Three people, including two children, have died in flooding in a New Mexico town.

Three people, including two children, died in a flash flood in a town in New Mexico. Monsoon rains triggered flash floods in a southern town on Tuesday. The Ruidoso River itself surged an unprecedented six meters, or 20 feet. That broke the previous record of at least 85 swift river crossings, with rescue workers carrying people trapped in their cars and homes. The mayor of Ruidoso. said the flood was going to be this massive, it hit hard, it hit fast. Some homes were lost. There are people who are missing now. We are looking for them. The weatherman said the house was being swept away by the river. It is unbelievable and then two of them killed three children. It is always heartbreaking what happens outside of Texas, it is really heartbreaking to see it happen in other states. This is another tragic flash flood here in the West. That is what we mean by flash flood. It’s a literal wall of water and you can see it with the actual Dosso River as it picks up debris from the surrounding area. So the wildfires that happened in this area in 2024 have exacerbated that. So it leaves a charred scar and then on top of that heavy rainfall in a topographic area, so the information in this graphic is a highland area with a mountainous landscape, the thing I want to draw your attention to in this North American monsoon is that these areas are very sensitive and concentrated in rainfall. The water can’t drain into the ground like it normally would because eventually gravity wins out over the topography and landslides happen and it picks up everything in its path. Here’s a river graph that shows all the different spikes in river gauges over the last few days. This is the most recent one where it broke its record by 20 feet by the National Weather Service, but a different kind of flash flood threat exists here in this area of ​​the state that extends from Baltimore to Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia. Impermeable surfaces. It’s really not the concrete jungle across the Mid-Atlantic United States that can absorb this much water. The same piano officials now say at least $119 dead and more than 160 people are still missing from the disaster. They’re doing something bad over the 4th of July weekend, said Brian Thrasher, vice president of the United Cajun Navy. I heard from local officials that Kern County police say no one has been found alive in the county since Friday. Do you think a survivor will be found here now that it’s six days after this disaster? Manufacturers are looking for an edge over the competition. Get a 50% discount and part with it. The 48 to 60 hour mark has passed. The survival rate has dropped significantly. As a point of fact, after the sixth day, it’s unlikely that anyone would survive if they weren’t drowning, you know, with the heat and the wildlife and no food and water. Yes, and we’ve heard from volunteers and first responders and they’ve told us that it doesn’t change the fact that they hope to find survivors and at least bring comfort to the families whose loved ones are currently missing. So the work itself doesn’t change and the motivation doesn’t change. I wonder how long you think this operation is going to be going on. How long do the Cajun Navy plan to be here? You know, I think we can be there as long as the EOC wants us to help. We’ve had a canine team on the ground since at least Saturday, I think, and they’ve been responsible for at least a dozen recoveries. Unfortunately, no one was alive, but again those families will be close to their loved ones at least finding remains. We just brought our superhero team the Mountain Mule Packers from North Carolina. Yeah, it’s very helpful to have that kind of ability to do that and it gives the people back home a sense of what the terrain is like here. You have rivers, mountains, thick brush. I wanted to ask you specifically if your cruise likes to go into that area because the heat is now sweltering and you’ve been expecting more rain for at least the last few days and on top of that. It’s the amount of hours your team is left with, you know, the kind of sensitive nature of the missing people that you’re describing. We were looking for what we’re going to use is just what we call special ops volunteers, mostly they’re used to seeing terrible things, used to the heat, and they’re tough enough mentally and emotionally to handle it and do the job and finish the mission.