EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Floodwaters swept through a West El Paso neighborhood Saturday evening, leaving streets covered in debris and forcing residents to begin extensive cleanup efforts.<\/p>\n
The flooding left mud and rocks scattered across local properties, with floodwaters reaching waist height as residents attempted to clear a drain in the neighborhood. <\/p>\n
In response to the aftermath, neighbors came together to assist one another with clearing debris, sharing food and providing temporary shelter.<\/p>\n
Luis Chaparro, a resident living in the impacted neighborhood, described the severe disruption to what would normally be a restful weekend. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt should be a normal daily routine, a daily Sunday. But this just heartbreaking to see your street just covered like this, that you can’t even go out or can’t even enter. And instead of enjoying a good Sunday, you’re out here.\u201d Chaparro said.<\/p>\n
Jaylene Placencia, a resident, was working a nursing shift in nearby Las Cruces when she received word that her family had to be evacuated from their property. Placencia expressed her emotions to ABC-7 upon witnessing the flooding conditions, uncertain if she would have a home to return to. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe built our house. We’ve lived here for three years. We saw it go from the ground up,\u201d Placencia said.<\/p>\n
While Placencia noted that her home appears to have sustained less damage than some neighboring houses, the entire block faces extensive recovery work. <\/p>\n
To aid in the neighborhood recovery efforts, Placencia asked the surrounding community for donations of essential household items. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf anybody can come donate any cleaning supplies, mops, rags, Pine-Sol, anything you can bring Clorox. It’ll be a great help,\u201d Placencia said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Floodwaters swept through a West El Paso neighborhood Saturday evening, leaving streets covered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[137339,52249,138,140,139,3576,137341,172],"class_list":["post-478153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-abc-7","tag-clean-up","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-flooding","tag-kvia","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}