Living in Arizona during the monsoon is no Bueno.
I visited the Vulture Mine outdoor museum this morning, walked around, and took a few snapshots of the historic buildings. It's always interesting to me to see how people used to live 100 years ago and the difficulties they had to deal with to stay alive.
One of the first things I always notice is how small houses used to be. Having a lot of extra space to walk around in was reserved mostly for the wealthy, but the average person's home was hardly bigger than an average person's living room today.
Living in Arizona like the old-timers had to during the summer has always amazed me how they could put a tin roof on their 400 square-foot house, with no insulation under the tin roof, and pack five or six kids in that house during the summer when the roof would be so hot you could cook on it, and somehow survive with no air conditioning and not even an electric fan, not just survive but help build this country we live in so comfortably.
I guess the only thing that saved them was the low humidity. If you could get out of the house, which must have felt like being in an oven, and find some shade, even the 120° Summers are somewhat tolerable if you can stay in the shade. Nighttime in the desert is always at least somewhat cool, except during the monsoon, and I don't think anyone wants to live in southern Arizona during the monsoon season.
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Any time you’re on a horse, there’s a certain amount of danger involved, and if your going around the barrels as fast as you can, sometimes things can go wrong.
It’s something a barrel racer doesn’t want to see. Barrel racing is all about achieving the quickest times, and knocking over a barrel adds a five-second penalty to your time, making it nearly impossible to win anything.
To achieve the quickest times, the horse must turn as quickly as possible around the barrel, which means getting as close as possible to the barrel without knocking it over.
Making wide turns around the barrels adds a second or two to your time.
However, the quicker the horse tries to turn, the more dangerous it becomes because the horse’s hooves can slip out from under him, potentially bringing you and the horse down with you underneath a thousand pounds of horse thrashing around in a panic, trying to get to his feet and using you for traction.
This young lady was lucky; she was thrown clear of the horse when he went down.
The horse was panicked after the fall and ran off as fast as he could.
The young lady was okay but required some assistance to exit the arena. She may be reassessing her choice of sports at the moment. Pickleball is looking pretty good right now.