[Rockhounds] (OT) Hurricane Lane

[J Bryan Kramer]

In Le Chelly Canyon we saw rain falling from the clouds that never hit
the ground... dried up while falling. Weirdest sight!"

That's common out in the western US and even has a name: Virga

BK

“The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that
Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what
thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”

Thomas Sowell

J Bryan Krämer       North Florida, USA
photos at: http://pbase.com/photoburner
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 12:26 PM gary brown <gbrown at catspaw-minerals.com> wrote:
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> What's going to be interesting is that all the light-weight deposits from the recent eruption are going to get washed away.  There's going to be some pretty gunky-looking streams and estuaries!
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> Also...  the waterfalls.  Oh.  My.  THE WATERFALLS.  I keep thinking of the Pipiwai Trail to Waimoku Falls.  Lot's of signs warning you to NOT go into the gorge as in "People have died here".
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> Madame Pele builds up and Lono washes it away.
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> GcB
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