I’m envious about all the water that others get to ride around. The Rio Grande has dried up completely along its CABQ channel, which it is doing more often nowadays when in earlier decades this was very rare. I almost stopped to take another “river done dried up” photo on my ride just now. We’ve had little snowpack in the mountains this year and despite a few widely-spaced and relatively voluminous rainfalls,* the monsoon season has been a poor one. Still, we’ve still got August and Sept to look forward to. It is cloudy today and there were rumbles and spits indicating, just possibly, some actual rainfall, so I carried my rain cape and Grunden’s hat on my 19 m fixed gear errand detour, just in case.
*The local weather channels record rainfalls as little as 0.01”. 0.05” can be spun as a “storm” if it comes down heavily enough. I think we got as much as 0.1” or even 0.25” during last week's rainfall. Free tidbit: the acequia trails pack down nice and hard after even light rains, and it is very nice to ride on hardpack instead of sand. This lasts a few days depending on temp and humidity. One more: when the sun goes behind the clouds, the air temp can drop by the equivalent of 10*F. The temp at my door 072925 at 2:19 pm MDST was 78* versus upper 90s a few days ago. Lastly: durn Texans make us give them some of our RG water, per the multistate and very complex water compact to which NM is a signatory, so we can’t fill up the reservoirs with excess flow during ample times to release in times like now. The poor Mexicans haven’t got anything for the last few years, IIRC. This multistate compact is entirely different from the ancient acequia legislation inherited from the Spanish who got the model from the Moors. Back to cycling ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgt5NB8iDA%2BzJTU%3D-FWdNvGsry566EkWKtKnDg75vyG7qQ%40mail.gmail.com.
