Amazing Flash Flood / Debris Flow Southern Utah HD
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July 18th 2013. Massive debris flow / flash flood in Southern Utah. Close to 3" of rain fell north of my location and I filmed these shots 6+ hours after the fact.
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Everyone: Massive flooding
post 10: (grabs rake) This is what I've trained for....
ItothaGO i get this comment
Came from one of his videos
Gretas RAGE you idiot calling him a weirdo
at least out there will be no cars splashing him xD
I also got this. If I'm not watching natural flash floods, I'm watching someone emptying them. I need a life.
This is why you never camp in a dry wash...it may be sunny and blue skies overhead, but that doesn't mean sh*t to water!
Snarkapotamus, I was thinking the same thing!
And... this is also why you don't camp at the bottom of a box canyon.
Wait so....what are you saying ? Are you.... Saying that I shouldn't go to where this is happening and wait for the edge of the wash to hit my feet with all the debris and sticks and then set up my tent at that exact spot at that moment? Is that the advice you're giving? Thank you because I was just about to do it
what tho
I think it's obvious not to try to camp in this
Well like it doesn't need to be said sort of like if you want to watch TV don't sit in a fire to watch TV
when you're making hot choc but the powder won't mix with the milk
😂😂😂😂😂 I'm weak
Booom!! Magic mind!
hahahahah!!!
I love eating the clumps, so gooooood
When your mixing your hot chocolate, try a shot of peppermint schnapps, helps mix stuff better...lol
One of my favorite geological sayings: “There is no such thing as a former riverbed.”
I feel like as a geologist you should probably know that isn't true. Fluvial systems become a part of the geologic record constantly.
@@CSpottsGaming - I was referring to active rivers that change course. Sometimes the river will come back to a recently abandoned channel. I know the ones from antiquity aren’t coming back, especially the ones that are uplifted. 😀
More like dormant river bed.
The only thing that changes is Mother Nature and the presidents
Totally agree, have a farm they changed the watershed 90 years ago and last year out of the blue it broke the barriers and went into the old riverbed causing a lot of trouble
Its so weird how the leading edge of the flood looks soooo dry.
The River Sticks
dont hate me for being unoriginal
@@polishmothproductions I wish I'd thought of that one!
i imagine dust is being kicked up from the dry land ahead of wave and it lands on the debris.
Horizontal landslide!
The same thing happens in western US forest soil where the soil is very dry and the right particle size to form a thick film on the water surface.
Enough dust/dirt and the edge of a drop or small trail of water is "dry" and does not stick like normal water does.
The comment under his high school yearbook picture said "Most likely to die in a flash flood in Utah." lol
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Good one 😂
😂😂😂
The way the front of it rolls is so amazing to watch. So strange. Never seen anything like this before, thank you 👍
Be glad you haven't.
Water is the strongest thing on earth.
damn that water needs to hydrate
nice one
It's the River Sticks.
Don't you mean STYX?
why, !
Love it ! lol Larry is a great example of Captain Obvious... hence, no clue.
And you cross by letting the ferrywoman Karon speak to the manager.
@@larrybaxter6881 Always funny when somebody misses the joke
I like to teach newbees about desert safety. This video is a great example.
No shit! I mean wtf was he thinking! He just about became apart of that debris flow!
Of how not to sit and watch a flood as it comes at you. Could have very easily been his last day.
I think OP meant not camping on a dry wash (the lower flat part of land caused from flash floods). If you were camping in a tent at night, you might not be ready to get out of the way and prob die.
Well you can teach them about where not to camp and not how risk your life for an ok shot that could’ve been done from a safe distance. What made this video worse is he got two others to do the same dumb shit he did.
@@RashaKahn You're a boring indoors cat. Please stop telling outdoors cats how to climb trees.
It only takes about 3 inches of water to knock you off your feet, and even less if there's debris in it or it is a fast current. Do NOT fuck with water folks.
As a construction worker who ignored this rule, i can confirm it will knock you on your ass
As an avid beach goer, camper, and river swimmer.
You gotta be a special kind of stupid to get knocked down by 3 inches of water.
No its fine if I just run in front of it wearing stupid footwear and holding my mobile to record when I trip and .....................
@@flightographist this is pure debris though. If that flood front even touches you, you're dead. If you were able to stand it would tear your shins in half.
That's one of the most unnaturally natural thing I've seen in a while.
One of the dumbest comments I’ve seen in a while.
@@donnebes9421 Why is it dumb Don Nebes
Great footage. You should get a drone.
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That was 7 year ago
@@edwardcardozo8325 doesn't mean he can't still get a drone
@@Nick-lx4fo Wasn't that be afordable in that time lmao
I like how theres no music I can hear what nature sounds like, pretty awesome footage thank you.
Loved that too. I rather hear all the nature noises including their conversations. It makes it so realistic
100%
There's far too many videos of natural events that have tacky music overlayed.
I want to hear the sounds
I love how you run beside it.
Cause it really does look like it's moving slowly.
But you were running and couldn't keep up.
Which means none of us would ever out run it. Head for the hills after a rain in Utah.
I love these videos.
Somewhere downstream, a rattlesnake is being turned to hamburger.
I ate rattlesnake sausage when I visited Wyoming some years ago. It was pretty damn good
@@ext93 wtf fr
it doesn't even look like water coming towards you, it looks like a wizard casted a spell that creates trees and shit
Wayne Brady 😭😂
Tree shit.
Wayne Brady , great description!
...and shit! LOL
😂😂😂
After five years of watching this video off and on, it still ranks as one of the best close up looks at how dangerous these flows can be. If you even get a foot caught in that mess you are dead. You may not drown right away but you sure as hell are going get beaten to death by all the debris.
Worst death scenario for a maid!
And in 40 million years, your fossilized bones will be named "Stupidosaurus" and get displayed in a museum
Truth. Floods of almost any kind are survivable if they're only water; but fast-moving waterborne debris is just murderous. Even if it isn't made up of interlocking pieces of wood that will cheerfully snare an ankle.
It's like a very localized tsunami wave front. One of the worst ways to die that I can think of to be honest. At least it's relatively quick.
I have lived in Arizona my whole life, especially in very remote areas (that are now suburbs). One thing I know is it is very dangerous to play chicken with a flash flood debris flow. It is not wise at all to be in a dry wash when a flash flood is coming because once the water hits you, it just gets more and more intense behind it and if you don't get to higher ground in time, you will get swept away!
I'm sure he's aware of the dangers but you gotta risk it for the brisket
"those things are dangerous!" he says as he runs down the wash in front of the debris flow. XD (great footage as usual though!)
I can not believe it was tumbling that huge rock like that on flat ground, it goes to show you the power of mother nature...
It's incredible how fast it moves!! He gets right in front of it too.. Not me.. No way.. not even for a video.. Your life is worth more than that.. please be careful!! Although I do greatly appreciate your video!! This is actually very educational.. Once people realize how fast flash floods can move, I hope they will do their best to stay away from them and know how extremely dangerous they are!
No kidding, imagine if he tripped and fell
@@hamilt55467 so here's the thing I always say.. it's not the water that bothers me in any way.. It's the Drowning.. Drowning sucks for sure!
Never seen this phenomenon before! Amazing to learn this is a regular occurrence! Thank you!! Cool! Be carefull with that!!
That was super awesome up front. You can see why people get caught up in it feeling not threatened with it moving that slow but people often get caught with their pants down all the time. Mother Nature is so awesome and unpredictable if you don’t recognize your surroundings it could be the end of you.
It's sort of mesmerizing.
This is why you never camp in a wash. The weather can be completely clear, not a cloud in sight, you're looking up at the stars and next thing you know you're being washed away. The only warning you'll have is a low rumble in the distance that slowly gets louder. By the time you realize what it is you're swimming for your life.
Bit late to the Party, but the small flashflood i happened to see was absolutley unhearable for the first two minutes it passed under my bridge. After that it startet to roar, like it should've.
Swimming in what? That stuff will drawn you in a second!
By "in a wash" what do you mean? Cuz I go camping every weekend since 10 years and I dont k ow what a wash is (I am french so I might what is it in french but not in english)
@@hectorpeze905 a dry river bed or creek bed
In a few seconds your bones will be like the branches of those trees... flesh removed and bones tumbling in front of the flood.
I feel so anxious whenever I see those things getting close to the lens.
+Tom Jefferies ditto - I wonder if for some watching this might even trigger a panic attack?!
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Turi Caederynmab Your wife was 10 yards from certain death. Sure you don't have the biggest death insurance on her?
Apart from that i got to say this is one of the most interesting footage this year. Amazing. You really came up with someting no one has done. Thanx
Turi Caederynmab k
You would love a winter ice break up. I seen it happen on the athabasca in alberta a couple time and it's incredible. Ice flowing so fast it looks like liquid until you are close enough to really see.
Woah!!! R5his is mental!! I've never seen anything like it 😮 I've never heard of anything like this happening here in the UK apart from rivers, lakes & loch's bursting their banks!
That is freaking spooky - a rolling wall of almost dry debris. And I have to say, you guys are rolling dice with your lives, that will tear you to shreds if you trip and it catches you. Great video though!
I would just stand on it
@@bluntfruntac9981 ok try it
@@antoncasciano8747 I already did it. You try it.
@@bluntfruntac9981 ok
She's wearing flip-flops too
Lessons to learn from flooding events in Sedimentology.
The front of the flood contains the material that is *less* dense than the flow itself. This material moves in the front, but gets deposited on the sides. This material is coarse grained
The other coarse grained material that is *more* dense than the flow moves within the flow, rather than in front of it
This is incredible footage. I never thought a flashflood could be this quick and all the debris its carrying. Looks dangerous!!!
It's scary how close he gets. One small trip and he could die
You know, statistically my odds are pretty good. Have fun on your drive to work!
Clearly you've never been to the beach. Good day, sir.
Aran Kalypso 😂😂😂🤣😭😭😭😭
I think he should try lava next
Would those be the running in front of a flash flood "statistics"? Keep your shoe laces tied mate. that said, nice footage though. haha
someone who can actually hold a camera while doing anything but standing !!!great footage amazing force moving that rock
trevor philips Steadicam ;)
That’s nuts! It’s moving so fast! I understand why the #1 cause of death in the desert is not dehydration; it’s drowning.
Ridiculously dangerous. The logs and timbers will bludgeon you to a pulp. And there is no one to help and no cell tower nearby.
"Sticks and stones may break my bones..."
Also, I love how expressive this dude's eyebrows are.
Let's pitch the tent on the nice soft sand down in the wash. There's no rain predicted for around here.
I love the up close pictures of the debris flowing along. It looks like rolling mud. Great pictures make a great experience, thanks.
This dude does the best flash flood videos I’ve seen, and I’ve seen lots of them here on TH-cam ... I love watching these, the power ...!!
Its nice to see people who are passionate about our natural world.
I cannot believe she was wearing flip flops, she dodged tragedy for sure. And to think he waited 6 hours for the flood to arrive, that's dedication right there. Thanks for the vid.
I don't think your microphones are picking up the low freq sound. I was with my step-grandfather near Moab, (I was 7, I don't remember where) when he screamed to get out of the wash. It sounded like a freight train coming. Gratefully, we both got out safely, thanks to my step-grandfather's experience down there. It would have been so easy to fall down or break a leg and I would have been stuck. Just a few years ago, I was in Zion when a flash flood killed a bunch of people in a slot canyon, I think it was Keyhole canyon. The SAR folks did a great job finding the bodies. It can happen. Be conservative, be safe. A few years before that, real havoc was wrought near Escalante. I got caught in desert quicksand hiking up a slot canyon a week after the flood. If I didn't have my Gitzo carbon fiber tripod extended over my shoulder, I probably wouldn't have gotten out. I can just imagine someone finding my hat, picking it up, and finding a head underneath. I am more careful now.
Glad you didn’t die in quicksand bud. I had no idea all this shit was even going on in Utah
Omg are making this shit up? Or is this something my east-european -normal-woods-and-plains-hiking-ass don't understand? Nevertheless amazing story!!
@@mateuszkorzycki5468 Can't speak to the quicksand thing, but hikers die in flash floods around here fairly often, mostly when they're hiking in slot canyons when there's rain (but like the video says, the rain can be 40 miles away and the floods can still get you). It's just very different terrain, which means water moves very differently on it.
You can not sink in quick sand past your waist. Still would not be nice to get stuck tho.
@@mateuszkorzycki5468 In these areas, the ground is hard and dry, so the water runs off. Little creeks pour into one larger creek and so on, until you get a huge flood coming down. It's the rains that are far away that can cause the big problems. It doesn't seem like there are too many videos of flash floods happening when it's raining in your area.
Thanks, really cool video! We almost camped in a Arroyo in AZ one night, went to higher ground... wouldn't youknow a huge rainstorm came that night and I would not be typing this now if we did.
Way to go for running ahead and getting that shot! Quality at it's finest!
Great footage, but stay safe though! I can see why they say never to camp in a wash!
Thanks!
rankinstudio dude, *zoom*. Made so you don't need to stand inches from death. Mis time your exit and it sweeps your feet out and...you're in a heap of trouble. I'm sure I don't need to tell you this, I imagine it's a great rush for you. Just...good god don't cut it so close. At your luckiest you'd be at least hurt quite a bit if it caught you.
Edit: that being said, I'm now on your channel binge watching while getting sweaty feet and under arms. 👍🏼👍🏼
I can only imagine what would happen if someone camped in a dry gulch and some time in the middle of the night a flash flood took them out while they were sleeping. I'm sure it's happened before to inexperienced campers. With all that heavy debris in the leading edges you'd be pummelled to death in a matter of seconds. It's always crazy seeing video of flash floods like this.
I bet people have died camping in those before. Sadly
My old co-worker in Zion np lived in the near town of Rockville. Sadly his mom was killed in a flash flood and her body was swept away and they found her body about 35 miles way as the crow flies from where she was swept away. Floods are no joke.
Thanks, David, for making these videos. Hope you all didn't get hurt. But glad you all took your time and energy. Without you, I'd never see a debris flow or an explanation of how it's created. Great viewing. Thanks again!
Reminds me of the flash floods back home in the Mojave desert 29 Palms Ca. Seen what happens when a bus gets hit by one of these. Luckily the passengers were rescued before anyone was injured or worse. The bus eventually ended up 5 miles downstream all torn up.
i've been learning about debris flow in geology class, but it's something else to see it move! thank you for sharing and be careful!
it's amazing how you can see how a turbidite forms: the leading edge of this flow is continually pushing new material under it, and if this got preserved in the geologic record, you could tell what happened because of how the debris is mixed up as opposed to being deposited in nice even layers
Geology is fun stuff.
Amazing! How deep is the debris flow? I wonder if you could survive if you get caught into it?
Man this is pretty satisfying. I don't know why but I like to think about all that dirt and debris later being cycled out and cleaned by the water.
Water: Hold my branches
Almost lost my car in the southern part of Canyonlands National Park in July of 2003 from a flash flood that washed out the road. Luckily we were fine and were able to cook and eat out dinner under a waterfall that night. It was quite the day.
Thanks for posting. I've read about flash floods, but I never knew what they were really like.
1:00 When I was working in Death Valley (over the winter) I never saw a flash flood, but I had heard about them. I always figured that I would have some time (not long, maybe just a few seconds) to wade through the water before it became to deep, but there is no way you could survive being hit with that mess.
Scare as hell.
All it take is to fall down, no place to run, AND YOUR HISTORY !
I honestly appreciate the perspective you gave us in this video, but man, but it rains harder than the forecast projects and you’re standing in that wash, it can overflow ahead of you and hook around you before you even know it. That’s a horrific way to die if you get caught by one.
That is one evil flood! And I was freaked out about that boulder flipping through the water like it was weightless. Amazing video. Keep up the good work!
This is what i call................ live *STREAMING*
Dying hahaha
How funny ! ❤
Props for creativity and originality, groans for still being an upper tier dad joke.
lol appreciate him running to get a second shot from ahead of the front mud flood
Just found your channel. This was one of the best explanations, and accompanying videos, of flash floods. You guys have some serious brass gonads to be sooooo close to these, and I mean dangerously close. Whew! 😲 I have to profoundly say thank you!
This type of shit fascinates me.
Maybe I should move to Utah and become a Mormon... And watch floods.
+SuperWeaves Yeah, it's not so bad.
+rankinstudio
This may sound dangerous... but if you ever want to record someone awaiting a flash flood in a small kayak/canoe, I'm your guy. This would be an awesome sport!
SuperWeaves Take your 12 wives out for a good flooding event, fun for the entire family! Tell the wives, if Mother nature can flow this much when wet, so can all 12 of you! ;)
SuperWeaves you don't need to become a Mormon and I live in Utah, and this is far down south from where I live which is north of Salt Lake City is where I live
Everywhere at Once I wondered where the guy went that was on sister wives. Evidently your everywhere at once 🤣😂
You need to do a video tutorial showing how to run without your camera bobbing up and down. It's amazing how steady you kept your camera.
Just.....damn! That is spectacular...and dangerous. Thanks for sharing!!! When travelling in the desert, never walk on the lowest part of a valley!! When it all drys out with the desert heat someone's going to have plenty of kindling!
This is a powerful example of how dangerous downstream swimming holes can be when rain is happening upstream. Thanks for sharing this!
Man, if you were in a tight canyon you'd be screwed for sure.
Thanks for the great shots! 👍
It almost looks alive!
this is a great footage, man.
not the first time I'm watching this video. but I just love it, so I keep coming back to get some more :)
thanks for the great work.
love your enthusiasm around this. it's great!
Erez Aviram Thanks!
Same for me!
+Erez Aviram Ditto
Great video! Thank you. Easy to see why there are so many warnings to watch out for flash floods. This is a fairly wide wash, I can only imagine what one is like in Zion NP and elsewhere in Southern Utah. I’ve visited many of the parks, thankfully never in these conditions.
The streams and rivers in the desert southwest of the USA, and I presume deserts elsewhere around the world are dry or nearly dry most of the time but when there's heavy rain we get these incredible flash floods. A few years ago a really bad flash flood killed 21 people in single day, probably only a few hours: 13 in the polygamous community of Hilldale Utah, 7 in Zion National Park, and another man driving his truck on the border with Arizona. Every few years a significant loss of life happens, usually in the slot canyons.
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Nature is no joke! Great footage. Thanks!😊👍
Thanks very much for sharing, unfortunately I can only one thumb up!
It's amazing to watch how the nature regenerates, water coming from the sky, down to the earth, back again to the sky!
1:16 In a 'real' movie, someone sprains their ankle in this situation.
And in previous scenes, if they have been unpleasant to animals, or been rude to their wife...they will get swept away to die. But only if a old man, a bad boss. And white.
or just stand there staring at it.
Crawls backwards instead of getting up and running.
The Only reason i put like is because you hauled ass to give us a good shot. Good work brother
@@Engineer9736 that is true but anyone who does something to get adrenaline knows that at any point it could cost you your life. I simply appreciate the effort to get the shot and strongly feel that while it its dangerous it is still their own choice to go out and get these shots
Man... it looked like you were going to get surrounded, then you stepped back onto that higher ground. Cool video.
At 4:11 when he is running alongside the flood (a drone would be useful), you can see how the top of the flow has less resistance than the bottom of the flow by the branches rolling off the front.
Dude, the footage is incredible!
Have you ever considered getting a gimbal stabilizer for your cameras? They even make them for phones as well.
Wow this is frightening. Imagine being caught up in it. Stay safe guys x
Great job man! As someone who spends a LOT of time on rivers fly fishing I occasionally wonder what it would be like if a dam upstream suddenly released additional water or rainfall caused the river to rise suddenly while wading. I've experienced it about 4 times on the Umpqua in Oregon but I was in my driftboat each time and it was pretty gradual. Not sudden like this.
It is so amazing.. The power of it. But why are you risking your well-being.....
Because if no one took risks in life, you wouldn't get cool footage like this.
@@DanielDeLoach And one mistake and you'd get even cooler footage from inside the debris flow. My father almost died once in just this kind of flash flood. Seriously, the only safe place in a flash flood is high ground, and not standing the riverbed.
Excellent...very informative. Now I understand what a ‘wash ‘ is. I’ve walked a bit through Death Valley and up in Utah and Wyoming . The sun helps camouflage this drained and pushed rubble by drying and bleaching it giving it an illusion that it belongs there....but it caught my eye. Great country and beautiful.
great video thanks for filming it a wonder of nature's strength
Awesome video.
my grandfather always warned us about playing in 'dry' creek beds. he always said "where water once was, it shall return". one day he told everyone to get out of a creek bed. i heard about a 4 foot wall of water that consumed where kids were playing not more than 10 minutes later. there is water in that creek to this day.
you were lucky you weren't washed away. not worth risking your life to get a shot sometime
you're unlucky that you have no balls
Well this man does this as a hobby and what he said^^^
electron being lmfao. "balls" there is a difference between daring and stupidity.
electron being he's dead swept away
There's a fine line between clever and stupid. ~Spinal-Tap
TH-cam:let’s recommend a group of people fascinate the flood!
Me:HELLLLLL YEEEEEAH!!!!!
Almost lava like… (Been watching the lava flows in Island.). Is the lead ‘soup of debris’ watery or dry, or somewhere in between?
Nicely done :) I like to watch videos like this since it gives me a chance to know what to look out for if I was hiking in a location similar to this. As my dad puts it: Don't hike in a riverbed if its cloudy or if there is rain in the distance.
Wow. Makes my heart start racing. My doctor would be pissed if he knew I was watching your vids. I actual said," Dude, get outta there" at one point.
It's crazy how powerful a flash flood can be
WOW the running shot with the front of the debris was STUNNING!!! It was like you were running with a wild animal. Beautiful!! 4:11
That was amazing! Thanks for sharing- from Fiji !!
Is that woman running in her flip flops???
I wasn’t looking at her feet while she was running. 😋
@Mike Veis Considering they've been doing it for 15 years, it's a pretty piss poor suicide attempt. Surely there's a more reliable way to top yourself than waiting for it to rain in the next county then driving out into the desert and running from some muddy sticks in inappropriate footware.
im glad im from florida where all we wear are flipflops
Where were you in proximity to the flood when you videoed this? How did you manage to survive in spite of being right on top of it?
No one's talking about how awesome that shot of the front was with you running beside it? Shame... that was a great shot man.
Suddenly sticks. Where did they come from? Are there more sticks with every rain or are all gone now?
These floods come from a long distance away generated where there are pine forests ect. The smaller ones typically have less debris. The larger ones have a lot of debris they pick up left by the previous floods. It's a constant cycle of erosion. Dry season gathers debris, floods wash it down during the monsoon season, repeat.
Being on a houseboat on Lake Powell when the aftermath of hurricane Andrew passed by was freaking insane.
How long had it been since the last flood? I'm curious how long it took for all that stuff to build up in the river bed.
Wow!!! Great prediction. Nice coverage. The land is beautiful
This is how things get fossilized. An animal gets swept downstream in a flood and encased in mud floes
Mud is a good preservative of remains.
Is that footage (from about 3:05 on) from all three of you, or just what you shot? It has the look of "same time, different perspective". Also, the coolest part was running while keeping pace with the leading edge of the debris flow. I guess the take-home lesson from that is that while you might be able to run faster than the flood moves, the flood isn't going to need to stop and rest. Thanks for sharing!
Where does all this water end up? Does it get used for irrigation or ?
This is terrifying. I think of the woman who died in a flash flood in Bryce Canyon the weekend of August 25, 2023. She was a friend of mine. Seeing this makes me so much sadder, especially knowing what an experienced hiker she was. I don't know the exact circumstances of what happened, but this gives me plenty to think about. :***(
Go Utes, Jeanne.
Just read up in this. Seems like she was an amazing woman. Sorry for your loss. Flash Floods are certainly dangerous, especially in narrow canyons. Part of the reason I document them is to educate people.
Wow that debris is crazy!