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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSanta Rosa, NM is experiencing a "white" 4th of July - 2 ft of hail
Nearly two feet of hail fell in the city Wednesday, some of which was golf-ball-sized, according to a report from the Albuquerque Journal. The hail damaged some roofs and skylights.
http://www.koat.com/news/new-mexico/albuquerque/2-feet-of-hail-blankets-santa-rosa/-/9153728/20840166/-/wjo2rgz/-/index.html
People can't get to the Dollar General.
kentuck
(111,102 posts)Strange.
DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)newfie11
(8,159 posts)Mr. David
(535 posts)Just trying to remember where it is..
It's quite unusual.. but considering Santa Fe's altitude, I'm not surprised...
newfie11
(8,159 posts)But thought Santa Rosa was east of Albuquerque if you take 66 ( now 40 I think).
freshwest
(53,661 posts)newfie11
(8,159 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Been through many places in N.M. several times. The name in the OP doesn't ring a bell, not for me, anyway. I hope the weather is good for our N.M. DUers. It was in the low 90s in Alamogordo yesterday. Thanks for for the info.
abq e streeter
(7,658 posts)Santa Fe is 60 miles NE of us. saw this pic earlier today.Incredible. Not exactly desert there, but more like very dry (although apparently not yesterday,lol), high plains. maybe a combo of desert and high plains depending on your definition of each. Santa Fe is 7,000 feet, Santa Rosa,as has been pointed out is about 4600. Alamogordo is a couple hundred miles South/SE of here and almost as far from there (NE) to Santa Rosa.
http://www.distancebetweencities.net/alamogordo_nm_and_santa-rosa_nm/route
newfie11
(8,159 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)It might have been easier for the OP writer to edit with a link or amount, I guess. I'm thinking it was part of major storm front passing through, and hope this town in N.M. is not affected by fire from lightning strikes. I haven't been down there in a few years but they do have some very rough weather.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)"There appears to be a lack of consensus on that thread about the amount."
Such a dry understatement really makes me smile!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)timdog44
(1,388 posts)My wife use to be a nurse in Albuquerque, and is familiar with the area. Also have relatives in Los Alamos.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)timdog44
(1,388 posts)Hiding a little, but not gone.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)In solid or liquid form.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,084 posts)and was thinking it was something archived from winter.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)Darn it! I had reservations at the Sun 'n Sand Motel, too!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)East Coast Pirate
(775 posts)u4ic
(17,101 posts)In Calgary, it happens every few years, a massive hailstorm in the summer that brings out the snowplows.
pamela
(3,469 posts)We spent a week there earlier this month. Nice little route 66 town. The railroad scene in Grapes of Wrath was filmed there. We're about 100 miles northwest of Santa Rosa and got a little bit of hail yesterday but, thankfully, not that much. We're in a motorhome and that amount of hail would have probably destroyed it.
abq e streeter
(7,658 posts)And was gonna recommend stopping to check out the Blue Hole, but I assume you did.
And I guess it's not really a self delete either. Anyway, welcome to NM
pamela
(3,469 posts)We actually tried to find it once before on a cross-country trip and couldn't find it so we made sure to see it this time. We didn't look very hard that first time because we were just passing through.
We were just in your area for about a week. We stayed in Tijeras. I love the Turquoise Trail. We didn't spend much time in ABQ though because we're coming back this fall and will be spending more time in that area. I did get to meet a really cool ABQ duer though and that was awesome!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)hunter
(38,317 posts)... California kid, unaccustomed to monster thunderstorms, driving along at 70mph and all the sudden there's this wall of rain and hail falling out of the sky and we're spinning around. I think we did a three-and-a-half, one complete turn documented by the trenches our tires dug in the grass. We ended up about twenty yards off the highway facing the wrong way. Fortunately we didn't hit anything but one highway marker and the grass. I still feel bad, like I owe money to New Mexico for that highway marker, even though we've long paid the state back in other ways.
I think we ate at the Santa Rosa Pizza Hut while the only garage open replaced the tire that had been ripped off our wheel. They charged us some absurdly low amount for the labor, like $5.00, but then $75 for a used tire. I did not care at that point. The tow truck driver had already demanded $40 which was a lot of money to us then.
Still, the storm was nothing compared to this picture...
I really didn't learn to respect these storms until I lived a few years in the midwest.
That's pretty funny. Whatever koat can do to get people to click on their link, I guess. They certainly got me to.
Journalism at its best.
ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)But the other photos at the link suggest the real amount was a few inches...
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