AKgringo
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The desert is going to get green!
Mother nature sent Javier to visit Baja, and is going to give birth to Kay shortly. If Kay follows Javier, parts of the desert are going to get a lot
more water than normal and things should start sprouting new growth and flowers.
Unfortunately, that could raise hell with some of my favorite roads! I will be heading south to Todos Santos in two weeks, and will report on what
conditions I encounter on some of the back roads.
In the meantime, (after the next storm) I would love to hear from some of you who get there before me. Two of the roads that I plan to drive are from
B.O.L.A. south through El Arco, and one of the routes from San Ignacio to San Juanico.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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BajaRat
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Mood: Ready for some salt water with my Tecate
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Bring a tree saw, shovel and pry bar.
Have fun, Lionel 
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pauldavidmena
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The current forecast track shows Kay making landfall on the Pacific side of Baja. 
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gnukid
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It's a green jungle with standing pools of water and rivers flowing, roads are destroyed, huge portions missing from carretera and pueblo vados are
impassable in some spots, dangerous rocks across the roads. Many cars were lost in the floods this week in Santa Rosalia, La Paz, and Mulege.
https://www.bcsnoticias.mx/danos-por-tormenta-javier-arrastr...
[Edited on 9-5-2022 by gnukid]
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AKgringo
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I was driving backroads a few weeks after Odile wiped out so many roads. The main roads needed so much of the available repair crews that secondary
roads were a challenge long after the storm had passed.
The steeper grades were the last things to get any attention. I had a lot of fun on that trip!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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gnukid
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It's so green now, much more green than Odile, we've had days and days of rain, multiple days of over 5 inches a day, but dispersed, some people got
no rain, it's unbearably humid, most of my pictures are of flooding pools and rivers of rain but today was sunny and green filling in every roadside
and arroyo as far as you can see, flowers, cows and goats are happy, cars broken down on the roadside sunk in or destroyed tires, schools and outdoor
food carts and palapas are shut and Kay will likely hit Tuesday/Wednesday.
The arroyo filled a mile wide and broke through the dunes of La Bocana in La Turquesa, Punta Arena, it's fun to see but dangerous because of the deep
holes and collapsed roadsides.
There are tons and tons of birds, bugs and loud desert frogs that apparently burrow and hibernate for months or years?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CiBF01LAqLt/?
[Edited on 9-5-2022 by gnukid]
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pauldavidmena
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While it looks like Baja might be spared a direct hit from Kay, it still promises to be a super-soaker.
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