Monsoon Storm in Tucson, AZ What To Do if You Get Caught

Hey, it's Darren and Tony Ray Baker. This is a monsoon storm in the middle of July, and we are driving to— and we're safe. We're driving in a parking lot, but wanting to show you how hard it is to see ahead of you in these storms. And this is why when this storm hits you, it'll probably last maybe half hour. It's just better to pull over and Stop the car, play a game on your phone, catch up with some text messaging. I don't know, but it's not worth driving. You can see we don't have visibility at all right now ahead of us. I don't even know how many feet. How many feet would you say that is, Darren? Maybe 100 feet and we lose visibility. It's completely— we're on a street at the Mercado and there's no traffic here, which is where we pulled over. But you can see how how hard it is to see out here with the windshield wipers. Here comes a car, and you can see how hard it is for just to even know these guys are coming at you.

The other thing is the streets here really don't have drainage like in some major cities, especially in the East, uh, so the water has a tendency to puddle and pool on the streets and just run off naturally. And so it's really kind of disorienting if you're driving along and somebody else is driving very fast and spray the water all over your vehicle, it can really impair your visibility for a few seconds. And, you know, if you're not really sure what's going on, it's totally disorienting.

There's the light rail coming right now, and it's, uh, I don't know, maybe it is 100 feet ahead of us, but, uh, you can see it flashing. But you can see how hard it is to see anything beyond that light rail. Now I'm looking down to the Mercado from where the new Caterpillar building is going to And you can't see the stoplight up there. And that's only— how far do you think that is, Darren?

Probably 150 yards.

Maybe. Yeah, it's not far. Like, we— this is a walking sidewalk here and you can't even see the stoplight and the vehicles. That's Congress right there. Isn't that crazy? So to end this, just the moral to this story is pull over, which is what we're doing now. Pull over, find a nice little spot, and just park it and wait. You can see there's mountains behind that black car there, and you cannot see the mountain range. You can't see, you can't see buildings except the senior center, which is white. Just a little bit if you go that way there to show that. See how the senior center is there? So it's really hard to see right now. And, um, so we're pulled over, and you should pull over too if you get caught in one of these rainstorms. Be safe, pull over. Don't go into any street that's got water crossing it because you don't know how deep it is. This is Tony Tony Ray with Tierra Antigua Realty, and this is Darren, Tierra Antigua Realty. Have a great day!