8.23.06 - Did someone say monsoon?
Know Your MONSOONS! What people don't know about the desert...IT RAINS HERE, TOO!
Downpour: A large area of warm air, sheds moisture over a LARGE AREA. (you won't dry out for a long time)---read: New Mexico, summer of 2006.
Microburst: Less than six square miles in diameter. Warm monsoon air from the south rides up the mountains and must drop it's moisture on unprotected American Bikers. Arizona-type summer, 2006.
The difference? Local flooding, downed power lines, some washovers in Arizona...while NM has been under a daily flood watch for almost a month. There wasn't much two-wheeled company in NM.
THE BIG HOLE:
Meteor Crater National Park: About 30 miles east of Flagstaff, 6 miles south of I-40. The depth of this impact and the flatness of the surrounding area attest to this mind-blowing devastating impact. It is said that the shock wave reached around the world. At 26,000 miles per hour, or 11 miles per second, the huge iron-nickel meteorite,about 150 feet across, and WEIGHING SEVERAL HUNDRED-THOUSAND TONS, struck with a force equal to or greater than, 20 MILLION TONS OF TNT, carved, in less than a few seconds, a crater 700 feet deep, and damm near a mile across. Asked to ride the chopper down into the pit, but was denied access. 175 million tons of limestone & sandstone were thrown out and formed a continuous blanket of debris...so intense, that MICROSCOPIC-SIZED DIAMONDS WERE IMMEDIATLY CREATED. Pretty intense day for some local inhabitants of the time.
Riding south toward the Mex border tomorrow..
Downpour: A large area of warm air, sheds moisture over a LARGE AREA. (you won't dry out for a long time)---read: New Mexico, summer of 2006.
Microburst: Less than six square miles in diameter. Warm monsoon air from the south rides up the mountains and must drop it's moisture on unprotected American Bikers. Arizona-type summer, 2006.
The difference? Local flooding, downed power lines, some washovers in Arizona...while NM has been under a daily flood watch for almost a month. There wasn't much two-wheeled company in NM.
THE BIG HOLE:
Meteor Crater National Park: About 30 miles east of Flagstaff, 6 miles south of I-40. The depth of this impact and the flatness of the surrounding area attest to this mind-blowing devastating impact. It is said that the shock wave reached around the world. At 26,000 miles per hour, or 11 miles per second, the huge iron-nickel meteorite,about 150 feet across, and WEIGHING SEVERAL HUNDRED-THOUSAND TONS, struck with a force equal to or greater than, 20 MILLION TONS OF TNT, carved, in less than a few seconds, a crater 700 feet deep, and damm near a mile across. Asked to ride the chopper down into the pit, but was denied access. 175 million tons of limestone & sandstone were thrown out and formed a continuous blanket of debris...so intense, that MICROSCOPIC-SIZED DIAMONDS WERE IMMEDIATLY CREATED. Pretty intense day for some local inhabitants of the time.
Riding south toward the Mex border tomorrow..
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