Flash flooding from record-breaking rainfall in the Southwestern U.S. yesterday has killed at least two people in Arizona when flood waters swept away their vehicles, reports Fox News.

A woman died after her car was swept away and became trapped against a bridge in Tucson, and a 76-year-old woman drowned when her husband tried to drive across a flooded wash in Pinal County south of Phoenix.

Remnants of Hurricane Norbert pushed into the Southwest to create severe floods in Nevada and Arizona, and swamped Phoenix with enough rainfall — about 3 inches — to break the previous rainfall record of 2.91 inches set in 1933.

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