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Luckily, her neighbors were able to pull their horses to safety, using a tractor to move debris. This is the second flood Field has seen in her 15 years living in Hurricane. The last was only two months ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s pretty crazy to happen again, and I think this time it\u2019s worse,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
In southern Colorado, rising waters prompted mandatory evacuations along four rivers, including the San Juan River through Pagosa Springs. The resort town famous for its riverside hot springs suffered flooding from a similar weather pattern a year ago.<\/p>\n
Local officials including Town Manager David Harris had their eyes on floodwaters expected to crest a foot (30 centimeters) higher than during last year’s flood, from which he said they \u201clearned a lot.\u201d <\/p>\n
Others may not have. Daredevils were seen taking advantage of the floodwaters to go whitewater rafting, raising worries they would need rescue by emergency crews already stretched thin, Harris said.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of debris,\u201d Harris said. \u201cThe last thing we want to do is have to perform an extraction.\u201d<\/p>\n The flooding was not unexpected, just the latest from two months of heavy rain that ended a summer of drought. While parts of the Southwest are rocky with little vegetation and naturally prone to flash flooding, the recent rains have made flooding everywhere more likely, said Kate Abbott, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Grand Junction, Colorado.<\/p>\n \u201cAt this point we\u2019re saturated and can\u2019t take too much more without flooding,\u201d Abbott said. \u201cThis is the third or fourth round of this kind of moisture we\u2019ve seen in as many weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n Rivers were expected to crest Friday morning after rain tapers off overnight.<\/p>\n The Arizona tornadoes Wednesday night injured at least one person.<\/p>\n This fall has been unusually soggy in the Southwest, an area better known for scalding heat, with El Ni\u00f1o conditions that have sent one tropical system after another in from the Pacific, causing the Grand Canyon<\/a> and surrounding deserts<\/a> to rage with floods.<\/p>\n National Weather Service meteorologists suspect at least three tornadoes touched down as storms swept across central Arizona late Wednesday.<\/p>\n The nasty weather hit during Lenna Landy’s yoga routine in Overgaard, Arizona, a community of about 3,000 people located 140 miles (225 kilometers) northeast of Phoenix. Landy had ignored alerts about a possible tornado, but then the storm struck.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was like Zeus-was-angry kind of level, of thunder cracks,\u201d Landy said.<\/p>\n The power went off, her house shook and Landy couldn’t find her glasses.<\/p>\n \u201cIf this is my end, I won\u2019t see it coming,\u201d she recalled thinking. \u201cThe scariest part was just like, how quickly it came on,\u201d Landy said.<\/p>\n The storm hit as members of the Overgaard Baptist Church were wrapping up a prayer meeting. <\/p>\n Pastor Eric Woods had just led prayers for people to stay safe in the weather when chandeliers started swinging and the power went out. He told everyone to run into the women\u2019s bathroom, which had concrete walls and no windows.<\/p>\n \u201cIt just came on like a freight train,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought the roof was coming off.\u201d<\/p>\n They continued to pray in the bathroom, Woods said. They emerged later to see damage to the church roof and many trees including an old-growth ponderosa pine tree that toppled.<\/p>\n Warm, moist air moving north fuels storms coming in from the California coast. Changing winds can make them spin, creating the conditions for tornadoes, said Ryan Bernhart, a weather service meteorologist in Flagstaff.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is very unusual for this area at this time of the year,\u201d Bernhart said.<\/p>\n![\"|\"](\"https:\/\/infonews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/97088f1b353851520abf1600fef4e446a28621802b4338f56aad3fd3748d986f.jpg\" "\\"|\\"")
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