Message posted by JoeinTX on April 26, 2008 at 21:45:32 PST:

Being a "dry" lakebed it no longer exists in a area where moisture patterns allow it to become "wet" to any real extent. You would have to have a serious, prolonged, and consistent increase in rainfall over a period of years for a dry bed like Groom to pose any serious problem to the base or the airstrips themselves. I would guess that they are in a area of Nevada that receives at most 10" per year total moisture.......maybe 15" in a good year. That's hardly enough to settle the dust 3 days out of 4. Saturate the desert floor and hold large amounts of water over a long period? Not even close....

In Reply to: question about the dry lake itself posted by Phil on April 26, 2008 at 18:49:47 PST:

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