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The southwest has been battling severe storms and heavy rain for months. Two famous sandstone sites in New Mexico collapsed. Flooding has also caused damage in many states, with losses estimated at millions of dollars.
The southwest has been hit by severe storms in recent weeks. Heavy rain followed heavy rain in autumn. Rivers are in spate in many states. Dry river beds have been flooded, homes destroyed and terrain severely degraded.Mexico State” rel=”154661″>new mexico Two of the desert’s most famous sandstone sites collapsed.
The Alien Throne and neighboring King of Wings collapsed within weeks of each other, destroyed by the same forces of nature that had built them.
New Mexico, Colorado hit by severe stormutah And rivers are rising in parts of Arizona. Among them, the high desert in northwestern New Mexico was seriously damaged by its unique terrain caused by long periods of wind and rain.
Thick rocks formed by the power of nature in the desert have long stood firmly on a base of thin soil, and some sandstone pillars have a lace-like texture.
Tour guide Kialo Winters often takes tourists to an area of desert wonders at the edge of the Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness; However, they recently discovered that the area’s most famous fantastical sandstone landscape, the alien throne, had collapsed.
Several waves of severe storms have struck the southwest in recent weeks, causing extensive damage. The flooding is receding, but officials estimate damages could reach millions of dollars.
Winters remains worried about his relatives who live on the Navajo Nation, where massive storms have left many dirt roads washed out and impassable.
Experts estimate that from late October to early November, accompanied by an influx of tropical water vapor, more than 20 trillion gallons of rain fell over the “Four Corners” region at the junction of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah and Nevada.
News of Wing King’s collapse began circulating on social media in early October. As for where the “alien throne” fell, it remains to be clear. Winters was unable to visit there for several weeks after the storm. When he turned around on 30 October, he saw that the spectacular rocks were in ruins, and he did not notice relevant posts about the area.
Social media was filled with posts, some people grateful to have seen it and documented it with photos, others regretting not getting a chance to glimpse it, others expressing condolences, and still others discussing the physics and fragility of natural wonders.
To Winters and other Native Americans in the area, these rocks are more than just rock formations. They have served as a guide to ancestral trade routes and a link between generations for thousands of years.
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What attracted the most attention was the collapse of two famous sandstone landscapes, the “Alien Throne” and the “Wing King” in the New Mexico desert. They were once a famous local attraction, but have now been destroyed by strong storms and erosion.
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Reports say the south-west has been hit by severe storms in recent weeks, followed by heavy autumn rains, which have caused flooding, severe soil erosion and sandstone pillars that are slowly collapsing after losing support.
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For Winters and other Native Americans, these rocks are not only natural wonders, but also signposts that have guided their ancestors’ trade routes for thousands of years, and important symbols that link generations of memory and cultural identity.
