When I moved to Alamogordo last September, I took these photos of dry canals near my residence.
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| Canal, Alamogordo, New Mexico |
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| Canal, Alamogordo, New Mexico |
I looked forward to the day when I would see this:
That day was today.
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| Canal, Alamogordo, New Mexico |
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| Flooded street, Alamogordo, New Mexico |
It was fun to watch this rushing water today.
An hour later, the street above was wet, but not flooded, and the water in the canal had already lowered in depth and in intensity.
In 2006, though, this same neighborhood suffered greatly from a flash flood, leaving some houses with four feet of water. Since 2006, a spillway was built to capture water cascading from the mountain slope, and the water you see above was the overflow from that tank.
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