What we are seeing now in Colorado and New Mexico now is a combination of relatively long term drought with many fires then extreme amounts of rainfall in Colorado and New Mexico. This combined with extreme altitude changes in both Colorado and New Mexico creates disasters as roads and whole towns wash away in the extreme rainfall while traveling downslope of rainfalls at times of 4 to 6 inches an hour.
So, once empty or almost empty lakes and dams are quickly overtopped. However, if they aren't first filled with mud and rocks and the edges of lakes and dams aren't broken this water will be a godsend to these areas in the long run even if it takes 6 months or more to repair all the roads so people can get to their homes once again.
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