Some o dis, some o dat! Some nice gambel oak hiding, buried in the back, some Doug fir with a little punk and some quaking aspen that I got in the forest with my forest service firewood cutting permit today.
You have to get above 6,000 ft to get into any of that wood in AZ. Guessing it wasn't too hot up there at all.
Yup. Live at about 6800 feet. It’s been in the 90s lately but with monsoon season here it often times cools off in the afternoon to the 70s.
It cooled off that afternoon to about 75 but I was still sweating! It often gets into the 90s in the summer but the monsoon season frequently cools things down with clouds and/or rain in the afternoons.
For sure. I've been in Flagstaff when it was super hot and also when it was cold. One year during RAAM everybody was wearing winter coats in June.
Yeah, mountain weather can be kind of crazy at times. It can be 95 one moment then in a few hours get a rain and hail storm with lightning only to have a clear sunset by evening time. But you get used to that in Flag.
Yes and I remember one time we were coming in from the east then turning south toward Phoenix. It was really cold and just about the city limits it started to snow. Didn't get that much; maybe 6" at the deepest but those fools on the Interstate just did not want to slow down. Three bad wrecks just south of Flagstaff and they still would go like a bat out of hell after passing a wreck. That was okay once we got out of the snow but in the snow, that is nothing short of being an idiot. Those 3 wrecks were really bad ones too so you'd have thought that would put the fear in them but not to be...
Sadly, I have seen an almost identical situation here a few years back. Cars zooming past me in the snow while I am in the slow lane when it’s icy only to pass them up several miles ahead after they ended up in a ditch upside down. Others had already stopped to help them but people here just don’t know how to drive in snow and ice because they just aren’t used to it. Then there are the crazy drivers from Phoenix who think they are in the Indy 500 but that’s another topic altogether...
Well, one does not have to go to AZ to find the idiots who do not know how to drive in winter. One thing that gets me is the way people depend so much on their brakes. Rather than slowing a bit as they come to a corner, they race to the corner than jam on the brakes. Habits can be your friend, but not in that way.
Some people only own and drive a car to get from point a to b and care not one whit about the mechanics and physics of driving the thing. They get into trouble with it all seasons of the year.
Midas n all the mechanics love these people.....just imagine how much break lining gets replaced way before it should with normal driving. Almost every time I'm approaching an intersection...if there's another vehicle coming from either side...I ALWAYS think they are not gonna stop.... the way they decide to stop at the last second.....damm GOOBERS!
