This will go down as a historic week in terms of southwestern U.S. weather history. Actually, it hasn’t been too bad here in Gilbert, since we’re on the SE side of Phoenix, but anywhere north and east or west of here, the series of storms we’ve had over the past few days has been positively apocolyptic in terms of moisture. There’s word of 8 to 10 feet (!) of snow to the north and west of here, and tonight there were even tornado watches all across central/south Arizona tonight.

The rain gauge here in Gilbert says we’ve gotten 1.5 inches of rain since Tuesday, but we had a lot of wind today. My phony palm trees were blown all to hell and the tiki bar legs were actually under water for several hours but we came through alright.

I will say this: my pool water temperature has really jumped because of all the rain. Last week it was 48 degrees, tonight we’re up to a balmy 54. How do I know? Just wait until my photo expose and interview next week with “Mr. Sharkey”.

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Pool temp: 54 degrees!