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Death Valley
Det finns två berömda dalar i Kalifornien. Den första är Silicon Valley, den andra är Death Valley i södra Kalifornien.
Just nu blommar Kaliforniens världsberömda ängsblommor i Death Valley och med dom så kommer också ett problem som tyvärr är alltför vanligt i USAs nationalparker, turister :
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK — In the midst of the most spectacular wildflower bloom people here can remember — and a crush of tourists to match — conditions in this usually desolate place have come to this: Some park rangers are fleeing to Las Vegas for peace and quiet.
Record rains have remade Death Valley this spring into a showplace of desert golds, brown-eyed evening primroses, gravel ghosts and desert stars.
It is also a place where fistfights have broken out among customers waiting in long lines at gas pumps. Heavy traffic along a 50-mile stretch of two-lane road at the southern end of the park has left gaping potholes and crumbling pavement.
There is not a hotel room available within 100 miles. Toilet paper recently was in short supply for outlying trailhead facilities. Sales of books, gasoline and groceries are at all-time highs. Park supplies, roads, law enforcement and sewer systems are overloaded.
“We’re being hammered; we can’t catch our breath,” said Terry Baldino, the park’s assistant chief of interpretation. “I’m encouraging our staff to get away from it all on weekends,” he said, adding that some “are going to Las Vegas, others are hiding at home.”
Normally, Baldino said, there might be 4,000 visitors roaming the park’s stark geological wonders this time of year. “Last Saturday,” he said, “we had 14,000 people come through the front door of the park’s central headquarters.” Even that figure accounts for only a fraction of the influx because not all park visitors go to the headquarters.
“There’s so many people here right now, I dread going to get the mail,” said Death Valley resident Ruth Shandor. “Makes you think we need street lights.”
In the middle of the 3.3-million-acre park, Melanie Garcia, reservation manager at the Furnace Creek Ranch, and her staff have handled 700 calls a day, mostly from people desperately seeking a hotel room “for today, or tomorrow,” she said.
Men man kan också se de spektakulära kaliforniska ängsblommorna här uppe i Silicon Valley, och de är verkligen värda ett besök.
