On Tuesday, the National Weather Service announced a father and two children in Lincoln, New Mexico in flood waters after announcing the flash flooding emergency in the region.
Many rescue missions were going on at the Gilan trailer park of Ruidoso, and another person was also trapped in high water, NWS said In his local storm report on ET at 5:50 pm.
“The houses begin to be transferred with water,” said by NWS.
A Posted video Ruidoso resident Kaitlyn Carpender has shown fast running water in a house under a river on social media.
Picture from American Geological Survey Posted NWS also shows a river in the X account of Albuquerque, Rio Ruidoso, growing 15 feet rapidly in about an hour. “Stay away from the river! Now look for high land!” Weather service wrote.
Rio Ruidoso in Hollywood probably reached 20.24 feet during the height of the flash flood, NWS Albuquerque said on X. If the provisional number is confirmed, it will be a record high.
According to USGS Real time dataThe water levels on the 30-mile long river, located about 150 miles in the south-east of Albuquruck, were its historic daily average “very up” on Tuesday evening.
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