Posted on 07/28/2014 5:45:50 PM PDT by mandaladon
An unusual amount of rain that ravaged parts of southern Arizona also knocked down 60 feet of the rebar-reinforced steel fence that divides the U.S. and Mexico.
The storms began Friday in Sonora, Mexico, and resumed Saturday night until Sunday morning, when debris from the Mexican side of the border traveled through a wash and piled up against the border fence. The fence, just west of the Nogales-Mariposa Port of Entry near Interstate 19, stood between 18 and 26 feet high and extended at least 7 feet underground.
Border agents were alerted not long after the wall fell.
"Resources have been deployed to the area until the fence is repaired. Our technology assets such as cameras are also able to assist us," U.S. Border Patrol spokeswoman Nicole Ballistrea said. "Contractors have assessed the damaged section of the fence and are developing a plan to initiate repairs."
The fence was built in 2011. It is constantly monitored by agents because smugglers and others who attempt to cross illegally routinely try to breach or knock down parts of it.
"It had a lot of water behind it, and it just pushed the fence straight down," said John Hays, floodplain coordinator for the Santa Cruz County Flood Control District. "If you're fencing is tight enough to catch debris, it basically becomes a dam. It's not meant to withstand those loads of water."
Hays said the fence appears to have floodgates, but they did not open.
The debris and water that made its way through the fence also crept into a Nogales, Arizona, neighborhood, flooding houses and business with up to 3 feet of water, Hays said.
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He’ll say the “most merciful Allah” tore the fence down.
“Mr. Allah — tear down this wall!” — Barack Obama wanting to be Ronald Reagan
On the border they are called arroyos.
This is the problem on the Rio Grande.
You cant build it on our side, it cuts property owners cattle off from the water.
Mexico wont let us build on their side.
Build it down the middle of the river and she washes away.
OBAMA SAYS COME! HE WILL PROVIDE!!
Any possibility that the area was one under which someone had dug tunnels??
Rubber bullets?
Why, yer just an illegal-alien lovin’, anti-fence promotin’, ... /s
Been there a 100 times.
Lots of tunnels in Nogalas
Yeah that’s the drill. LOL
BTW Nogales is a great place for lunch at a 5 star restaurant, Cabarets at night and late evening tacos on a roadside.
Good place to get rolled too if you don’t mind yer back.
I used to run the border there.
Beautiful place until the Feds tied our hands.
Actually it is Nogales on both sides and Sonora on both sides.
I lived all over the border,La Frontera.
Know her ins and her outs.
I knew it was Sonora on the Mexican side but didn’t know that for the US side.
The Sonoran desert, she is big and vast.
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