They’re having a bit of water over at the other edge of the Mojave Desert, in the St. George Utah area.

Zion NP is closed due to flooding on the Virgin River, and they’re evacuating towns downstream possibly including St. George itself. Again, reference is made to 2005 and the surpassing thereof rainwise.

I spent a few days in St. George in October 1997 and — while walking down the main drag in search of non-chain food — was verbally assaulted by a group of cruising teenage boys, who screamed “faggot” at me and other such things they intended as insults. So it’s clear God is punishing the city. He is visiting his wrath upon them a little late, I think, and with a not particularly precise targeting algorithm to boot. But still. It’s an explanation.

1. 
   MBW 2010 12 21 at 6:16:27 pm

   Nah, it was the fact that we couldn’t get a campsite in freakin’ May (MAY!) 2008… And see, it’s the curse of the Eastern NDN (demi)gods (Gluskabe, to be exact)—rain!