New Mexico Town Hit with Flash Flooding, Homes Swept Down River

A town in New Mexico was hit with devastating flash flooding on Tuesday, leading to homes and businesses being flooded and swept down river after heavy rainfall led to the Rio Ruidoso rising about 20 feet within an hour.

A video posted to Facebook by La Salsa Kitchen, a Mexican restaurant in Ruidoso, showed heavy flood waters sweeping through the town. The restaurant explained in their Facebook post that they would be “starting a GoFundMe” page to not only help their restaurant and employees, but to help others who were affected by the flood to “get back on their feet.”

One video shared on social media showed a house being swept down river through the flood waters.

In a post on X, the National Weather

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