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Historic flooding grips the Four Corners; Ivanti remediation deadline arrives · EM Morning Brief

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  Good morning, I'm Cedric and this is your EM Morning Brief for Monday, November 2, 2026.
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  An atmospheric river has driven river and flash flooding across Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and southern Utah and the National Weather Service is carrying a particularly dangerous situation tag over the Four Corners in northern Arizona.
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  A gauge on the Moenkopi Wash near Tuba City reads 33.74ft against a flood stage of 27ft, with water encroaching on homes in lower Moenkopi Village.
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  The Little Colorado river has climbed above moderate flood stage with further rises to major stage expected and flooding reaching Ames Acres and Bushman Acres in Winslow.
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  In southwest Colorado, the San Juan river at Pagosa Springs is running toward a major flood crest above the 17.8 foot mark set in October 1911 and mandatory evacuations cover low lying ground along the San Juan, Rio Blanco, Navajo
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  and Piedra rivers.
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  Rainfall has ended across northern and central Arizona and the flood watch There expired at 5am but considerable aerial flooding remains in place and river flooding stays possible into Tuesday.
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  A second and separate flood threat sits over Florida where an upper level low in the Gulf and the Bahamas keeps feeding thunderstorms across the peninsula.
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  NWS Melbourne has issued back to back flash flood warnings for Brevard county this morning and flood watches cover east central, south and west central Florida into Monday evening.
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  On the federal side, Colorado Governor Jared Polis has asked for an expedited major disaster declaration covering Archuleta and Rio Grande counties built on just under $27 million in validated public infrastructure damage from the October flooding in Cyber.
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  The federal remediation deadline for two actively exploited Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerabilities arrives today under the CISA known Exploited Vulnerabilities directive closing the window for agencies still running affected appliances.
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  Let's run through the states, Arizona, the National Weather Service and Flagstaff reports life threatening flash flooding on the Mong Kopi Wash near Tuba City where The gauge reached 33.74ft against a flood stage of 27ft, and on the Little
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  Colorado river where further rises above major flood stage are expected with impacts to Ames Acres and Bushman Acres in Winslow.
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  The Verde river near Clarkdale and near Camp Verde remains above major flood stage, structures are flooded and emergency management reports evacuations along the river.
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  The Gila river near Solomon is in major flood where high water reaches homes and businesses on the north sides of Solomon, Safford and Thatcher.
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  Sedona has placed evacuation zones 8, 9 and 10 in GO status as Oak Creek rises quickly and the White Mountain Apache Tribe Emergency Operations center placed River Road residents on set status with an evacuation center at Canyon Day
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  Junior High Salt River Project is releasing water from Granite Reef Dam flooding low water crossings on the Salt river including McKellips Road.
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  Colorado NWS Grand Junction has a particularly dangerous situation.
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  Flood warning running until 4:15pm Mountain time for western Archuleta, western Dolores, southeastern La Plata, Montezuma and west central San Miguel counties.
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  Forecasters describe significant and historic flooding across southwest Colorado with 1.5 to 3 inches of rain already down, numerous roads closed and some roads washed out or collapsed.
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  The San Juan river at Pagosa Springs is forecast into major flood above the 17.8 foot crest of October 1911.
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  Crest forecasts moved several times over the weekend from near 17ft to 22ft, so operations should work from the current river forecast rather than any single figure.
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  Mandatory evacuations cover designated low lying areas along the San Juan River, Rio Blanco, Navajo and Piedra Rivers, the town of South Fork and parts of Del Norte.
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  Red Cross shelters are open in Durango, Pagosa Springs and La Hara, and the Colorado National Guard has committed ground search and rescue teams.
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  Pagosa Springs is closed to incoming traffic and the town reports sewage discharging into the San Juan river near the First Street Bridge with sewer service possibly reduced.
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  Florida an upper level low over the Gulf in the Bahamas keeps heavy rain over the peninsula.
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  NWS Melbourne issued flash flood warnings for northern and southern Brevard county early this morning.
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  Both on radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain.
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  Flood watches run until 7pm Eastern for East central Florida, including Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Volusia and Okeechobee counties and for south Florida, including metro Palm beach, inland Broward, Collier and mainland Monroe.
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  A separate watch for Highlands county runs until 3pm Forecasters note low predictability on where the heaviest rain sets up.
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  Now back to this morning's updates.
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  Hawaii FEMA has denied individual assistance for Hawaii county after Hurricane Lala in August and for Kauai county after Hurricane Lowell in September.
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  Hawaii County Civil Defense says FEMA found the damage did not exceed local and state recovery capacity and acting Administrator Darrell Oliveira says the county will appeal with added qualitative data on insurance coverage, median household income and trauma impacts.
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  Kauai county is weighing an appeal with the State Emergency Management Agency.
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  Separately, the application deadline for the Hawaii island earthquake disaster closed November 1st.
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  The same day in person, FEMA help on the island ended.
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  New Mexico NWS Albuquerque reports major flooding on the Animas river near Cedar Hill where the river is near an all time high and minor flooding at Farmington with moderate flooding forecast.
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  The San Juan river at Farmington is in minor flood with major flooding forecast into Tuesday morning and the river at Shiprock is forecast to crest at 16.2ft early Tuesday against a flood stage of 15.5ft.
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  State Highway 170 has washed out between mile markers 3 and 18.
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  San Juan county emergency managers are telling residents in low lying areas to prepare supplies and be ready to evacuate with shelter available at McGee Park.
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  The Navajo Division of Transportation is working major washouts under a plan coordinated through the Navajo Nation Emergency Operations center and the Denahatso Loop is impassable.
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  The Rio Chama is out of its banks above El Vado Reservoir with several roads closed.
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  High wind warnings run until 6pm in the South Central Mountains, Central Highlands and Guadalupe county where forecasters expect widespread power outages.
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  NWS Salt Lake City carried a flood warning through 8am Mountain time for west central Kane county and east central Washington county, naming Zion national park with flooding of slot canyons and normally dry washes underway.
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  Southeastern Utah sits inside the Grand Junction Particularly Dangerous Situation Warning, which lists Blanding, Mexican Hat, Aneth and Monticello among the locations seeing flooding with numerous roads closed.
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  The warning text directs people to avoid all area waterways Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands NWS Guam has a high surf advisory and a rip current statement in effect for Guam, Rota, Tinian and Saipan until 4am Tuesday local
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  time with hazardous surf and strong rip currents along exposed reefs and beaches.
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