Eighteen thousand buildings were damaged when 115 MPH winds blasted down out of the Vulture Mountains and crashed into northern Phoenix and its western valley suburbs. Thousands of trees were uprooted, steel radio towers bent like sticks, and power lost in 250,000 homes in what Red Cross relief workers called the worst windstorm in the history of Phoenix. However, wind was only part of the problem, as heavy rains poured as much as two inche

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