NATIONAL ATTENTION

I live in the southwestern corner of the southeastern county of Cochise in the southwestern state of Arizona.

I live in Palominas, what is called a rural area - a lot of dirt roads, open acreage, cattle grazing, houses on at least four acres of land.

No shopping centers, no fast food, no restaurants (one cafe), only one 24-hour convenience/gas store.

We don't get mail delivery or newspaper delivery except out at the main highway - the roads do so much damage. I still haven't figured out why UPS and FedEx still deliver right to our doors, but I sure appreciate it.

So we don't get much mention in national news. Our last 15 minutes of fame was way back in 1982 when there was a shoot-out at the Miracle Valley Bible College campus between the parishioners and county sheriff deputies, where 2 individuals were killed and multiple injuries.

We do get politicians who came down here to moan and groan about how open or how protected our border with Mexico is; drug tunnels which are discovered in Nogales or Naco make local news, at least.

But tonight we got mentioned in a NATIONAL weather issue:

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TUCSON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN COCHISE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA... *

UNTIL 1100 PM MST ...ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL ADD TO THE FLASH FLOODING THAT IS OCCURRING. ... 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE WARNED AREAS...ESPECIALLY BETWEEN HEREFORD AND PALOMINAS. WATER LEVELS IN THE SAN PEDRO RIVER NEAR PALOMINAS HAS RISEN TWO TO THREE FEET 6 PM. 

Can you tell that we're excited about it?