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Locals here talk about the great Alamogordo flood of 2006. That one was a game-changer and the flood zone in Alamo covers a healthy chunk of the city's square miles. That one washed people's yards and stuff and houses silly. Hopefully now it appears the city has places routed ahead of time now for large amounts of water coming down the Sacramento Mountains to flow through the city without taking so much of the contents with it.
But since that flood has Gordo actually built any effective flood water control (and ideally also water recapture) infrastructure? Places like fast growing Rio Rancho have been around since the early 1960s and many streets and/or living rooms still get flooded. I guess the tax base just isn't large enough to do much of this. And unless labor costs in NM are very low I can't see that $10 million bond issue that passed last year getting many culverts, arroyos and reservoirs built with that kind of money.
We have had some issues with fire smoke this summer, small ones in the Lincoln National Forest and serious and unhealthful incursions from the West Coast fires.
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