Yes. It is true we likely are witnessing Atmospheric Rivers from the Pacific Ocean moving across Mexico and up into Texas and Oklahoma and points east and south and north of there, but we are also witnessing climate change in action here on earth.
When you have droughts for years at a time and dry washes that would be flood stage at 13 feet top out at over 40 feet and wash away hundreds of houses and many people in cars and whatever, you have to begin to realize this isn't normal by any stretch of the imagination. We have reached a new normal and such things can likely now happen once every 5 to 10 years almost anywhere west of the Mississippi River at this point. Not realizing this is putting both yourself and your family in potential danger.
Flash flooding can kill wherever you have a lot of open sloping ground and not much vegetation to stop it. I myself have had to drive my car as fast as I could away from a wall of water to avoid dying in flash floods during my own life here in California. The worst places are where mountains and deserts meet and you see clouds in the mountains nearby. Then walls of water 4 feet or higher coming at you are pretty normal in these circumstances from the Rockies to the Sierras to Big Bear and the nearby deserts in California.
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