Parts of Arizona, including the towns of Heber, Show Low, Bellemont and Prescott, are near or above 200% of normal rainfall so far during the monsoon, which started June 15 and runs through September. So, yeah, when it does rain, we’re in fear.”
“It’s just that wildfires have changed everything. “We still need the rains and all that and we really need the monsoons around here,” said Henneman, who is staying with family while his house dries out. His wife was babysitting and had the back door open two weeks ago when heavy rain fell and sent a few inches of rain and mud through the home.
Bret Henneman estimates he has about 3,500 sandbags around his home just north of Flagstaff where two wildfires burned this spring.
