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Show 1087 " Roughly I should say the two days averaged a little less than ten miles a day. I thought we were doing very well considering the difficulties." R. 2577. " I recall very little difficulty from the sand bars on the second day. " R. 2577. " A I remember a particularly spectacular storm or cloudburst that occured in our camp at Waweep, one that broke somewhere back from the river, and we were wondering whether we would be menaced by the torrential discharge which might come down the creek. We were wondering whether that would be brought down to us. " We saw the clouds go over, and we heard the crash of the thunder. We know the rain was falling, and wondered whether the flood would come down upon our camp, and were greatly relieved the water did not come down Waweep. " Q What effect did it have on the Colorado river? " A If that came in at all, it was below us; no effect at all as I remember. " The following day there was one of the most spectacular storms I ever remember, either at sea or on land, one of the very rare instances in which I think human beings have been allowed to get that near to a heavy cloud- burst and yet entirely without danger. " Near the heart of a cloudburst, as I understand it, there is a fall of solid water; not a rain, in the sense that we know it. [ R. 2578] " We saw these heavy clouds gathering; we had been on the river but a little way. We pulled in, moored the boats as efficiently as we could against the bank, and retired, |
