My sister and husband go to yuma every winter. My mon joined them this spring before they came back to canada. They went across in thru the baja into mexico. She said it was really strange because there were towns that had emptied out completely. Hotels just sitting there pools full of sand booze still in the bars. The locals the poor ones were still there. There were rumors that some scientists were down there quite a few of them and had some kind of meeting and conference and then all left. After that eveyone started to move out and shut down? Just a story but the place was empty?