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Monsoon flooding devastates Mojave Desert town — but also reveals its heart

When Mary Firestine woke up, she didn’t know it was going to rain. Weather forecasts for that mid-July Sunday in the rural desert city of Twentynine Palms showed just a slight chance. But that afternoon, the sky darkened and the wind howled. The clouds spit out quarter-sized hail. Water poured in through Firestine’s sliding back … Leer más