
November 3rd, 2026
Heavy rain hit the Southwest on Monday.
The rain forced hundreds of people to leave their homes.
Rescue teams were very busy.
One person died in the flood.
Police think a second death was from the weather.
The National Weather Service said up to 4 inches of rain could fall.
This was for Monday in the Four Corners region.
New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah meet there.
Ryan Maue is a former NOAA chief scientist.
He said more than 20 trillion gallons of rain fell.
This was on the Four Corners states and Nevada in two weeks.
Officials warned about very bad flooding in Pagosa Springs, Colorado.
About 2,000 people live there.
The San Juan River reached 16.81 feet late Sunday night.
It flooded downtown streets.
Then it went down on Monday, the weather service said.
The Colorado Secretary of State's office made other voting plans.
These were for people who left or were stuck.
People also had to leave their homes along the Animas River.
This was in southwestern Colorado.
Brice Current is the Durango police chief.
He said officials checked on people on Monday.
These people stayed home.
He said many were still stuck.
Officials also ordered people to leave along the San Juan River in New Mexico.
Officials warned the river was still going up.
It could peak Tuesday through Wednesday.
The village of Chama was evacuated.
Road closures cut it off.
Arizona had record rain.
Workman Creek had 7.3 inches in two days.
Flagstaff had its wettest Nov. 1 ever.
It had 5.15 inches in two days.
Jennifer Tate is a meteorologist at the NWS Weather Prediction Center.
She said one thing stood out.
The system was not small.
It was very big.
In Flagstaff, police said they found a body on Monday.
The man was Williams Singavarapu, 73, of New York.
He fell into fast floodwaters about 12 hours before.
Police found a second man dead on Monday.
He was in a drainage area.
Police said the death looked weather-related.
In Sedona, officials ordered people to leave on Sunday.
They lived near Oak Creek.
Heavy rain washed out part of a main highway.
It is between Flagstaff and Sedona.
Rescue teams also helped people in Tucson.
Ryan Benally built dirt walls to protect his parents' home.
The home is on the Navajo Nation near Montezuma Creek, Utah.
He said the storms came one after another.
He said they are adding up in ways people did not expect.
November 3rd, 2026

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