Monday, June 30, 2008-  Heavy rains drench the borderland Monday afternoon creating all kinds of problems for El Paso drivers.  Around 1:00 PM, Monday afternoon the rain started to fall.  East and Central El Paso saw the heaviest downpours.  A number of water rescues were called out to the fire department but no injuries were reported as a result of those cars stranded in flooded areas.

Mother Nature's timing was almost suspect, as El Paso County was only hours away from setting an all-time record.  That record would have made 2008 the driest first 6 months of the year since records began to be kept 129 years ago.  We needed an additional twenty-one hundredths of an inch of rain to fall and by 4:30 PM, El Paso had officially recorded thrity-four hundredths of an inch.