Flash flooding and mandatory evacuations spread across a swath of the American Southwest on Sunday, The Guardian reported, as heavy rainfall hit a region that is normally arid. The report said evacuations were mandated in Arizona and New Mexico.
The Guardian also reported that a Colorado tourist town was among the areas affected. There, the town was bracing for its main river to rise to historic levels. The Guardian said Pagosa Springs warned of a potentially "catastrophic" deluge.
According to The Guardian, weary residents in the normally arid region were dealing with another drenching.
The available summary of the report is incomplete. It ends in the middle of a sentence about officials, and it does not identify the officials who ordered the evacuations or provide rainfall totals, river forecasts, or the number of people affected. The account rests on a single report, and no other source was available for this story.
Sources: The Guardian: Colorado town braces for historic flood as heavy rains batter south-west.