and it’s here. Right now it’s barely drizzling, but it’s been a steady rain all day. From what was being forecast I was expecting a steady, heavy downpour.
Flagstaff is being shutdown as of 6:00pm tonight, Sky Harbor hasn’t shut down, but any flights leaving for Phoenix can’t take off. Our home, Maricopa County is under a severe weather alert, which includes a tornado warning, flood warnings, high wind warnings with winds of sustained speeds of 40mph, and gusts from 50 – 65 mph.
It’s eerily calm out currently, 5:15pm Thursday evening, and the wind is starting to pick up. We get some hellacious winds here during the monsoons, and it looks like we may be getting them soon
Last night we were watching the 10:00 news, and decided it was a good idea to go out and get some sandbags for the front of our house. I headed out and hit two fire stations before getting to one that had sand, but no bags. So I went over to Safeway (my favorite store), got some bags and headed back. There were a few of us there, and we all ended up helping each other. Heading home I unloaded, and we sandbagged the front door.
Meteorologists are predicting that the heaviest of the storm is still on its way. We’ll see what happens tonight. Later, from Phoenix.
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