For the first time in months, I've posted some new photos online! I took these latest shots yesterday near the Rio Salado between Mill Avenue and Priest Drive, an area encompassing the western end of Tempe Town Lake, its west dam, and the usually dry flood channel that lies to the west of the lake.
For those of you who don't know, last week's storms caused SRP to release water from some dams that block the Salt River to form reservoirs northeast of the Valley, sending water through the usually-dry riverbed and through Tempe Town Lake by New Year's Eve.
The river was still flowing through metropolitan Phoenix yesterday, and by the time I got to the river clouds had again rolled into the Valley. Those clouds were part of a Pacific storm system that has been dropping rain and snow over most of Arizona today, so I'd expect that the river that had lain dormant for almost seven years to flow for at least another couple days.
Anyway, I was one of the many onlookers at the Rio yesterday checking out what the Salt River looks like when it's actually a river, and you can share in my onlooking over at /Photos.
8:33p ยป I put my pictures from the Fiesta Bowl Block Party online today too! Check 'em out now while they're all on the main page, because after they cycle off, you'll have to look in the December 2004 archive for the before-midnight shots and in the January 2005 archive for the post-midnight pics!
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