In just a short period of time since the ends of July 2006 and beginning of August, 2006(1 week period), El Paso, TX, a city known for being all true desert and completely arid, got completely swamped by anywhere from 7" to over 11" in places in just so short a period of time in what's the worst storm to hit this west Texas border city in a hundred years. This heavy rain led to widespread flooding, mudflows, avalanches(rock slides, mudslides, falling rocks, etc.) and flowing debree. I think the city has already been declared a major disaster area. People I know there tells me it looks like New Orleans after Katrina and Bogota, Colombia after the 1985 volcano eruption rolled in one. A major disaster in an otherwise bone-dry desert city.

Here's 2 links to the news of the El Paso disaster.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060805/ap_on_re_us/texas_rain
http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=5239190

It does my heart good to see my birth-place in the news.
Sure wish they'd shared some of that rain with me... stingy ol' town...:mumble: