Madam Drachman and the 1887 Arizona flood: Part 1. The Stormy Calm Half of this story is fake, but the gripping part is the other half that is not By Mig Reyes-Mariano   In 1887, Arizona faced two major natural disasters. Summer storms brought heavy rains that caused destructive floods, washing out bridges, submerging streets, and reshaping the San Pedro River near Mammoth, where fields were stripped to bare sand (National Weather Service, n.d.; Noonan, 2013). Earlier that year, on May 3, the powerful Sonora earthquake, estimated at magnitude 7.4–7.6, struck northern Mexico but was strongly felt in southern Arizona,