EVEN BIGGER Debris Flow Flash Flood in Flagstaff, Arizona Drone Footage
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- A monster, pitch-black debris flow makes its was through Flagstaff Arizona. This is a flash flood emergency, and another has been has been declared by the city. All of this from just over 2 inches of rain hitting the San Fransisco Peaks 'burn scar' area, see the result from both the ground and a drone.
00:00 - Intro
01:30 - Reed moves for intercept
03:09 - Initial Flash Flood arrives
04:27 - Details on the debris flow
05:14 - Flood reaches Flagstaff.
06:15 - Drone survey of Flagstaff
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Never Stop Chasing.
Your videos are phenomenal with how you explain what is happening. I enjoy showing your videos to my Earth Science class where I teach.
As a resident of Flag, I really appreciate this video.
And I'm thoroughly impressed with all the footage you managed to get.
Well thank you but I am sorry for the mess your beautiful home town has been dealing with. Looks like the monsoon ramps up again this weekend
We are so lucky to have Reed share his knowledge with us. Thank you.
@Al Alberto You do think Reed is very knowledgeable about weather???? You need to watch just a few of his videos then you will seeeeeeee. Have a great day.
I’m about 1.5 hours away from Flagstaff Az. Raining cats and dogs here!
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2hrs south. Thunderstorms just kicking off now.
Any floods?
No horses?
Be careful if you go outside you might step on a Poodle!!!!
These storms never usually pass over the peaks, these storms always develop over the peaks, get bigger, then dump. Happens every monsoon season here in flagstaff
I live about 60 miles Southwest of Flagstaff. Thank you for pointing out the dangers of the flash floods. It only takes a few inches of water crossing the road to wash your car downstream.
Well Done Gods.🌷🌷🌷for brutal USA
Like the drone music 👍🎶
good video. Those drones really can tell the story in videos, I liked the flood music too.
Great work Sir thanks for all that you do!
Like that fresh haircut. Stick w/that stylist 👍
Thank you Dr. Reed for the updates and keeping us informed. I pray that everyone will be safe.
You have people that keeps you're drains clear so water goes through quicker an gutters
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A young girl that attended the High School here in Cottonwood AZ died last year due to flash flooding. She didn’t think the water flow was strong and it didn’t look deep. What she couldn’t see is the road portion had washed away. She got caught and her car was submerged and she actually called 911 and her grandfather who was a fire captain. She waited for them but by the time they got there her car was under water and she was nowhere to be found, they said the wash ended up about 12 feet deep and even the emergency crew was having. Very tough times combing the wash. It was just a tragic sad event that the whole city was was just devastated. They naked a softball field after her at the high school. She was a softball player for the high school. My granddaughter was a friend of hers. The whole city was involved in someway trying to help find her. They did not find her body until a few days later about a mile or so down river. Her car was close to to where it went over once the water subsided. all it took was a split wrong decision. I preach to my granddaughter since she just got her license every time it rains. She laughs at me but I don’t care I won’t stop telling her.
Yeah he didn't show any of the flooding on the East Side.. the flooding on the east side in the Sunnyside neighborhood is way worse than the rich neighborhoods off of Fort Valley. But nobody wants to talk about that.
Excellent Reed. Good to see you again. Remember storm chasing on OK. You're the best.
Used to live in Flagstaff! Beautiful state and the 4 corners.🙏❤️
I live in BC Canada. Where fires are present always. The city of Merritt where I lived I fought hard for river dyking and to no avail. The town I grew up in was pushed out by fire then flashfloods in the night. I fought the city and forestry and sawmills for protection. My place was saved and everything around was demolished or gone. I lived closest to the river for 40 years I watched it always. Big mountain storms that no one sees . The water has to come down somewhere. Be safe always. Good footage . Good on you for informing
I live in Montana. It's either Floods or Fires during our summers depending on the year. We had a Terrible Drought last Summer, A Flood would have been Bitter Sweet. This Year, we had the Yellowstone River & Rock Creek (Beartooth Mtn's) Have a Record Flood in June & just last week we had a Hella Down Pour with flash flooding. Our Reservoir was empty at the end of last summer & all winter. This summer, it's almost full again.
Yes catastrophic flooding out there this summer. Hopefully things are getting fixed around Yellowstone
I love your video. I cannot wait for your next video coming soon!
Very interesting! Thank you!
Good timing
I've never really seen flash flood footage before, despite being a weather enthusiast. This is crazy stuff and the way you present it is fantastic
Wow
Nice river flow
Yup, I agree
It's the year of the WATER
so awesome
Thanks for sharing
Flagstaff resident here. We had two big fires this year and several in the years before. Thanks to that, whenever it rains the we get bad flooding. Locals know the roads to avoid when it rains to avoid the flooding but people who live to the North of town get hit bad. Last year the main road through town, route 66, was absolutely covered in deris from the fire. It was amazing and horrifying. I work at a hotel and I've had to help people relocate all summer thanks to fire and flooding.
hows the timberline area and doney park?
Thabks, Reed from Chickasaw Nation Oklahoma.😊🌵
Very interesting and informative 👍
great video they did a great job diverting the water away from the buildings
Thanks!
Powerful & dangerous, s0 Dope!.
I c u Reed wit the TrapBeatz!. 🎶 🥁
Love the sweat band in preparation of the run 😂
expert coverage, Thanks
Welcome to my beautiful mountain town, crazy too see a big TH-camr in my home town.
alternate title: Up Shultz creek without a paddle?
I live in Sedona, and after watching Reed chase all over the US, its kind of different seeing him in areas I know well. We have had some incredible monsoon storms this summer.
from Phx a decade ago so I feel ya Jeffrey. Seeing Reed in Az area was almost like having him over for lunch. lol
Lived and loved Flagstaff
Nice haircut, Reed!! ❤
Interesting close look at this sad situation.
yesssssssss keep the trap beats coming man!!!!
Does that runoff go into lake Mead?
Thanks Reed!
Thanks
This is my first year here , and the floods are crazy, especially around Doney Park
I used to live in Prescott valley and I always worried about the weather up there. I hope they figure it out. It's a good part of the country to live in
Very well produced video. Dramatic and educational. Nice work!
My little neck of Arizona hardly ever gets touched.. It'll rain for like 5 minutes... But the fact that FLagstaff knows how the flood water flows and will prepare for it ahead of time. Is amazing in itself...
I remember as a child taking a survival training class in school for desert survival and flash flooding during monsoon season. That was decades ago… wonder if teachers still teach it today.
I remember those Desert survival classes too. And no they don't teach them anymore!
I'm from Page (Lake Powell) but now in Phoenix. My daughter got stuck in Flag night before last. She was stopped on 89 due to flooding. I almost didn't believe her since I knew it wasn't snowing. Thanks for the video. I now believe my kid. LOL
Great job as always! Stay safe!
Was just driving back from phoenix to Dallas and had some crazy lightning storms the whole way back. Most of it wasnt even raining was just insane lighting the whole way back
Excellent
Reed started driving out of Sedona. Fun to recognize. I looked into living in flag 20 yrs ago.chose to live in Oak Creek Canyon, wonderful wilderness.
What a beautiful place you live
Never found someone who does this around where I live. Northern AZ gets crazy flooding sometimes. Not like recent news but in comparison to its location and environment
I'm 2 hours away in Vernon, but similar altitude and climate and its WONDERFUL.
Yes, I recognized Sedona immediately! Arizona is an amazing state. It has so many beautiful natural wonders!
I was thinking the exact same thing! I immediately recognized 89A right at the beginning coming out of uptown Sedona. That drive is so beautiful, love visiting there to see the leaves change in the fall ❤️
Fascinating video! Great job.
I love the information text boxes. Hope you keep them!
i have just found your channel thank you for being real talking about it and thank you for risking situations very knowledgeable and so interesting these videos are fantastic .. subbed :)
Thank you so much Kizzy
@@ReedTimmerWx there was exactly ZERO debris in that flow !!! but Thanks for trying to sensationalize the footage you captured ❤️. if you were there for the previous storm (whenever it was, you can still see the "wet" high water marks on the bank) you would have been able to document the ACTUAL debris flow. MAN the internet is awesome for fooling the Suckers 💯
also, you should spell check the info in the boxes or at least read what you have in them before you upload
absolutely KILLING IT with the new editing and the haircut. Never stop chasing!
The production is all Brian O’toole
Now this is a weatherman!
Also it's amazing seeing how good someone can get at something if they have crazy passion for it and it shows here.
The weather is literally all Reed does day in and day out, it’s definitely his passion but I would say more his lifestyle. He is extremely educated in it. Back in 2020 here in TN we had a bad weather system popping up, Reed called the tornado outbreak literally 5 days before and he pinpointed certain areas in Middle TN. Good thing I had been a follower of his because I was aware and prepared to what was coming. On 3/3/2020 at 2:50am an EF3 came thru my town in Cookeville ,TN, destroyed hundreds of homes and 19 people were killed. 😪
@@jenniferbossert2088 wasn't that the one that went through Nashville? I remember one going through it around the time because I lived very near to Nashville then
@@woahtherr5371 Yes, it traveled for over 2 hours. Craziest storm!
Gods have treated well for brutal USA
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Damn! I was just there Thursday on my was to Las Angeles and stopped there again on Sunday when we were coming home. OKC to LA was brutal. We drove thru several storms in Arizona New Mexico and part's of California
Really nice footage Reed. Much Love Debbie
Mitigation needs to be in smaller increments and start in the foothills. This would help reduce wildfires, increase livestock and wildlife feed, reduce downstream flooding, recharge the aquifer/water table, save lives, be durable and practical without requiring huge infrastructure, ongoing maintenance, breakable parts, big $$$, etc.
Gully repair is important too.
It would help to divert storm water into bioswales to water orchards instead of directly into rivers. City streets could employ curb cuts, bioswales and trees to reduce the heat island effects, add to pavement life, make walking and biking more comfortable, add food resiliency by planting area-appropriate food trees, reduce residential and commercial watering costs, reduce storm drain mitigation needs, reduce downstream flooding.
By reusing this rainwater for landscape maintenance it also reduces the strain on the electrical grid to because *water is heavy* and has to be pumped long distances. This also forgoes the need for expensive, harmful water-producing infrastructure like desalination plants.
The other losses in these events is organic matter and carbon rich topsoil. They are important to regeneration in the burnout areas as well as supporting the watertable elsewhere.
Brad Lancaster has done huge progress in Tucson at little cost and big rewards to the residents. Water isn't the enemy, bad planning is.
We pay to pump out water and then pay to pump it back in. That is crazy. It would be better to do a paradigm shift in our thinking and think outside immediate 'solutions'...
Absolutely. Even pumping and de salinization can be done relatively economically with the right apparatus and the abundant sunshine. We can do it if egos, greed and politics don't get in the way.
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Pumping and desalination are expensive, period. If we can avoid having to move water, that is some savings.
The thing is to use what you have better. Look up Brad Lancaster, Geoff Lawton and Andrew Millison on recharging aquifers, water tables, regreening, etc.
I am a Floridian and the main thing I noticed in Barstow was the total lack of drainage. It would rain 10 min and totally flood everything. I love the information in this comment. Just seems like common sense.
@@helenwalker716
Brad Lancaster and Geoff Lawton gives great advice on how to best set up rainwater harvesting earthworks so they work without dailing.
Been thru two major Aug monsoon floods in Glendale. First one in '64
The backing track is awesome! Who is the artist that created the music?
I live on the north end of flagstaff and that flooded road is the only way home for those of us on that end. We has 3 days of floods that week and that road was closed for a few hours each day.
I am curious, can native species be considered for flood mitigation or does the dry climate prevent that by selecting for species with taproot structure instead of widening root balls?
A lot of really good information in this video. Thanks Reed.
Great Vid, great shots, and I like to hear what you are saying and pointing to, would suggest you get a microphone so you can talk when not looking at the camera so we can hear what you are saying.
Wow! Thanks for explaining 👍🏼😊
Good job! Thank you.
This video is one of your best!
Its "weird" how s USA has a lot of flat land, so, obviusly there are mapped areas where flash floods can occur but here in Brazil most of the terrain, mainly the "flood-prone" ones are much narrower than there. So, when a flood happens, normally are much worse and we have a lot of people living in so called "slope" terrains. If you are curious about these you cam search about the city of Petropolis and its floods. The story is really sad, but its easier to understand how things are here... in a heavy rainny country
Just to let u know, i did some little reserach rn and in Petropolis it rainned 24 CENTIMETERS in a matters of 2 to 3 hours... this is insanelly absurd and i think u more than ever know this
600 mm in 24hrs also...
Gods have treated well for brutal USA
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Yes debre flows can be big especially when we have not had alot of rain for a few years ,quite normal
Are there any cisterns in place to capture the runoff to utilize the water later, I know when we stayed on St. John’s island the house we stayed in had a cistern in place for each dwelling
Great video Dr. Timmer
There's been really bad flooding here in Northern New Mexico too, ash and debris from the Hermit's Peak fire.
Any rain 🌧 is welcome regardless flash floods issues, people from Texas will be happy to see it happen in their state even north Mexico they are having issues with with water. Having rain is a bless.
Wow, so fast and dangerous.
Thank you for your take time in the world know about natural disasters. I'm sorry
This video is excellent! There isn't anything in the video that is new to me...
except for the great example you set for folks making videos. Thank You so very much.
Cool video, would be cool to go work for Search and Rescue out there!
It seems like during times when the larger West is stuck in a mega drought, the Southwestern Monsoon trends stronger. These last two years immediately come to mind, both events were exceptional. Again back in 2014-2015, both events were even more extreme.
Is there any hard data on this correlation? Or it as simple as- La Nina causes them both?
The extreme heat that precedes monsoon season can make it stronger. Stronger 4 corners high and more southerly flow off the eastern tropical pacific. I suspect the luke warm water there is playing a role also in tandem with the string high near four corners deon the extreme heat that preceded it. Typically, El Niño years result in the bigger monsoon seasons according to David Rankin
I lived out there 82-97, and the heavy rain/snow winters of 82-84 were followed by very wet springs and summers from Utah to Colorado and Idaho to Wyoming... and New Mexico was very rainy most of the 80s in the summer.
Watch THE TWO PREACHERS. THEY HAVE CHARTS THAT SHOW DATA FROM 1950 ON, ALL KINDS OF NATURAL DISASTERS, AND IT'S NOT JUST THAT EVERYONE HAS CAMERA PHONES NOW!
THE WHOLE WORLD IS GETTING HAMMERED! REALLY BAD. AND I ALSO SAW A VIDEO WHICH EXPLAINED THAT HUMAN ACTIVITY IS NOT THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM-- ONLY CREATING A TINY FRACTION OF CO2. IT'S THE OCEAN AND VOLCANOES.... AND IF EVERYONE GETS ELECTRIC CARS, OUR ELECTRIC GRID COULDN'T SUPPORT 4 MILLION EVS, LET ALONE EVERYONE DRIVING ONE!!!! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!!
It's not nearly as simple as people want it to be.
Go look at cosnino road after the next flood, that’s even crazier
Thanks for sharing 👍
Hi Reed, be careful! !
Thank you for showing this! Wow! Great educational video for living in the valleys of Arizona. I lived in Northern California where we had a dip down creek crossing. I used the same rule of time after a heavy rainfall as to whether I would go all the way down that road or use another, longer route. Unfortunately we haven't had any big rains in two years☹️
This isn’t valley. This is in the mountains and San Francisco peaks is highest point in AZ, 12k+
@@LisaFaiss
But Fort Valley Rd. is still in the Flag area, so it really impacts the car travel and lives of those in that area, at 7,000Ft. elevation.
Thanks for sharing💯💯💯
Aww thought and prayers
I was on a road trip vacation through Flagstaff and Sedona just one day before the rains hit. Strange.
Strange or just normal weather
Reed can you turn the music down a bit it’s hard to hear you
Safe travels, Reed!
That was interesting and educational. Thank you Reed for all you do. You need to be awarded for the work you do. Your an awesome guy 👍👍👍👍
Wow!
Ooooh...Reed got a haircut! Looks good!
Never knew Arizona had areas of such beautiful green landscape. Looks like a really nice place to live.
Watching reruns of Stormchasers brought me here lol... I grew up in Phoenix AZ and I remember this time of year when the Monsoon Season would arrive. During the day it would be very hot, and thunderstorm clouds 360 degrees surrounding the Metro area. At dusk into the night those Storms would put a pounding like no other. The Lightning is very intense and thunder is very loud. The next Day it would be a repeat and so on.. I will always remember the smell of hot Asphalt steaming from the rain. I moved to Idaho in 1990. Those were my memories.
Wow, that was amazing to see this in the process of turning into a river. Thank you for your explanations also! I hope they can get the water into the low lakes, if they are close enough.
start at 2:55 and roll to 4:10. Wow. We get some wicked flash floods on the lee-ward side of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, especially in the foothills from 8000' altitude to 5000' . 2 feet of water sometimes. But it's all in good fun !
not for beavers and beetles and humans and such, but for the most part . . .
Potential homebuyers should consider all previous catastrophic events and ALWAYS check your elevation. Fires create future conditions for catastrophic mudslides and the potential for faster moving, more dangerous flash flooding.
This video is EXCELLENT 👍
Reed, what was the name of the tornado chasing show you were in and where did your buddy from that show go. I loved you in those shows.
Nice Work.
Plan Ahead : find out if you live in a 'flood plain' if you do, move to a place that is up out of he flood plain, two zones minimum.
Growing up in Albuquerque we would get these 'gully washers' all the time, the big storms would billow up and dump on the Sandias east of town and the floods would make it all the way down to our neighborhoods on it's way to the Rio Grande. later the city invested in HUGE water diversion systems, giant concrete stream beds to the river
Sandia peak is a fantastic hike. I saw a black-tailed rattlesnake last time I was there
Where does all that water flow to ? Any certain lake?
It’s trying to get to the Rio De Flag. I am sure it eventually heads toward the Colorado River
To see a scientist so submerged in his subject is truly impressive.
Hi, indeed a more appropriate word to use. I was using 'submerged' to fit the scene Reed was desribing., 'immersed' would still have had the same effect. Have a good day.
I'm convinced, Reed, your video's have saved many American lives. From England, God bless you man. Over here, in the UK, Flood damage is standard cover under Household Insurance policies, luckily...
Really appreciate the educational pop up boxes. I do wonder if there is a way to capture more of this water in containment basins and use injection wells to replenish aquifers or ground table around city wells. I would think Flagstaff gets there water from wells given there are no lakes or perennial rivers in the area.
Great idea. Since they are low & getting lower. Somehow capture the water & put in the low 🌊 rivers dams & lakes.
@@marjoriecoulsoncoulson2582 Getting permits to build anything like that would take years and millions of dollars in engineering studies.
I did do some additional research and found Flagstaff gets much of their water from Lake Mary…I’d forgotten about that lake. But it no longer supplies enough water and they’ve dug wells.
@@robnamowicz8073 AZ is one of the best states in water management because they have to be. There last in line for Colorado River water, so Phoenix invested in injection wells to pump CAP water into their aquifers used for drinking water. It costs millions of dollars to drill wells as well and some have been drying up in the outskirts of the metro area.
Another thing Tempe did was construct a low cost dam system using air baffles to capture the Salt River runoff. It’s a fairly large lake and they used that system for over ten years till they could afford to pay for a permanent dam. These structures are also worth it because allowing that water to flow in contained have wiped out the historic bridges into the Main Street of Tempe near Arizona State University. Flagstaff is getting floods that are wiping out neighborhoods and restricting traffic to the Grand Canyon and Glen Canyon Dam. They’re probably going to be spending hundreds of millions on diversion channels to contain flooding anyway. They cannot afford to lose tourism in that area.
Stanford is doing research on the injection wells and indicated that it’s energy intensive, but there is potential for wind and solar.
@@LisaFaiss Thank you so much! That these projects succeed is important to the people of AZ. Water is playing catchup in the west. Here in the Michigan too many people take water for granted. It is the source of good life, and should be treated with reverence. Your detailed message is most appreciated. Thanks again and good luck.
Storming here in Tucson too
We live outside of Tucson, nothing yet. Just a drizzle.