Locals deal with unusual rainfall in different ways
Rain in the month of May is unusual for the Coachella Valley, and some local residents adjusted better than others to the wet conditions.
By Friday morning, the sky was consistently doling out drops across the valley.
A vehicle flipped on the I-10 westbound ramp on Cook Street in Palm Desert due to speeding on the wet roads.
A Thermal man had his landscaping work cut short in Redlands due to heavy rain, then couldn’t finish a welding project locally because of unsafe wet conditions.
Joanna Boles Whitlow saw some non-rain wetness with two broken sprinklers wasting water since Thursday afternoon. Whitlow flagged down a water district worker to fix it Friday morning.
“I have been really working hard on doing my part to save water,” said Whitlow, an Indio resident. “I made sure to turn off my sprinklers this morning. I’ve been saving all the extra water to go water the plants. It was really frustrating that the same people who give us tickets for wasting water were actually like wasting horrendous amounts of water in the past 24 hours.”
Coachella Valley Water District and Desert Water Agency prohibit irrigation 48 hours after measurable rainfall, so residents should turn off their sprinklers over the weekend.
And while the rain is measurable in some places by only the hundredths of an inch, any little bit of extra moisture helps, even if it is only a drop in the bucket.
