My wife and I were camping our way accross the country some years back and arrived in Tucumcari about dusk. We stopped at a gas station to fill the tank and as we sat there we could hear thunder off in the distance. Having camped through one downpour, we were not anxious to do it again right away and we asked the attendant about the prospect for rain. His reply was he would not be too concerned, it had not rained there for three years.