On to Palm Desert

Today is a big moving day, about 10 - 12 miles from Desert Hot Springs to Palm Desert.  LOL.  It was windy and pouring rain yesterday with talk of flash flooding all afternoon and evening.  We went to lunch with Vonnie & Claude, Ken's sister and then bundled in.  The sky got very Oregon like.  Low clouds and no visibility.  Woke up to this in the Santa Rosa Mountains, no snow yesterday... Very pretty today, sun and snow in the mountains.  Can hardly tell that it rained in the Desert Hot Springs area.  Dillon Road is like a roller coaster with deep dips.  Almost none of the dips showed any evidence of water.  The closer we got to Palm Desert then we saw the "flooding" signs and all the mud and gravel on the roadways.  

This is the mountain that the Palm Springs Tramway is on.  We think it is San Jacinto.  Took this picture on the way over to Palm Desert.

Threats of more rain in the second storm that should hit this afternoon.  Nice that we got all moved in and settled before it hits.  This park really shows that it rained hard yesterday.  People we talked with said that there was at least six inches of standing water in the park yesterday evening and the sand is quite muddy.  Never been here in the rain before.    

This is home for the next month.  It is emptier than we ever remember  Hear that it is because the Canadian money is not worth as much.  Usually there are lots of Canadians here.  Huuuummmm..  Waiting to hear about my surgery getting scheduled and so that may change our plans.