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Flash Flood Forces Evacuations Near Horizon City, Texas

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A stepped staff gauge of the kind that measures a river's rise along a sloping bank (illustrative)"Stream gauge in Włodawa, July 2018 P03" by Kawon Kez Sel, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0

A suspected dam breach caused flash flooding that prompted evacuations from nine homes about 5 miles east of Horizon City, in El Paso County, Texas, at 5 p.m. MDT on Oct. 26, 2026, the National Weather Service's El Paso/Santa Teresa office said in a Local Storm Report.

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