Strong rains caused lightning floods in New Mexico on Tuesday, resulting in three deaths, including two young children, while dozens of houses and vehicles were imprisoned in the Ruidoso departmental village, reported agencies and quoted a state emergency official and village.
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1. On Tuesday in Ruidos in New Mexico, an emergency emergency emergency situation was announced, which caused the whole house to be swept downstream.
2. On Tuesday evening the water retreated and began searching and rescue operations, while the crews of public work cleaned the remnants of the roads.
3. Two children, four and seven years old, along with a man, were swept downstream and later found dead later in the village of Mountain Resort.
4. According to the post -shared BBC Instagram post, the visual elements appeared online showing the whole house uprooted from its foundation, which passed downstream through mud waters in the middle of lightning floods in Ruidos and fought along the way.
. “We don’t know if anyone was in the house.”
6. Emergency teams, coordinated by local law enforcement and National Guard, performed at least 85 rescue operations of fast water in Ruidos and surrounding areas. Silva said that many of them were involved in people were trapped in cars and houses due to growing flood waters.
7. Silva further reported that the river had grown rapidly at the interim peak of 20.24 feet (6.2 meters) during the flood. When the waters began to retreat in the evening, the authorities began to look for remnants for the survivors.
8. The recent floods hit only four days after the deadly flood caused by heavy rains along the Guadalupe River, resulting in at least 109 deaths, while several people disappeared in the middle of the destroyed parts of Texas Hill Country.
9. In New Mexico, Silva explained that the intensity of the debris was increased due to the landscape of scarred flames and without vegetation after a fire followed by floods that caused erosion soil.
10. Ruidoso, a popular summer holiday location and ski resort, located in the Sierra Blanca Mountains in South-Central New Mexico, is approximately 115 miles (185 km) south of Albuquerque, the largest city in the state.
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