Flooding in Clovis? (Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Carlsbad: 2014, houses, dangerous)

[DigitalHumanities2020]

I have done some searches, but can't make sense of them. Is Clovis threatened by flooding?

[Poncho_NM]

Flooding in Clovis, New Mexico is not common, but it has occurred in the past in some parts.

2014 news article with video, "Hard rains flood Clovis": https://www.koat.com/article/hard-ra...clovis/4457789

Flooding threatens Clovis homes July 2, 2014: https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com...mes/76927.html
New Mexico braces for severe storm
By Rebecca Moss | rmoss@sfnewmexican.com Mar 12, 2019

Lime-sized balls of hail were expected to fall from the sky. Winds powerful enough to overturn a vehicle — even a semitrailer — would sweep across Eastern New Mexico’s interstate highways, forecasters said. And as much of 3 feet of new snow was anticipated in the northern mountains.

Dangerous weather conditions were expected throughout New Mexico beginning Tuesday afternoon and continuing through Thursday night from what forecasters had dubbed a superstorm.

Santa Fe streets were already beginning to flood Tuesday evening.

It’s “probably going to be one for the record books when we talk about severe weather,” meteorologist Kerry Jones of the National Weather Service in Albuquerque said during a Tuesday briefing.

Santa Fe was cast in shades of gray with intermittent rainfall throughout the afternoon Tuesday as thunder cracked.

Yet, forecasters predicted far more dire conditions in the east-central part of the state. Thunderstorms with dangerously high winds — in some places up to 75 mph — were expected to rage into the night. Propelled by forceful gusts, hail ranging between the size of a lime to slightly smaller than a tennis ball could cause serious wreckage in some areas, meteorologists said.

Jones said the powerful winds were expected to unfold throughout Wednesday, ranging from between 35 and 50 mph between Taos and Albuquerque and reaching roughly 80 mph in parts of Eastern and southeastern New Mexico near the cities of Carlsbad, Tucumcari, Clovis and south of Las Vegas.

“These are likely some of the strongest winds we have seen in quite some time,” Jones said. “This is going to be a very intense wind event and something we need to take seriously.”

Entire article at: https://www.santafenewmexican.com/ne...d207a48c3.html

[eddie gein]

I have been caught in hard rains in Clovis. The streets were flooded and it appeared that Clovis did not have a lot in the way of drainage at street level.

[DigitalHumanities2020]

Originally Posted by eddie gein

I have been caught in hard rains in Clovis. The streets were flooded and it appeared that Clovis did not have a lot in the way of drainage at street level.

Yikes. Seems like there's that everywhere. It's scary for elderly, disabled people.

[eddie gein]

Originally Posted by DigitalHumanities2020

Yikes. Seems like there's that everywhere. It's scary for elderly, disabled people.

I don't think it floods houses or anything. There is just a whole lot of water on the streets.

[Cactus Hibs]

There aren't really any major rivers or streams that flow through Clovis, are there? It seems like in order to get any really serious flooding you need a river or a lake that can overflow its banks.