Whew, flash floods and we were there in DHS

Wendy and I went to KMart in Desert Hot Springs today, and after about an hour we looked outside, and yoicks, there were flash floods happening right outside the store. What had been a quiet road an hour before was now a raging torrent whipping through the parking lot, along the curbside, and across the intersections. Chaos everywhere, and lashing rain still.

A lady in the KMart parking lot begged a ride home as the bus was nowhere to be seen, and she was already soaked, so Wendy and I drove her uphill to her house. All traffic lights were blinking red, traffic was snarled as the curbside lane was now a river about 6 - 10 feet wide and full of muddy water, the stop and go procedure at least slowed down some, but made each intersection a disaster too, to be carefully navigated.

The water was streaming along their brand new landscaping and sidewalk designs in DHS. Pouring down the hill from the desert hills into the town, carving gulleys and leaving boulders, tumbleweed, inches of mud and silt, and disasters everywhere.

The rain brought down huge boulders and garbage including empty garbage cans, and was full of silt, people's homes were getting flooded, and chaos was everywhere. We spied a man and his son walking up the road carrying their shoes, and people would cross the road then not be able to reach the sidewalks due to the heavy flowing puddles, now rivers.

Wendy and I stayed up on higher ground once we delivered the thankful lady to her home, and slowly made our way along silt and debris covered roads, back home. All thoughts of grocery shopping were abandoned, we just thought of getting home safe and sound. I was so glad that our car is a bit higher, some lower ones were much more challenged by the deep water.

The rain gouged out holes and made a real wreck of many roads, leaving so much litter and muddy silt behind, and a real mess on so many roads.

Wendy and I ate lunch at home, and chatted, Lary and Dave were carving on their owls over at the neighbouring RV park.

We 4 had a drink here once they finished and came here, tomorrow Wendy and Dave will move over to Catalina Spa RV park, and become our neighbours here on Corkill Road off Dillon Road.

In KMart today Guenther and Katarina Glaesing had spoken to us, it was nice to see them, as we hadn't visited them since they arrived in late November. They are at Sands RV and Golf park, just down Dillon from us about 10 minutes by car. They had fun in their small low VW Golf, even though it is diesel, it is very low when the water is rising and threatening.