A New Mexico mountain village is preparing for another round of monsoon rains as it tries to dig out from historic flooding that killed a man and two children.

In a span of 90 minutes Tuesday, torrential rainfall triggered record flooding as village officials were in the middle of a scheduled meeting.

The town's mayor reports that severe floodwaters "washed out" the racing surface, and social media videos show loose horses in the water

A flash flood warning in Ruidoso has caused significant flood waters in areas across the village. The South Fork burn scar has seen between an inch to two and half inches of rainfall. The warning expired at 7:15 p.

In the early hours of July 4, the only sound many of the vacationers along the banks of the Guadalupe River would have heard was pounding rain and thunder. They didn’t get any official warning of the rapidly rising waters that ultimately proved deadly to dozens of people swept away in central Texas flash floods.

A public backlash is enveloping Kerr County over the local steps taken after the National Weather Service warned of a potential catastrophe.

By Jane Ross, Rich McKay and Jonathan Allen KERRVILLE, Texas (Reuters) -The death toll from the July Fourth flash flood that ravaged a swath of central Texas Hill Country rose on Tuesday to at least 109,