The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!!

[ezdays]

Good morning all. I hope everyone is having a nice weekend. We're looking at yet another high. Phoenix may have a record high of 113, but here in Surprise, we're only looking at 112. The record for Surprise is 117. Both the humidity and dew points are up, but still there's no rain in the forecast. That's typical for this time of the year. Forecast rain, and there's nothing, forecast 0% chance and we could have flooding.

Our house was about 25' above the flood plain so we never had to worry about flooding.

My father had a rule of thumb that your house should be 50' above the river.
But maybe that's only for Ontario...

Remember, we're in the desert and even the rivers are dry most of the time. Sometimes people are driving across a dry wash or river and get hit with a wall of water, but usually not that deep. Still, it's enough to wash a car downstream. Our wash was a few hundred feet from the house and usually not more than a few feet deep. We would occasionally have water at the base of our hill when the water would find a different route, but nothing serious. Our biggest problem was to convince the mortgage company that we were not living in the flood plain. We needed to get a letter from the town building inspector so we didn't have to carry flood insurance.