NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Video shows a flash flood wiping out a road in Southern New Mexico. Steven Aldridge works for the Lincoln County Road Department and says this is the gap road off Highway 380 near Capitan on Tuesday.
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He saw the water beginning to rush down the arroyo and captured the video. It shows the water and dirt quickly making the road impassable.