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Socorro Residents Dealing With Flooded Street

Posted: 6:04 pm MDT June 30, 2009Updated: 6:26 pm MDT June 30, 2009

The continuing chance of rain is not very reassuring for Socorro residents who are still feeling the affects of earlier storms.

Socorro residents living on Coker Street were evacuated on Monday because the intense rain flooded the dirt road that leads to people's houses and they couldn't enter or leave their properties.

As KFOX reported, they found shelter at a Socorro High School gym. But the shelter was closed by the El Paso Red Cross on Tuesday afternoon. They said there were about 24 evacuees initially. But the last eight went back to their homes this afternoon. One resident told KFOX what happened to him.

"I was able to come in and out of my property for the past few days. But this morning, that's when I got my truck stuck there. I couldn't move it. It was parked right there next to the red car. My friend has a tractor and I had to call him to come help me," said Alex Gutierrez.

The owner of a property on Coker hired a tractor operator to fix the section of the street right in front of his home.

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