Monsoon flooding devastates Mojave Desert town — but also reveals its heart
When Mary Firestine woke up, she didn’t know it was going to rain. Weather forecasts for that mid-July Sunday in the rural desert city of Twentynine Palms showed just a slight chance. But that afternoon, the sky darkened and the wind howled. The clouds spit out quarter-sized hail. Water poured in through Firestine’s sliding back … Read more