That storm is supposed to give us 1 to 4 inches of snow early Wed. morning. DFW area. Then go East to Miles P house.
Tracking directly over my place on its way to Miles' place.
Ed
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Funny thing ,I live south of Tucson,Az about 30 miles or so. I'm sitting here as I write this dressed in a sweat pants and sweat shirt and none too warm. It rained today and really was cold rain. Pretty sure it will warm up soon but the ice hasn't broken in the Santa Cruz river yet. Sadly they don't seem to run the ice breaking contests any more.
they flew these kids to the pavement today, I saw on the 6 o'clock news
Originally Posted by AzDailySun
The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office and Arizona Department of Public Safety rescued 20 Northern Arizona University students and staff members from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon Tuesday.
An NAU representative notified the Sheriff’s Office around 1 p.m. Monday that a group of 16 NAU students, two graduate student assistants and two university staff members had been camping for several days near Sowats Point, located outside of the Grand National Park. According to an NAU official, the students were participating in the Parks and Recreation Management Outdoor Education and Leadership program. The class field trip began Feb. 18 and was scheduled to conclude on Monday.
When the group tried to leave the area Monday afternoon, one of their vans became stuck on a snow-covered dirt road.
The group was able to free the vehicle from the snow but realized the roads were impassable due to a storm that had brought 18 to 24 inches of snowfall to the area from Fredonia to the North Rim.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, all members of the group are in good health. They had enough provisions and camping equipment to make it through the night, so they drove as far east as possible and sheltered in place inside the vans Monday night.
The vans were approximately 30 miles south of Fredonia and 20 miles west of SR 67. The Sheriff’s Office had intermittent contact with the group via cell phones and satellite texting since they were discovered to be stranded.
A DPS helicopter crew from Flagstaff flew to the area Tuesday morning and determined an air rescue would be possible despite low cloud cover, heavy fog and light snow. The students and faculty members were flown three at a time until all members of the party could be safely relocated. All 20 students and staff were safely airlifted to the parking lot at Jacobs Lake, where they were met by NAU transport vehicles to be taken back to Flagstaff.
During the rescue, the Sheriff’s Office has also been in close contact with officials from NAU, Kaibab National Forest and the Grand Canyon National Park Service.
actually i have a pretty good idead of where that happened, I have hunted there a number of times. I wonder if the sheriff's office would rescue me if i got stuck while being in there knowing a storm was coming in?
A buddy of mine, very experienced, was hiking Baldy a few years ago with his girlfriend. A freak snow storm came in (May I think) and they had to get rescued in a chopper along with a dozen other folks.
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actually i have a pretty good idead of where that happened, I have hunted there a number of times. I wonder if the sheriff's office would rescue me if i got stuck while being in there knowing a storm was coming in?
12 A west, on the North Kaibab. I bet Jack O'Connor hunted there too.
I think those kids had been down in the Canyon for a week Ron, they may not have even known the storm was coming.
Luckily they had a SAT phone, I don't think there is cell coverage out that way.
When they hiked out to the rim, they found their 2 wheel drive vans were not helpful in 2 feet of snow.
anybody familar with arizona, in the mountains, at this time of year, has to or should expect a flash storm that can stop you up. That area on the north kaibab can turn on you overnight. I full remember many times snow like that in north central arizona. Try a national guard duse and a half getting stuck at the courthouse square in prescott. Five feet of snow on it. Fifteen feet at crown king, 60miles north of phoenix. Few years ago i was an an elk camp near williams, heard of a storm coming and i got out. The others stayed. 3000 bucks for a road grader to cut trail, and a week later, they finally got out. As to flagstaff, i remember at college putting a case of beer on the porch to cool down, coming back about 30minutes later, and it was frozen. Point of it is that area north of the rim is pretty desolate. They were lucky.
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