As the rain continues in Albuquerque it’s the talk of the town. especially by Eckleburg & Grumblecake at Duke City Fix. A couple of excerpts:
I love how rain is it’s own special news topic here — I was watching the news in Albuquerque do a full 15 minutes of coverage about the rain, complete with footage of the water in just about every arroyo and flooded street they could find – and after they ran out of flooded arroyos and streets to show, they said, “And coming up next . . . the weather.”
I also like the constant scrolling weather alerts that have taught me that the proper response to being caught in a flooding area is to “move to higher ground.” Some people have been getting their panties in a bunch about all the Californians and Texans moving to the state recently. To me, people from CA and TX are just fine, but the people that don’t know about higher ground — those are the ones I want to go back to wherever they came from.
And, from their “Top 10 ways to know if it was a ‘good rain’ by ABQ standards”:
8. When it is raining at both your house AND your friend’s house across town.
Albuquerque had another half-inch last night (officially).
My informants advise me that in the Big Thompson Flood in July of 1976, that in fact, many people believed that they could outrun or outdrive flood waters, and hence moved forward rather than abandoning vehicles and going up. This mistaken theory killed dozens of people, hence the need to warn people to move to higher ground.