Monsoon Season (September 2014)

I had been emailing back and forth with one of our ranch (larger ranch) board members about one of the roads going through our property that wasn’t being maintained, and we believed it should be.  So, after bringing it up the work was about to be done.  I mentioned to him that we might be up that weekend and would love to see the newly maintained road, and he proceeded to tell me that there was about  a 90% chance of rain that weekend, and it could be heavy.  Ha!  Like these two Oregon people need advice on how to deal with rain.  A 90% chance of rain just means it will rain, not how much it will rain.  So, we headed out Friday after work to beat any rain that might come that evening.

Oh we made it ok, and no major rain during the night, but little did we know it was coming!

National Weather Service update on approaching monsoon.  
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Without any significant rain overnight Friday, we got up and proceeded to work on some things.  Then around 9am, the rain came, and it came, and it came until probably close to 4:30pm.  We were basically stranded in our tent the entire day.  For those of you don’t know, our tent’s name is Agnes (officially Big Agnes) and she is now a work of wonder.   Agnes survived that entire day of blowing winds, thunder like we had never heard before, and inches of rain.  There were times when the tent basically blew flat with us in it! ha.  Crazy day!

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I think there were about 2″ of rain that day and nothing but a mud mess outside.  Thankfully we had food, beer, and cards!  🙂

By that afternoon, and more on Sunday it started to really dry out.  We had some issues departing on Sunday, thanks to a bunch of rednecks and their ATVs.  Our poor road, that was just maintained and all smooth, so much for that.

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We did make it out, yes first time in four wheel drive for Rubi, but we made it.

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Now, if we can just collect all of that rain water this year!  woohoo!

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