The storms of the past week or so in Arizona reminded me of storms in past years. I found these older photos of a day in August of 2005 showing the normally very dry street.
Most of the time, the water doesn't have anywhere to go, so the cities require the builders to make "retention basins" usually about five acres of open land that is dug down to allow drainage. Some of these basins are used as parks and when it really rains, they become small lakes.
As always happens in the Salt River Valley, whenever there is a big rainstorm, all of the young people come out to play in the rain and dance in the streets.
I recognize that neighborhood!
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