Sunday, January 20, 2008

Let it keep snowing, even if it is inconvenient!

Quite some time ago, around the Christmas holidays, I read in the paper that the snow pack in the mountains here along the Wasatch front was almost what they consider normal. For quite a few years, it has been below normal and we and the other western states have been experiencing drought conditions. Well it has snowed every other day since then and that was probably a month ago, so I am sure there is more snow in the mountains than is considered normal. This sounds good to me, maybe we will come out of the drought because of the more that usual amount of snow. Just hope it doesn't flood in the spring. And the same article said that in south eastern Utah there was already about 135 percent of the usual snow pack, and again it has continued to snow more. So I think that all of you in Arizona should be able to look forward to a little more water in Lake Powel this spring. Sounds logical to me with all the snow, but we will see what happens come spring. But then yesterday, I read in the latest National Geographic magazine that the west was drying out. Apparently the 1900s were an unusually wet hundred years and now we are heading into a dryer period that would last who knows how long. It will be interesting to see what happens. They had gleaned all this information about the past hundreds of years, some wet and some dry, from drilling cores from old tress they have found in various western states. It is good to know that Our Heavenly Father is really there watching over us, and that he is really in charge of what happens.

3 comments:

austinmcraig said...

I'm glad he's looking out for us too. Otherwise, it's like a cosmic game of roulette.

Nancy said...

I'm just hoping that this is an unusually snowy winter, and that next year can afford to be mild, you know when I'm hopefully living there!

pam said...

The paper today said all the mountains in Utah have at least 100 percent of what they consider normal snowpack and some have more. There has already been twice as much snow this year as there was in all of last year. There have been several avalanches and will probably be more when things start to warm up. Maybe floods too. Hope the resevoirs can hold it all.