Van: Welcome to our little community. I live in Texas, you know, the place whose inhabitants invade your state summer and winter? I had quite an adventure myself in southern Colorado last July. I was at the Comanche Nat'l Grassland, and got caught in a flash flood in Carrizo Canyon. Not a good situation. I made a break for the highway, a mere 25 miles away, and the gravel road was washed out five times. I barely made it out in my Jeep.
It was quite an adventure. I had been camping and had to stuff my tent, which contained my sleeping bag and pad, into the back of the Jeep in a torrential downpour, then brave the onslaught all the way back to the highway. I collapsed in hotel in Springfield that night when all was said and done. I had run into a county sheriff's officer that evening, before this happened, and asked him about the weather. "It'll be fine," he said non-portentously.
Live and learn, I guess. Welcome to Bird Forum
Steve Gross
Houston, TX