Jim Thompson wrote...
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>>>>> I'm not sure where the jetstream is running right now,
>>>> Check here-
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/USNationalStd.asp?loc=usa&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=SurfaceMaps&product=JetStream&prodnav=none
Right. We've been getting very weird jet-stream patterns the last
few years. Jim, I wonder, are you another one of the crowd that
doesn't believe in global warming?
>>> Yep. That SW wind that then swings east is doing a number on us...
>>> except our drought is over... the reservoirs are overflowing into
>>> the Salt River and there's many FEET of snow in the mountains.
It's nice to see the Salt River running again. I had a great time
running the rapids in inner tubes twenty-five years ago. There
was a place that rents them, by one of the bridges over the river.
The Salt River canyon is thousands of feet deep at that point.
Scary stuff, specially the last rapid which threw me off the tube,
the same rapid that had wrecked a large craft a few days earlier.
With one arm still over the tube I ran the rest of the rapid (one
has no choice, once you enter the only exit is at the end) with
my legs hanging down hitting rocks, etc. Anyway, it was so much
fun I went back upstream and did it again, alone. This time I
stayed on the tube.
In an inner tube your face is only a few inches above the water,
so the waves and eddies tower many feet over you, blocking your
vision and making a very serious impression indeed. And the sound
effects are impressive as well. You go down feet first, to be able
to push off rocks you encounter. Furious hand paddling to maintain
your orientation. Now and then you go under one of the standing
waves, and when you come out you can't see, because your eyes are
covered with a thick film of water ruining your focus. Bigtime fun.
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Thanks,
- Win
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