Monsoon time is coming – are you ready?
Tips can help Yumans prepare for upcoming season
The Yuma Sun recently ran a story examining APS’ efforts to prepare for monsoon season.
The power utility has taken several steps to be ready for monsoons, while at the same time getting ready to meet summer’s surging demand across the state.
But here’s the question, readers … are YOU ready for monsoon season?
Monsoon season starts June 15, which is just around the corner. A monsoon occurs when there’s a seasonal shift in wind patterns, which in turn bring a change in moisture conditions, reacting with the summer heat. In Yuma County, monsoons can involve high winds, sudden rain storms, flooding, extreme heat and rolling dust clouds.
So what should you do if a monsoon strikes?
The first factor to consider is the rain. Don’t drive through flooded areas, and if visibility is bad, pull over and wait it out. Should you see a downed power line, stay away from it, and call 911.
There are two things you can do to prepare for the rain. The first is simple — make sure your windshield wipers are in good working order, and not dry-rotted from the sun. Also, inspect your property, and make sure that your roof is in good shape, which is especially important when that rain comes down.
The second factor to consider during monsoon season is a dust storm. Should you encounter one while driving, pull over, turn of the taillights and headlights, put the vehicle in park, and wait it out, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.
A final factor at play is the wind. Those monsoon winds can cause a variety of damage, not to mention blowing patio cushions and furniture right out of the yard. Keeping your property clean and wellmaintained, however, will help mitigate some of those issues.
In case of monsoon storms, it’s recommended that families keep a disaster supply kit on hand, just in case of emergency. The kit should be able to keep a family sustained for at least three days, with food, water, clothing, first aid supplies, medications and battery-operated radio and flashlights.
We never know when a dangerous monsoon storm will strike in Yuma. Sometimes, we simply get some extra humidity, while other times, homes lose roofs and trees are uprooted all over the city.
A few moments of preparation before the season begins, however, can help keep you and your family safe during the worst of monsoon season.
DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS OR NOT?
Comedian Kathy Griffin, if that’s what your readers feel she is, is more than deserving of being deported from the U.S. over what she’s been allowed to get by with regarding the photo she displayed of our president. She to me represents the same scum which displayed an image of Christ in urine some years back and got by under the term of art and free expression.
Had this been done to Mr. Obama, I’ll guarantee you that we would have seen rioting across our country. I find it even being a bigger laugh in seeing those representing CNN expressing their dislike over what she’s been allowed to get by with.
What this all points to is showing as to how far we’ve fallen morally as well as spiritually as a nation, which is only taking us closer to a day of reckoning.
To be honest, I’ve had it with what these so-called celebrities continue to get by with. A week ago it was announced that Tiger Woods was pulled over for drunken driving and had been arrested. Two days later it’s being said that he was merely on medication and had fallen asleep behind the wheel. How crazy is this, may I ask?
Who’s to blame for all of this, you ask. Know that it’s all those who have placed these creeps up on pedestals and have agreed to support them financially. Those I may add whom obviously lack a conscience and will attempt pushing any button they choose to push, knowing that their money will buy them out of anything.
Anyone who would stoop to what she did regarding our president should be denied citizenship, being she’s made us the laughingstock of the entire world.
The news that the Yuma Motor Vehicles Department was speeding up their service by removing the chairs from the waiting room and making the customers stand in lines left me totally puzzled. Did the local administration or some efficiency expert in Phoenix notice that too many customers were falling asleep during their hours of waiting? Or maybe that non-customers were slipping in to enjoy the air conditioning?
It appears there is some sympathy for both these groups since the automatic customer call system has been turned off. Are the individual clerks to be responsible for leaving
Why do the actions by the city of Yuma officials gather so much more attention than those by the Yuma County Board of Supervisors, so queried the Yuma Sun in a recent editorial. Puzzled as to the difference in the scrutiny each receives during the budget process, the good folks of Yuma were urged to share their thoughts. Space will not permit a full accounting, however, the reasons are manifold.
Chief among them is the complete lack of trust and dearth of veracity in the present administration, coupled with the seemingly endless squandering of the taxpayer’s resources. Literally millions have been unnecessarily frittered away that will never be recovered. The current city administrator (acting unilaterally) has demonstrated time and again that he is without question ill-qualified for the job, yet a majority of the council continue to support him and thus further erode the public’s confidence in city government. Perhaps “Operation Clean Sweep” (of incumbents) can again be activated this election cycle and a new council will be able to begin the task of reclaiming that trust and restore the office of city administrator to one of an experienced and competent professional.
While the county may have issues, trust, veracity and the budget are not presently among them.