Needles gets 5 inches of rain a year. Sometimes it comes in one tremendous storm.

This one turned Rt 66 into a sluice with water over curbs. And in the process it transformed the cliched wagon photo-location into something unique.

The previous month, a storm in Needles produced a trace amount of the hottest rain ever recorded! Details are at www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html?entrynum=2186.