A southern New Mexico village that was ravaged by wildfires in June and then battered off-and-on by flooding across burn scars is cleaning up again from another round of flash flooding. A flash flood watch remained in effect for parts of central and south-central New Mexico on Monday into Tuesday.
RUIDOSO, N.M. — A southern New Mexico village that was ravaged by wildfires in June and then battered off-and-on by flooding across burn scars was cleaning up Monday from another round of flash flooding in which a dozen people had to be rescued and many more were displaced from their homes.
With a flash flood watch in effect for parts of central and south-central New Mexico on Monday into Tuesday, the troops helped to distribute sandbags and with road repair, said Danielle Silva, director of communications for the New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. “We hate it because we know it’s going to have an economic impact on this area,” Ruidoso Downs General Manager Rick Baugh said Monday. “But we’ve got to do it.”
Overpeck said most of the recent flash flooding has been triggered by at least an inch of rain in a short period of time, but only about one-half inch caused the latest round in Ruidoso on Sunday. The wildfires that broke out in late June in the Sacramento Mountains west of Ruidoso, about 115 miles northeast of Las Cruces, killed two people and burned more than 12 square miles in the community.
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