MQ, Ray: I am making my own collection of unusual weather. My opinion is that the little changes we see in the weather patterns, melting ice, nore hurricanes and such, is also showing some interesting side effects elsewhere.
And those side effects can be posiitve but no one is menitioning since weather chages MUST be BAD!
Brief, Beautiful Rebirth
Desert Is Teeming With Wildflowers After Record Rainfall
March 8, 2005
Times Headlines
By Louis Sahagun, Times Staff Writer
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK — The wettest year on record here has transformed this forbidding wilderness of scruffy mountains and buckled earth into a vividly unfamiliar world of wildflowers and reflecting pools, triggering ecological cycles not seen before on so large a scale.
Against a background of snowcapped peaks, the region's contoured badlands and splintery rock towers are festooned with bright yellow, pink, white and deep purple blossoms spreading out in all directions. With the wildflowers have come pollinators, including sphinx moths as big as hummingbirds.
Another surprise: Badwater, usually the site of a salty pond nearly encircled by massive gray cliffs, features a lake five miles wide — and kayakers and wind surfers gliding over its whitecaps.
"It's not Death Valley at all," visitor Wendy Cutler said. "I'm calling it Full of Life Valley."
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