arroyo

"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

He breathed deeply, trying to inhale the immensity of it, trying to take it all inside himself, the way the arroyo sand swallowed time.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

Near El Paso, Texas, he will establish the Castner Range National Monument on a former artillery range along rugged canyons and arroyos that rise out of the desert near the Franklin Mountains.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

“Move away from recently burned areas. Life-threatening flooding of creeks, roads and normally dry arroyos is likely.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 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