arroyo

“Flash, urban, and arroyo flooding is possible with the potential for significant impacts.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

“This year, the flowers that are blooming include canterbury and school bells, arroyo lupine, and California poppy,” the parks department said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 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

"The water was so strong it pushed him into the arroyo," said Zamora, using the term for an usually dry riverbed that runs during heavy rain.

From Reuters ● Aug. 8, 2022

He stood up slowly and looked restlessly toward the arroyo banks, thinking about food.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

Others use game cameras to track groups threading their way up ravines and arroyos.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2023

The encircling mountains are a kind of flood-making machine, chuting rain down arroyos and canyons for killer floods, most memorably in 1914, 1934 and 1938.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2022

To steer clear of the surveillance towers, people have pushed deeper into the mountains and now hunker down in arroyos and other crevices in the desert for longer periods of time.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2022

Washes and arroyos – drainage channels that are dry except during heavy rainstorms – can turn into raging currents within minutes, strong enough to carry away cars and people.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2021

The earth was eroded to gray clay, and deep arroyos cut through the length of the valley between the mesas.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko