Posted on 07/28/2008 7:01:51 AM PDT by CedarDave
TV pictures show Air National Guard rescues of campers, FD rescue from flooded homes, and houses washed down stream and breaking up.
I’m not in Ruidoso and I’m not in a place that will flood but I would love for it to stop raining! We went 9 months with no measurable rain and have had almost 10 inches starting on the 4th of July.
My son was in Ruidoso this weekend and the main road was a river.
I was looking at the pictures. Why was a pic of Obama placed between them? He doing rescues too?
As of last night, they were still in the process of evacuating many campers who were stranded in the mountains. The roads to these campers are no longer there.
KRQE reports the jockey’s tack room was flooded, maybe destroyed, including saddles and other gear. Horses were rescued and are o.k.
Just a note, Ruidoso (ree-uh-do-so) means noisy. The Rio Ruidoso is aptly named. Normally it is calm, but it is named for the way it comes alive during spring runoff. This is from the City of Ruidoso’s visitor’s site.
He’s “The One,” don’t ya know?
Love the comment about people encroaching on nature in the article. Morons. Nature is everywhere. One cannot encroach upon something that completely surrounds us.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It's been so many years since we've been there, I've forgotten.
Yes, it’s near there. Never been to Ruidoso or the Inn, though. We’ve been in NM for just over 3 years and have mostly stayed in the NW NCentral part of the state. We are getting out more now and are wanting to get down to Lincoln and Carlsbad and the site of Al the Gore’s inarticulate conception (Roswell).
Just to let you know what happened from my end.
The original story was excerpted to under 300 words according to FR rules and properly linked. Apparently the ABQ Journal yanked the story and replaced with a series of updates at the same link.
For the information of all, the original story is back up together with pictures and a link to updates. The ABQ Journal is subscription but you can get to the story for free and without registering; just follow the instructions.
300 words is not a magic number. For example if an article requiring excerpting was 275 words long, and if 300 words was the limit, it would follow that one could post the entire 275 word article. That of course would be copyright bypass and not permitted here.
A good rule of thumb is to remove at least half of the article if it contains less than 600 words and if excerpting is required. If the article is 600 words or more, removing all but 300 words is a good start at an excerpt.
Heck, it wasn’t until 6:30 PM yesterday evening that I even knew that there was any flooding..... Even though the rescue helicopter is staging right across the street from my house.
That’s what I get for only getting my news off the internet.... and XM radio when I go out in one of the vehicles.
Every year they have the EMS convention here, and have helicopters and emergency vehicles doing the same thing for practice as they are doing now, so I just figured that’s what was going on now.
Then I drove over to the store and noticed that Cedar Creek had piled up tree trunks and branches and rail road ties (landscaping... We don’t have a railroad here ;-) all over the road. That was my first real clue that anything unusual was going on. As I was leaving the store, the news on XM’s “America Right” channel mentioned the flooding, so that was kind of a surprise.
I think we had more rain, and it fell faster in the flood we had in ‘63... although a lot more people are effected and more property damage and bridges washed out this time.
More silly people building right on the river and creeks is why. Of course they have already filled up everything else that isn’t a 60 degree or steeper slope, and everyone in Texas and half the rich people in Mexico think they have to own a Ruidoso vacation home, so they build anywhere there is two hundred square feet of land available.
I haven’t had a chance to go out and look around town... I may not even try, just to stay out of everyones way.
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