Brian (and anyone else visiting the desert), NEVER underestimate the power of flash flood. It's difficult to judge the depth and fatalities are common! I personally watched a wall of water & debris approx. 10-12 ft high come rushing down a canyon that my Cub Scout Pack was exploring only an hour before (thanks to a park ranger for pointing out the potential danger). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqMEKA2BN7I Regards, Ed Popielarski QTA Machine 17646 Fremont St. Fountain Valley, Ca. 92708 Ph: 949-581-6601 Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. -Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYHJ1kZBMgU <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYHJ1kZBMgU&NR=1> &NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlwB1uSTUmc <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlwB1uSTUmc&NR=1> &NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqGzm841cAY Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:35:54 +0200 From: Brian Ellis <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Solderability of Tin-Gold Intermetallic NTC I had a Scotsman's "California moment". In April 1995, my wife and I were doing some tourism. We reached Death Valley and started to explore it, by car. Morning and early afternoon of one day we saw a lot, beautiful weather, albeit slightly cooler than we expected. About 1400 h, we went up to see the volcanic crater somewhere near the northern end. It suddenly clouded over and, believe it or not, started to snow and, when I mean snow, it snowed hard. Visibility was down to a few metres. And it was settling. We gingerly made our way back down and after a couple of km, we were back down into sheeting rain. Had to cross a couple of fairly minor flash floods before we were back down into the valley. We then went to our motel at Stovepipe Wells, passing the Devil's Cornfield, in beautiful sunshine, again. Not the weather we expected in Death Valley!!! Brian <http://www.nysdmv.com/media/gtsc_6_5_4_pm.mpg> --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------