Flooding temporarily closes Montana Avenue in East El Paso

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- Montana West near Justice Drive and Tierra Este has reopened after flooding temporarily closed the road overnight last week.

Carlos Vijarro, who lives less than two minutes from Montana West, said, “I'm sure some of the vehicles were not meant to drive through that amount of water, but, they tried it.”

“Some of them failed. Some of them succeeded, but it was just not, not worth the try for us,” Carlos said. “Even with the rains that we had yesterday, it was a ten minute rain drop that happened. All of, Tierra Este, gets completely flooded in a couple of minutes."

Several vehicles became stranded while trying to drive through the high water.

ABC-7's Olivia Vara asked the City of El Paso, El Paso Water and TxDOT about the flooding response, cleanup and planned drainage improvements.

TxDOT said the flooding happened in an active construction zone and that drainage installation is in progress.

“It's just gets to the point where we really don't see where the taxpayer's money is being used, especially for drainage systems or anything like that. Like, it's something that could be fixed. We just don't see any progress in it, especially in this side of town,” Carlos said.