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Author Message   BW (Bwallace35) New Member Username: Bwallace35 Post Number: 21 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 02:37 am:    I love this place.   Prescottj (Prescottj) Senior Member Username: Prescottj Post Number: 363 Registered: 12-2002 Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 12:10 pm:    quit stereo typing AZ. It's not all desert   BW (Bwallace35) New Member Username: Bwallace35 Post Number: 22 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 12:22 pm:    I know. I live here.   Peter Carey (Pcarey) Senior Member Username: Pcarey Post Number: 534 Registered: 05-2002 Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 12:24 pm:    Yeah, there's the dozen trees they imported from CA.   Greg Hirst (Gregh) Member Username: Gregh Post Number: 85 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 12:30 pm:    Trees? Those are disguised saguaro's!   BW (Bwallace35) New Member Username: Bwallace35 Post Number: 23 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 12:34 pm:    How do you know that's a land rover in the picture? Because only one windshield wiper is working. Go figure. Oh . . . and the right rear window was stuck and the seatbelt height adjustment was stuck. Oddly enough, that's the best shape she's been in . . . in a very long time.   Jess Alvarez (Jester) Member Username: Jester Post Number: 115 Registered: 11-2002 Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 08:51 pm:    Yes, well, Peter, we seem to import a lot of things from California...bad drivers included. Seriously, though, I look at that picture, and I think "Wow...I am sure glad I live in Phoenix and can SCHEDULE when I see snow." BW, you pull anybody out of being stuck like Sus did? (Doncha just love that feeling?) Hell, if I had the time, I would come up and do it just for shits and giggles.   Rob Davison (Nosivad_bor) Senior Member Username: Nosivad_bor Post Number: 104 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 10:52 pm:    i thought AZ is ALL desert isn't it? or is there some place that gets alot of water falling from the sky? rd   Axel Haakonsen (Axel) Moderator Username: Axel Post Number: 60 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 11:22 pm:    There is Pine forest around Flagstaff, Rob... Click picture to visit the store   BW (Bwallace35) New Member Username: Bwallace35 Post Number: 25 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 11:43 pm:    There is a massive escarpment called the Mogollon Rim that divides Arizona. The average elevation is about 6,500' along the ridge line. From Flagstaff to Phoenix the delta is about 5,000'. Arizona is full of surprises. I live just a stone's throw away from the Mexican border, yet I live at 5,000'. The summer's here are not to hot and right now the mountains outside are white-capped. Jess, I heard Mt. Lemmon has about 24" of powder right now.   Rob Davison (Nosivad_bor) Senior Member Username: Nosivad_bor Post Number: 108 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Monday, March 03, 2003 - 10:51 am:    yes, but desert isnt defined buy sand and hot, but buy rainfall. i still think AZ is all desert. ok, i just checked they get twice as much rain (20' a year on average) as a desert (10" a year) but compared to my neigborhood (38") its damn dry rd   Axel Haakonsen (Axel) Moderator Username: Axel Post Number: 61 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Monday, March 03, 2003 - 11:00 am:    I know that. Desert is defined as any area receiving less than 10 inches precipitation annually. Flagstaff gets 22.9 inches on average according to weather.com, and is per definition not a desert. The pine forest along I40 should be a dead giveaway to that fact..... Click picture to visit the store   Rob Davison (Nosivad_bor) Senior Member Username: Nosivad_bor Post Number: 110 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Monday, March 03, 2003 - 12:03 pm:    i'm still calling it a desert.   Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) Senior Member Username: Leslie Post Number: 1820 Registered: 02-2002 Posted on Monday, March 03, 2003 - 12:08 pm:    FWIW, most of Antarctica is a desert.... -L   Blue (Bluegill) Senior Member Username: Bluegill Post Number: 1974 Registered: 02-2002 Posted on Monday, March 03, 2003 - 12:40 pm:    Lower Arizona (including Phx) is in the Sonoran Desert. We get about 8" of annual rainfall here in Phx. This past February was abnormally wet: TOTAL MONTHLY PRECIPITATION 3.15 INCHES NORMAL MONTHLY PRECIPITATION 0.77 INCHES DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL PLUS 2.38 INCHES There is snowcap on mtns north/east of Phx - looks like the snowline is around 5,000 ft (this pic was taken about 30 miles north of Phx, looking north):   Jess Alvarez (Jester) Member Username: Jester Post Number: 117 Registered: 11-2002 Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 01:27 am:    And YESTERDAY at that. Looks like a familiar scene. I think I may have seen that one before.... I STILL like to schedule when I see it. Yesterday was scheduled. And I didnt even have to scrape my windshields. Nice Pic, Blue.   Blue (Bluegill) Senior Member Username: Bluegill Post Number: 1979 Registered: 02-2002 Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 11:14 am:    Yeah Jess, can you believe how green it was out there? I felt like I was in a Bob Ross painting with happy little plants everywhere.   Rob Davison (Nosivad_bor) Senior Member Username: Nosivad_bor Post Number: 121 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 12:03 pm:      Prescottj (Prescottj) Senior Member Username: Prescottj Post Number: 381 Registered: 12-2002 Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 12:20 pm:    Don't you mean happy little cacti and mesquite   Jess Alvarez (Jester) Member Username: Jester Post Number: 118 Registered: 11-2002 Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 04:18 pm:    Happy little palo verdes? Hmmm....