Colorado town braces for historic flood as heavy rains batter south-west

Mandatory evacuations in Arizona and New Mexico with Pagosa Springs warned of potentially ‘catastrophic’ deluge Heavy rainfall produced flash flooding and mandatory evacuations in a swath of the south-west on Sunday, including in a Colorado tourist town bracing for its main river to rise to historic levels, as weary residents in the normally arid region deal with another drenching.

Officials in Pagosa Springs, a town of more than 2,000 in the Rockies located near ski…