I learned later that the entire region had experienced record rainfall in less than 30 minutes. It was so bad that a big yucca caught fire down in the Mimbres and the fire dept. It stood in six inches of water while it burned. That yucca burned until it toppled into the water, and I turned around and went home without a whimper. Sometimes you just have to know when to give in to defeat.
Snow falls up here softly most of the time.
But there's a Snow Monster out there that knows my blue Buick too. Last winter it caught me twice on my way home from Silver City. Driving in blowing snow and ice is not my idea of a good time. We had our first snow up here Monday. My ambitions for that day had been lunch in town with an old friend, a few small errands, then come home by way of the Lower Mimbres and visit with a few new friends there.