Snow in the Desert?©

It was a freaky weather Monday, November 7, 2011!   It was very cool in the morning, but instead of warming up, it got cold, the sky got black and all of a sudden opened up and the rain came which quickly turned into hail.  Within minutes the hail accumulated to about 2 inches and the Town of Cave Creek came to a halt.  We were at the library and out the back windows, which face north, oncoming cars could not get up the hill to get into town.  So a back up began to happen--at one time there were about 30 cars that couldn't move.  Some were able to turn around but had nowhere to go but back home, some were stuck for a half hour to an hour but there were the braver ones that tried and tried to get up the hill, only to get stuck farther up on the hill.  It was a comedy of errors!  We were also stuck but at least we were warm and had things to do--it was not long-lived but it was something.  The strangest thing is that the weather on the south side of Black Mt. was completely different.  It you didn't happen to drive into Cave Creek you had no idea that this white stuff was in town!  It only rained at our house but it was very heavy--go figure!