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Monsoon rains brought extreme flash flooding to the Southwest this week, creating scenes of vehicles bobbing down neighborhood roads like rafts on class three rapids. More flash flooding may occur this weekend.
Experts say the historic Western drought is to blame.
The drought has ravaged the region for decades, leaving the soil less like a sponge and more like pavement. The moisture isn t absorbed into the soil as much and all of that water is running off and that is what leads to the roadways and flooding of people s properties, National Weather Service Flagstaff meteorologist Tim Steffen said.
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