Davis Mountains is considered semi-desert, a sky island surrounded by hot, flat desert. But- its been raining here ALOT. My friend whos a ranger here said that in his 2 years of working here he's never seen the dry creek bed that runs through the park ever have any water in it.
There was a wedding here on Saturday and the bride and groom and wedding party have been camping out all week partying and getting ready. To get to half of the campsites and the ampitheater where the wedding was taking place, the road crosses the dry creek bed. Out of no where at about 6pm we get an incredible flash flood- like nothing I've ever seen before. The creek goes from about 3 inches of water to 3.5 feet and racing fast. The wedding was supposed to start at 7. The groom was on one side of the creek bed and the bride trapped on the other! In her beautiful dress with the preacher and all the brides maids- just looking at the torrent of water that was crashing down between her and her groom. I think it was a laugh to keep from crying situation for her and we all just laughed sooo hard and joked as we waited for the water to go down. She invited all the campers who were also trapped on the wrong side to the wedding and several of them came. After about an hour and a half the water receded far enough to carry the bride across and commence in the ceremony. They will have the best story to tell their children.
Same night, Saturday, I had a few friends over for a culinary adventure- we had quinoa and falafal and some other stuff- we were a merry bunch and I had a lot of fun.
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