At least 100 saguaros blow down in Saguaro Park-West windstorm

[Ptah]

At least 100 saguaros blew down in Saguaro National Park-West during a major windstorm earlier this week, a National Park Service official said Friday.

While park service officials say the full extent of storm damage to the saguaros won’t be known for weeks, they and a private saguaro researcher agree there hasn’t been a wind-driven saguaro blowdown of this size or larger for more than a decade.

Late Tuesday afternoon, Saguaro Park-West “experienced a large blowdown that damaged many large saguaros,” said Perri Spreiser, the park’s acting chief of interpretation. “Our current estimates are that at least 100 were knocked over. Others lost arms and had their tops sheared off.

“Other plants — palo verdes, ironwood, ocotilllo and prickly pear — were also damaged,” Spreiser said, adding there are still “many, many hundreds of standing healthy saguaros” in the area.

https://tucson.com/news/local/environment/tucson-weather-environment-saguaros-windstorm-national-park/article_417d4d12-437c-11ee-ba5b-27468cba12bb.html

[Kali]

1. wow!

ground looks wet too. how much rain out there? we haven't had shit this summer.