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A post-fire ‘nightmare’ in New Mexico: Eight floods in four weeks
RUIDOSO, N.M. — The dream home that Brook Smith bought last year, located at the bend of a peaceful road, is now protected on one side by a military-grade flood barrier filled with dirt. The babbling creek alongside that home is an artery that’s repeatedly …