Arizona Winter 2017
So we are doing our first snowbird adventure and we are in Arizona. Honest to gosh, the weather back home in the DC area isn't much worse than here, and on some days it has actually been warmer. E...
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I lived in the Tempe area in the mid 70s and really enjoyed the weather then... It was cold mornings in the high country and hotter then heck in the Phoenix area... Coming down from the high country at Payson you could watch the temperature continue to rise the lower you got...
You could enjoy both weather worlds... My pickup truck daily driver to work didn't even have air conditioner in it haha...
This was when there was only a couple of bridges over the Salt River and when the flooding came down from the high country you had to drive several miles out of the way to get across using the good bridges. The regular crossings was down through the river bed to the other side back then.
Cars and trucks would keep using using the river bed passages until someone couldn't make it hehe... It was common place to see a Volkswagon floating down the River back then...
I loved getting in the shaded cool places in the early mornings having breakfast outside watching the sun come up on the sides of the Rock Canyons in the Sedona areas... Sure don't get to see that back here in Virginia...
The dust devils was the strangest things I ever saw... They would come up from the heat anywhere. You would see plastic shopping bags way high in the air. I also got to see the wall of dust moving through the area - another very very strange and scary thing to witness... Dust clouds producing lightning...
Roy Ken
You could enjoy both weather worlds... My pickup truck daily driver to work didn't even have air conditioner in it haha...
This was when there was only a couple of bridges over the Salt River and when the flooding came down from the high country you had to drive several miles out of the way to get across using the good bridges. The regular crossings was down through the river bed to the other side back then.
Cars and trucks would keep using using the river bed passages until someone couldn't make it hehe... It was common place to see a Volkswagon floating down the River back then...
I loved getting in the shaded cool places in the early mornings having breakfast outside watching the sun come up on the sides of the Rock Canyons in the Sedona areas... Sure don't get to see that back here in Virginia...
The dust devils was the strangest things I ever saw... They would come up from the heat anywhere. You would see plastic shopping bags way high in the air. I also got to see the wall of dust moving through the area - another very very strange and scary thing to witness... Dust clouds producing lightning...
Roy Ken
