Mora County commission makes disaster declaration after flooding washed out roads

Some residents of Mora County were stranded in their mountain communities after the road in was washed away by flooding from heavy rains overnight Tuesday.

N.M. 434 is closed five miles north of Mora, from mile marker 5 to mile marker 8, while crews work to repair the road, according to the state Department of Transportation.

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