Scottsdale patrol horse finds joy in muddy mess left behind by Rosa storm
Oct 3, 2018, 10:44 AM | Updated: 10:49 am
PHOENIX — Tuesday’s rain from Tropical Depression Rosa might have clogged up Valley freeways and put a damper on your afternoon — literally — but not everyone was inconvenienced by it.
The Scottsdale Police Department posted a video of one of its patrol horses rolling around in a large puddle left behind by the storm.
Rainy days at the Scottsdale PD Mounted Unit Barn mean big mud puddle fun. Tug is enjoying his splash time with Wrangler Sizemore this morning. #SPDMountedUnit pic.twitter.com/ntArQUmX0R
— ScottsdalePD (@ScottsdalePD) October 3, 2018
“Rainy days at the Scottsdale PD Mounted Unit Barn mean big mud puddle fun,” part of the tweet read.
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Tug, a horse in the department’s mounted unit, was “enjoying his splash time with Wrangler Sizemore.”
Nearly 2-and-a-half inches of rain fell in Phoenix on Tuesday, making it the wettest October day on record and the eighth-wettest day ever.
While the rain was much needed in the Valley, it caused many problems for residents.
Flooding closed schools and pooled in streets and on freeways and triggered flash flood warnings all around the state.
A Phoenix intersection — Cactus Road and 35th Avenue — was closed Wednesday after a large sinkhole formed.
An earthen dam in Arizona’s southern desert could also fail because the lake behind it is swollen with storm runoff.
A flash flood warning for part of metro Phoenix was extended into Wednesday.
