Trump's Border Wall Could Cause Deadly Flooding in Texas. Federal Officials Are Planning to Build It

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Trump’s Border Wall Could Cause Deadly Flooding in Texas. Federal Officials Are Planning to Build It Anyway


On July 12, 2008, in the border town of Nogales, Arizona, the afternoon turned from sun-drenched to ominously dark in a matter of minutes. A summer monsoon is typically a welcome respite in the desert heat, but the approaching storm quickly became violent. Rising waters began creeping into downtown businesses. The public library was inundated. At the international port of entry, the road leading into Mexico began to buckle, and a commercial bus waiting to cross started sinking. Passengers frantically scrambled out, and the driver managed to back up onto firmer ground, escaping the newly formed ten-foot-wide sinkhole.

Just across the border, in neighboring Nogales, Sonora, people watched in horror as city streets morphed into raging rivers strong enough to sweep away cars. A churning mass of caramel-colored water and debris began to fill the shops in the busy commercial district near the river. Mexican soldiers and firefighters rushed in to pull people from the floodwaters with ropes. One eyewitness later said it looked like a “bomb fell.”

The next morning, as residents of both towns awoke to the scenes of devastation, many were struck by the stark differences in damage between the two sides of the border. In Arizona, although mud and debris filled the streets, most of the water had dissipated, while in Mexico, entire streets remained submerged. A second, much larger sinkhole had formed near the border fence on the Mexican side. Mexico declared Nogales a disaster zone, and roads remained closed for weeks as workers hauled away mangled cars and rubble. It would take months to repair the damage, which was estimated at roughly $8 million.

The sister cities of Nogales, which were built along a floodplain, had been battered by heavy rains before. Longtime residents still remember other major floods, like one in 1983 that raged across southern Arizona and killed around a dozen people. The 2008 storm, on the other hand, was a typical monsoon, about two inches of rainfall in two hours, and locals wondered why it had been so catastrophic. They also wondered why it had been so much more devastating on the Mexican side.

Read more: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/trumps-border-wall-cause-deadly-flooding-texas-federal-officials-planning-build-anyway/

[The Wizard]

1. There will be no wall

Democrats will not fund it.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Mexico should sue the builders of the walls and the US first damages.