Kinda sad when .36 inches causes a small disaster.
Here in north Georgia, .36” is a modest SINGLE summer thunderstorm.
Yes and in Missouri we call that 0.36” a sprinkle.
The desert deals with rain a bit differently than Georgia. For one thing the soil here isn’t terribly absorbent so most of that .36 turns into run off, which collects in arroyos, which feed into normally dry rivers, and can quickly turn into multiple feet of fast running water. It can be made much worse if the rain is heading up stream as it keeps adding water to the system. Then all that water starts picking up plants and the erosion is fast and dramatic. I’ve seen just a couple of inches or rain make our “rivers” run 10 feet and had a tree stump that must have weighed a ton just “appear” when the water receded.