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Monsoon redux
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Taq.I.To
2010-09-27 18:34:55 UTC
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Just a very cool video of a flash flood forming in the desert:


http://newmexicooutdoor.com/Flash_Flood.html
Cactus Pete
2010-09-27 20:28:53 UTC
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Post by Taq.I.To
http://newmexicooutdoor.com/Flash_Flood.html
Over in Arizona where the land is flatter they started building little
damns in flash flood areas to slow down the water so it has a chance to
spread out and soak into the ground more, but it wouldn't work where
that video was taken.
Taq.I.To
2010-09-27 20:56:41 UTC
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Post by Cactus Pete
Post by Taq.I.To
http://newmexicooutdoor.com/Flash_Flood.html
Over in Arizona where the land is flatter they started building little
damns in flash flood areas to slow down the water so it has a chance to
spread out and soak into the ground more, but it wouldn't work where
that video was taken.
Yup, those are deeply incised features, good idea though.

They have something like that on a roadcut on I-25 near Tor C.
Tra Lala
2010-09-27 22:46:13 UTC
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Post by Taq.I.To
They have something like that on a roadcut on I-25 near Tor C.
They're often called "retention dams (or dikes)" and
all of the development of the past 50 years in the
El Paso and Las Cruces foothills required numerous
of same. Developers insisted on building in those
arroyos that typically flash flood every year and
I have no idea why they were (and still are) allowed
to do that.
Taq.I.To
2010-09-28 15:58:06 UTC
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Post by Tra Lala
Post by Taq.I.To
They have something like that on a roadcut on I-25 near Tor C.
They're often called "retention dams (or dikes)" and
all of the development of the past 50 years in the
El Paso and Las Cruces foothills required numerous
of same. Developers insisted on building in those
arroyos that typically flash flood every year and
I have no idea why they were (and still are) allowed
to do that.
Simple - $$ talks.

I'm glad they have the I-25 one, but, now that memory serves, someone
has built a sizable new home at the bottom of the arroyo, west side,
right in view of the Interstate!

Trusting sorts...

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