Flooding, mud-flows, land/rock slides, 8"+ rain hits El Paso, TX in short time period - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

JNSBSB · 08-07-2006, 01:01 AM

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/..._us/texas_rain
http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=5239190

Max Whittaker · 08-07-2006, 08:56 PM

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...

08-07-2006, 01:01 AM	#1
JNSBSB Member Forum Regular Join Date: Dec 11, 2004 Location: In a room turned into a theater room inside a cave in sunny Texas. Posts: 593	Flooding, mud-flows, land/rock slides, 8"+ rain hits El Paso, TX in short time period 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/..._us/texas_rain http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=5239190

08-07-2006, 08:56 PM	#2
Max Whittaker I want Serenity back Forum Veteran Join Date: Apr 30, 2001 Posts: 6,180	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...