Clouds seen through the Pine Nut Creek gap looked ominous on Monday evening, but the creek was dry around 5 p.m. Last summer, a similar storm sent water rushing down every drainage in Fish Springs.
Photo by Kurt Hildebrand.
Genoa, Nev. — Gardnerville Town Board members will open their meeting with a moment of silence in honor of former Town Board Chairwoman and East Fork Justice of the Peace Cassandra Jones. A memorial service for Jones is 4 p.m. Aug. 13 at the Douglas County Community Center in Gardnerville. The town board meets 4:30 p.m. at its offices on 1407 Main St.
Power pole fires on either end of the county greeted August on Monday. Nevada Energy reported 224 customers without power after a pole caught fire near Ballman Way and Topaz Ranch Drive at around 5 p.m. Another fire around 1:20 p.m. at Lower Kingsbury only affected a single customer.
A flood advisory for the Numbers burn scar in the Pine Nuts issued around 4:15 p.m. didn’t seem to produce much flooding. The clouds were there, and it looked like it was coming down in the mountains, but I made the run around Fish Springs and up East Valley, and the drainages were pretty dry at 5:30 p.m. I’ll make another run this morning and see if there’s anything.
I’m getting reports that Minden finally got some rain on Monday evening and again overnight. I don’t have anything official, yet, but if it happened to hit the gauge, it will break the 82-day dry spell in the Douglas County seat. The gauge at the Fish Springs recorded .07 inches in the evening.
We may see some more later this week as the chance of thunderstorms remains in the forecast into next week. Today there’s a slight chance 2-5 p.m. Expect mostly sunny skies with a high near 89 degrees and the wind 5-10 mph out of the west. Gusts could hit 20 mph.
Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Reach him at khildebrand@recordcourier.com
