Phoenix is partnering with Food for the Hungry to adopt the northwest Indonesia village of Meulaboh, who lost 1/3 of its 120,00 residents to the Tsunami.  Most of the remaining residents have been left without food, water, shelter and medicine.

The valley will be bracing for another winter storm onslaught of rain this weekend.  Since desert land has such a hard crust at the top-most layer, flash floods often occur in normally dry washes and riverbeds.  The Weather Service heeds words of warning to people who encounter a flooded road or wash... "Turn around, don't drown".