Flash flood in the desert

[Paul G]

Our local news station KTAR had this video on today. We get warned all summer long about being in a dry wash, or trying to drive through a wash with water in it, and how dangerous it can be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yCnQuILmsM

[johnnycharger]

That's crazy!
Thanks for sharing it

[daveco]

Very interesting video, thanks for posting.

[charge69]

It is amazing the amount of debris in the front of the flashflood just gets bigger and bigger! That frontal wall alone is going to do some serious damage to anything in it's path.  Amazing lesson there on how the Grand Canyon was formed over millions of years.  Thanks

[Budnicks]

it's amazing how fast they come up & what they carry along with them....

[Troy]

I was hiking near Moab Utah once and was walking along a dry riverbed like the one in the video. After a while the walls continued to rise until I was in a canyon. I didn't think much about the water (it was very dry with no chance of precipitation) until I turned a corner and saw what was left of a rather large tree wedged sideways about 15 feet above my head. The amount of pressure it must have taken for that to happen really got my attention! Imagine following that mass of water and debris in the video a bit farther until it made it's way into a narrow canyon.

Troy

[charge69]

If you got caught in that flashflood, especially in a narrow canyon, you would just become part of the debris! Sayonora Baby!

[Iceyone]

That dumbass guy and girl are lucky one of them didn't trip and fall down running from that thing. The debris would grind you down to nothing.

[burnout.dawg]

What caught my attention was that the source of this flash flood was a storm 40+ miles away. How would one know there was a flood coming? Frightening!

[Paul G]

What caught my attention was that the source of this flash flood was a storm 40+ miles away. How would one know there was a flood coming? Frightening!

Absolutely. You don't know when one is coming or how severe it might be. This time of year it is raining in the mountains somewhere. The funny thing, we have named rivers around here that don't have any water in them. Some roads have bridges that cross, some roads go right through the river bottom.

[A383Wing]

That dumbass guy and girl are lucky one of them didn't trip and fall down running from that thing. The debris would grind you down to nothing.

I was thinking the same thing...idiots!

[NHCharger]

That dumbass guy and girl are lucky one of them didn't trip and fall down running from that thing. The debris would grind you down to nothing.

I was thinking the same thing...idiots!

Yup.

[70moparman]

This looks like a nice dry spot to set up camp...  And look at all that firewood rapidly approaching... What, what the!!

[Fred]

That was pretty amazing.