Entire neighborhoods were inundated and the drainage network swamped after over 12 inches of rain fell during two or three days last week, or nearly as much as the sprawling low-lying city usually gets in all of September.
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Reuters,
NBC news,
28 Sep. 2026
That’s a good chunk of the 8-12 inches the arid area of canyons and rocky expanses with little vegetation usually gets in a year.
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