Missing Sunday Cafe :)

Evening Jan 🙂

It’s very “q” here tonight so far, weather is so-so with wet stuff, ground is saturated to the point of nothing going into it and running off flooding the wash areas instead. Even the helo’s can’t fly due to the fog and damp weather which causes their windows to get all wonky with fogging up the windows and not being able to see while flying.

Really tired this evening, can’t seem to get enough power to hit the keyboard even, how sad. I did pick up Haje’s meds today so he starts on that in the morning, hope it does him well.

Nice that you have very warm weather 🙂

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/8207545/Protect-and-preserve

This cucumber and mint salad sounds really good 🙂

Yay for the free-to-air channels! My Dad and brother don’t have cable or anything like that either, they do the free channels too….California has a few strange channels, Korean, Chinese, Mexican (actually from Mexico), Vietnamese and other channels plus the regular news channels.

Rising water traps 40 in Bear Canyon

Kimberly Matas Arizona Daily star

About 40 hikers, both adults and children, had to be rescued Saturday evening after they were trapped in Bear Canyon by rushing water from rains earlier in the day.

Groups of hikers were stranded in different parts of the canyon after water began rushing down through the Catalina Mountains northeast of Tucson, said Deputy Tom Peine, spokesman for the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.

Rescuers on the ground monitored gauges to determine whether the water was receding or rising, and decide the best way to rescue the hikers. A Department of Public Safety helicopter assessed the situation from the air.

The first group of hikers was led out of the canyon just after 5 p.m., Peine said. Deputies used swift-water rescue techniques – roping together hikers and flotation devices – to walk some of them through the water. Others were flown out of the canyon by helicopter.

A Sun Tran bus waited near the Bear Canyon trailhead to drive hikers back to their vehicles in the Sabino Canyon parking lot.

“The hikers in the Bear Canyon area did not take into account that the weather conditions earlier in the day might have a delayed effect,” Peine said.

Most of those stranded had been rescued by nightfall, but just after 6:30 p.m. searchers hiked back into the canyon to bring out the last 10 or so who were trapped, Peine said.