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
Letteriello got permission from state wildlife officials to bring in two dozen native arroyo chub minnows for the pond from San Juan Creek, along the Ortega Highway.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2023
Boris, 29, ran across the muddy arroyo of the Rio Grande on Dec. 3 from Ciudad Juárez to El Paso.
From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2021
Some of them were in the wide arroyo that the creek cut through Gallup, but the others were in the salt-cedar and willow thickets that grew along the stream banks.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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