arroyo
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"The ongoing and historic amount of rainfall is expected to cause life-threatening to locally catastrophic flash, urban and arroyo flooding including landslides, mudslides and debris flows today," the service said.
From Reuters • Aug. 21, 2023
“Flash, urban, and arroyo flooding is possible with the potential for significant impacts.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2023
On a reporting trip to the U.S. border with Mexico some years ago, I was taken by an immigration expert to an arroyo on the outskirts of Tucson.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023
“This arroyo would make one of the greatest parks in the world.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2022
Later on he walked the way she had gone, following the arroyo east and then north, where it wound into the pale yellow hills.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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