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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
You on the East side always get more rain. It didn't do anything here until after dark. Sounded like the roof would collapse with the rain for about 10 seconds...F1......?
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We are directly south of South Mountain (against the mountain) and so here in Ahwatukee we are often exempt from the big storms - I guess they are deflected from the geography. We saw a fair bit of lightening, not so loud thunder and the kind of rain that leaves your car looking dirtier, rather than cleaner (those of us in AZ are so not used to rain, mud, snow, etc. we just die when a spot is found on our pristine cars). We were eating sushi and slurping down sake from 9-11pm and may have missed a lot of the fun (bet we had more, though!).
We did have a few (2) torrential downpours last summer where neighbors had patios & yards completely flooded (to the point where we all helped pump them out with fountain pumps), but living on a lake (yes, man-made so sue us) helped with a place with which to disperse the water. It did freak out my husband who was born and raised in rain-almost-every-day Ireland - which I found kinda fun.
I've lived here (except when living in the UK in early to late 2000's) since '75 and can honestly say there seem to be trends...a few years with horrendous dust storms/monsoon and then several that are calm.
We have such little weather here and so anything other than sunny & warm/hot thrills us to bits!!