{"id":86644,"date":"2026-09-17T08:43:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86644"},"modified":"2026-09-17T09:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:01:34","slug":"once-iin-a-thousand-year-storm-feared-as-life-threatening-floods-to-wash-out-millions-in-four-us-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/once-iin-a-thousand-year-storm-feared-as-life-threatening-floods-to-wash-out-millions-in-four-us-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Once In A Thousand Year Storm Feared As Life-Threatening Floods To Wash Out Millions In Four US States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Daily Mail (tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/09\/17\/03\/111296939-16137195-image-a-58_1789611158149.jpg\" alt=\"Crews in Tuscon also responded to a report of a submerged vehicle being swept toward Speedway Boulevard with someone still inside\" width=\"340\" height=\"439\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"articleIconLinksContainer\">\n<p class=\"count-text\">Nearly 10 million Americans have been warned to brace for potentially life-threatening flooding as dramatic scenes in <span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-050ecb30-b241-11f1-b660-d75d802c8482\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/arizona\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Arizona<\/a><\/span> showed motorists being plucked from raging waters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-mol-fe-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Tucson firefighters raced to three swift-water emergencies in less than half an hour on Wednesday evening as muddy floodwaters surged through streets and washes.\u00a0 The dramatic rescues offered an early glimpse of the danger facing the Southwest as a potentially historic deluge threatens Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and parts of Colorado.\u00a0The National Weather Service has issued widespread flood watches across the region, while forecasters warn that exceptionally intense downpours could unleash dangerous flash flooding within minutes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Daily Mail (tabloid): Nearly 10 million Americans have been warned to brace for potentially life-threatening flooding as dramatic scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86644"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86652,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86644\/revisions\/86652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}