To ALL our Loyal Commenters: I am a commenter, too; but I have to say, after 10+ years on TH-cam, that Rankin Studios puts out the highest-quality, best shot videos of flash floods I have seen in my time here. He doesn't put out any fluff, just describes what we are about to see, then gets OUT OF THE WAY of the actual video! We enjoy it for its simplicity, the craftsmanship of the shot angles, the LINGERING of a specific scene until complete (rather than jumping from one item to another!!), and being patient enough for the event to run its course. This is something that ALL video up-loaders should (IMO) take note of. We are here to click on videos, to learn from them, enjoy them, and not get caught up in the mistakes (i.e., mistakes in craftsmanship, quality of the film upon release, etc. ) of the finished product. For those of us who are narrow-minded, judgmental, or just plain idiots, there is a solution -- go to the next video! We don't need your feces on ANY web video comment page! It's not classy, and it shows your level of "sincerity" of thought, if any thinking exists! For the rest of us, please take a page from Rankin Studios -- learn -- practice the craft -- and be exalted on the TH-cam Forum!! Peace
@@estelleschneider9033 IDK for sure, but common sense tells me that Rankin Watches the weather. He already knows when the flood bottoms will be filled, and where they are. When he goes out, he LISTENS for the roar of the water (Not hard to hear in desert country!). He has great experience in filming floods; he knows what mistakes he has made, and he knows what location is best for his desired shots. Obviously, there's a lot more to it that I don't know. Suffice it to say the guy is a MASTER at what he does.
@@msruag While I appreciate your observation, let's not over-think the methods. Sometimes the images will describe themselves. Watching and appreciating that segment may very well let you know all that you need to know.
Your videos are AWESOME, in the true sense of the word. Vacationed in Nevada countless times & was aware of the flash flood warnings, but never imagined the floods coming down the washes as black walls of debris. Thanks for documenting it all.
Some spectacular videos! It's mesmerising watching the wave of debris push forward. I saw a stick once in a river here in England wreaking havoc as it flowed downstream. Absolute carnage it was lol.
Great - no awesome video with superb shots! Angles were great, like the viewer was about to be swept up into the flood! Thanks for leaving the sounds natural, made it so much more impressive than music!! You are a video artist! 🤗
I filmed one on July 18th. I had to intercept a few hikers about 10 minutes before the flood came down and inform them that hiking in the wash was a bad idea that day. On the up side, these folks from Holland got a show that day they wont soon forget :)
Great video! Absolutely amazing and creepy and the same time! Just the sound of the debris flow is enough to give you the chills! Great shots of it initially coming right towards you down dry ground. I can't imagine seeing something like that coming towards me!
Amazing shots. Proving how anyone who takes Mother Nature for granted, and laughs at feeling superior, and smarter...really have no idea what they are talking about. Thanks for allowing us to see it.
Just a question..where does all that debris finally end up, for a desert area, there seems to be a lot of large logs, that could be used for firewood, if collected and stacked someplace ......
It's cool to see a dramatic, natural event that is pretty much unaltered by man-made structures. With the exception of the 1 tire, this is pretty much something you could have witnessed 100,000 years ago.
i watch your videos frequently, but i would like to see where all this debris finally ends up. does it flow into a river and keep going? does it get deposited in some gigantic debris pile at the end of the wash???? thanks
ah, 'rare' to me probably means something different than to you. i'm a geologist; for my master's i studied the flood deposits along kitchen corral/buckskin wash. the floodplain you were filming from has been deposited by repeated mid-size floods since ~1940, and there have been a few dozen giant floods over the past 2000 years that totally overwhelmed the water-handling capacity of the slot canyon downstream (and left giant stacks of sediment along the canyon walls).
Question for any volcanologist types out there. Isn't this essentially what a lahar mudflow secondary effect from an eruption would look like? Lahars are basically rivers of mud created by snow melted by lava and they're filled with trees and rocks and other debris. They have the consistency of cement. Can be just as dangerous as a lava flow.
Good Job. So VERY cool. It is so awesome to see the debris head going over the dry sand. It is like Lava or something. Very mesmerizing. Oh, the blob...
awesome video! any idea what the white object is that pops at about 2:32? at first I thought it wan an old toilet...from the way it bobs up it looks like it was under the streambed and floated out as the sand and soils was eroded away.
The size of the trees in those debris flows is astounding. Also, the colour of the flow is strangely dark considering the surroundings. I have been wondering about foreign objects you might see in the flows, there is an odd shaped thing at 2:18, though it might be the upper of a tree, and then the tyre not long after, which is just punished when it eventually emerges. Amazing. Some of those branches are scraping and overlapping the edges, which is a worry, stay safe David.
Right on, I have a degree in geology as well. I understand geologic time well, but relative to our lifespans those floods are rare ;) The odds of me filming one are slim to none. Also, the flood I filmed was a good size flood for that basin, easily could kill someone. It would be cool to see one big enough to overwhelm the slot below for sure.
Yes, I was impressed by that also. There were some rather large cottonwood limbs in this flood. The thing at 2:18 looks like part of a tree base, where the roots start. Thanks, I'll stay safe :)
ah, my old stomping grounds...i spent a lot of time there hoping to see one of these come through. still a baby by buckskin standards, but cool to see nonetheless. thanks for sharing!
rankinstudio one thing I'm curious about; if it's a natural occurrence, why are there always so many sticks and dead trees? You'd think they'd be collected at the sides and the end...but so many always with the flow!? It's just curious the shear amount that manage to gather in its path.
i imagine the winds of the monsoon would throw branches and trees and debris all over the place, to then be picked up by the water and the cycle continues...
@@uncle1886 While these events are not uncommon, they happen in different places so that the same location may not see a flash flood for a couple of years so there is plenty of time for an accumulation of sticks, branches, etc for the flood to pick up. It is pretty awesome to see all that debris material flowing along at the head of the flood. You surely would not want to be caught up in it.
Higher up it branches out into smaller washes. While the lower channel is wide enough to mostly contain the flow, the small washes above were not. It picks up the debris there.
Been there last October. It was a harmless valley. Nothing to fear. I'm impressed how there's a real kind of a shock wave with all the debris. On your video the weather seems fine. Has there been a warning for hikers before, not to enter the gulch?
This is really shocking , living in Florida , flash floods are common , but we are so flat it just spreads evenly and with so many canals it drains just as fast. About how far away was the actual rain fall ? Thanks
Even on a nice Sunny Day, if you're camping in a dry wash, you need to see what the weather is around the surrounding area. If there is a storm in the distance or on a mountain. Get away from any dry wash. In fact...just don't camp there.
OK. I am totally creeped out. I have experienced plenty of flash floods in southern Arizona, but they don't form their own damn and sneak up on you. Ours , you get a trickle of water, quickly escalating into a full blown flood. But if you have any sense you will not get surprised by them. This is just insane. Honestly, I might have nightmares tonight. Great video.
To ALL our Loyal Commenters: I am a commenter, too; but I have to say, after 10+ years on TH-cam, that Rankin Studios puts out the highest-quality, best shot videos of flash floods I have seen in my time here.
He doesn't put out any fluff, just describes what we are about to see, then gets OUT OF THE WAY of the actual video! We enjoy it for its simplicity, the craftsmanship of the shot angles, the LINGERING of a specific scene until complete (rather than jumping from one item to another!!), and being patient enough for the event to run its course. This is something that ALL video up-loaders should (IMO) take note of. We are here to click on videos, to learn from them, enjoy them, and not get caught up in the mistakes (i.e., mistakes in craftsmanship, quality of the film upon release, etc. ) of the finished product.
For those of us who are narrow-minded, judgmental, or just plain idiots, there is a solution -- go to the next video! We don't need your feces on ANY web video comment page! It's not classy, and it shows your level of "sincerity" of thought, if any thinking exists!
For the rest of us, please take a page from Rankin Studios -- learn -- practice the craft -- and be exalted on the TH-cam Forum!!
Peace
@david5372 Great observations. I’ll bet the majority of us here appreciate this work, for exactly the reasons you mentioned.
I would like to know how those filming KNOW this deluge of water is coming at the specific time to the WASH???
@@estelleschneider9033 IDK for sure, but common sense tells me that Rankin Watches the weather. He already knows when the flood bottoms will be filled, and where they are. When he goes out, he LISTENS for the roar of the water (Not hard to hear in desert country!). He has great experience in filming floods; he knows what mistakes he has made, and he knows what location is best for his desired shots.
Obviously, there's a lot more to it that I don't know. Suffice it to say the guy is a MASTER at what he does.
@@estelleschneider9033 he either calculates it or just records until the flood comes and cut the extra stuff out.
@@msruag While I appreciate your observation, let's not over-think the methods. Sometimes the images will describe themselves. Watching and appreciating that segment may very well let you know all that you need to know.
Well done David Rankin. Your work allows the viewer to appreciate the power of nature without silly music, screaming, talk, etc.
Your videos are AWESOME, in the true sense of the word. Vacationed in Nevada countless times & was aware of the flash flood warnings, but never imagined the floods coming down the washes as black walls of debris. Thanks for documenting it all.
I’m fascinated by your videos. Thank you for getting us all out there to see such a sight! My favorite is the debris wall... stay safe!
Thank you for not adding music... I love the sound .. thank you again
I don't like to have music on this stuff. Trying to capture the raw natrual expereince. Thanks!
rankinstudio Great.. thanks for the amazing videos...
the sound is rather soothing
David Lemon Ditto on the actual sound of nature instead of some dumb music.
Vic Lemon I just watched it again.. Nature at work and the sound of the flood is so amazing
I love the loud chaotic sound of a flash flood. My favorites are the ones with bouncing boulders. Rock on!
If this video was 1 hour long I would watch from the beginning to the end. Great video thnx for sharing.
Directors cut 😜
Some spectacular videos! It's mesmerising watching the wave of debris push forward. I saw a stick once in a river here in England wreaking havoc as it flowed downstream. Absolute carnage it was lol.
Nice, high quality.. great close up views and very little talking. Perfect!
Thanks!
Great - no awesome video with superb shots! Angles were great, like the viewer was about to be swept up into the flood! Thanks for leaving the sounds natural, made it so much more impressive than music!! You are a video artist! 🤗
Excellent set of views of the debris flow of a flash flood.
And yet, there's a bolder at the 2:00 mark that hints at far greater floods...
Just great video. You should win an award for how this is filmed.
4/7/22 That was SO good I had to watch it again! Great filming!
Can you show the end where the debris pils up once in a while please?
Thank you very much for posting this!
This is quite remarkable...
Welcome
You have got to explain how you know to be there at just the right time seeing the very beginning of the flood. Amazing footage.
I filmed one on July 18th. I had to intercept a few hikers about 10 minutes before the flood came down and inform them that hiking in the wash was a bad idea that day. On the up side, these folks from Holland got a show that day they wont soon forget :)
Great video! Absolutely amazing and creepy and the same time! Just the sound of the debris flow is enough to give you the chills! Great shots of it initially coming right towards you down dry ground. I can't imagine seeing something like that coming towards me!
Thanks! - They have fascinated me for years.
You have the best videos of all. They give me great nightmares !
This is incredibly cool. I love being in awe of such enormous power.
Really well filmed! Not a lot of talking or music. Awesome!!!
Amazing shots. Proving how anyone who takes Mother Nature for granted, and laughs at feeling superior, and smarter...really have no idea what they are talking about. Thanks for allowing us to see it.
Just a question..where does all that debris finally end up, for a desert area, there seems to be a lot of large logs, that could be used for firewood, if collected and stacked someplace ......
Nice setup to catch the flow. Happy it wasn't high taking your cameras :). Same compliment on no music with thank you very much.
where does the debris end up downstream??? is there a mountain of stuff at the terminous?
It's cool to see a dramatic, natural event that is pretty much unaltered by man-made structures. With the exception of the 1 tire, this is pretty much something you could have witnessed 100,000 years ago.
Is this Utah? We hiked Buckskin years ago and I always wondered how afraid I should be of a flash flood... nice, thanks.
It is in Utah. Same place just further up before it becomes a slot canyon.
Yet another amazing video of the power of water. Glad you were able to stop those hikers.
where does all the debris end up?
Really appreciate how you hold the camera.
i watch your videos frequently, but i would like to see where all this debris finally ends up. does it flow into a river and keep going? does it get deposited in some gigantic debris pile at the end of the wash????
thanks
Indeed! Perhaps you got another shot at it tonight? I see that KCW/buckskin is currently under another FF warning...lots of action this year!
Beautifully filmed!
Wow man your vids are insane, water scares the hell out of me!! So much power
Thanks!
GREAT footage, I applaud you!
Thanks!
ah, 'rare' to me probably means something different than to you. i'm a geologist; for my master's i studied the flood deposits along kitchen corral/buckskin wash. the floodplain you were filming from has been deposited by repeated mid-size floods since ~1940, and there have been a few dozen giant floods over the past 2000 years that totally overwhelmed the water-handling capacity of the slot canyon downstream (and left giant stacks of sediment along the canyon walls).
WOW, awesome video. Its amazing what mother nature can do. Thank you for posting.
Thanks!
Where does all the trash end up ?
Excelente vídeo ,donde es esto ?
Question for any volcanologist types out there. Isn't this essentially what a lahar mudflow secondary effect from an eruption would look like? Lahars are basically rivers of mud created by snow melted by lava and they're filled with trees and rocks and other debris. They have the consistency of cement. Can be just as dangerous as a lava flow.
Yes, just scaled up a lot larger than this.
how do you know where these things are going to be? Through prior experience? These are great videos by the way
Good Job. So VERY cool. It is so awesome to see the debris head going over the dry sand. It is like Lava or something. Very mesmerizing. Oh, the blob...
Thanks! Nothing like seeing it in person.
Excellent video, why does this happen though? What causes this specific one?
rain in the high mountains?
mcleofort fadallan
Ok cool. Don't know the area at all, so was wondering what causes this to be such a sudden flood
Very heavy rain up the basin about 10 miles.
rankinstudio
How are you able to time how long it will take between the storm 10 miles away, and the water reaching the point you are at?
i have a question...WHERE does all that wood and other debrie come from...so much !
awesome video!
any idea what the white object is that pops at about 2:32? at first I thought it wan an old toilet...from the way it bobs up it looks like it was under the streambed and floated out as the sand and soils was eroded away.
Great vid where does it all come from ?
From storms as far as 40 miles away
Thank you for these amazing videos.
The size of the trees in those debris flows is astounding. Also, the colour of the flow is strangely dark considering the surroundings. I have been wondering about foreign objects you might see in the flows, there is an odd shaped thing at 2:18, though it might be the upper of a tree, and then the tyre not long after, which is just punished when it eventually emerges. Amazing. Some of those branches are scraping and overlapping the edges, which is a worry, stay safe David.
Right on, I have a degree in geology as well. I understand geologic time well, but relative to our lifespans those floods are rare ;) The odds of me filming one are slim to none. Also, the flood I filmed was a good size flood for that basin, easily could kill someone. It would be cool to see one big enough to overwhelm the slot below for sure.
Yes, I was impressed by that also. There were some rather large cottonwood limbs in this flood. The thing at 2:18 looks like part of a tree base, where the roots start. Thanks, I'll stay safe :)
ah, my old stomping grounds...i spent a lot of time there hoping to see one of these come through. still a baby by buckskin standards, but cool to see nonetheless. thanks for sharing!
How far away was the rain storm that created this debris flow?
How do you filter out the debri from that water? Where does that water flow into?
Qu'elle chance d'avoir pu filmer ça !
I'm guessing that discolored water is from a recent forest fire?
is this a regular thing? great vid also thanks for the no music
uncle albert It happens all over the southwest every monsoon season :)
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rankinstudio one thing I'm curious about; if it's a natural occurrence, why are there always so many sticks and dead trees? You'd think they'd be collected at the sides and the end...but so many always with the flow!? It's just curious the shear amount that manage to gather in its path.
i imagine the winds of the monsoon would throw branches and trees and debris all over the place, to then be picked up by the water and the cycle continues...
@@uncle1886 While these events are not uncommon, they happen in different places so that the same location may not see a flash flood for a couple of years so there is plenty of time for an accumulation of sticks, branches, etc for the flood to pick up. It is pretty awesome to see all that debris material flowing along at the head of the flood. You surely would not want to be caught up in it.
Buckskin Gulch is a classic site for flood stratigraphy studies in the SW.
i hope there wasn't anybody hiking further down...i've been in that creek, it flows a long way before entering anything like a slot canyon.
It took about 3 hours from where I started filming to when it enters the longest slot canyon in the world.
th-cam.com/video/pLa6JRgouaU/w-d-xo.html
if the gulch was clear of debris before the deluge, from where is it acquiring the debris upstream?
Higher up it branches out into smaller washes. While the lower channel is wide enough to mostly contain the flow, the small washes above were not. It picks up the debris there.
@ Wonderful. Thank you.
Awesome video !! How long do you usually have to wait around before the flood arrives ?
Hours.
Where does the wash lead to?
It goes into the longest slot canyon in the world. Bunskin Gulch
th-cam.com/video/pLa6JRgouaU/w-d-xo.html
@@rankinstudio and then to Paria Canyon and then the Grand Canyon.
Is debris fell into sea? What is use of debris wood
and that's all from storms miles away, right? Fascinatjng!
I love videos like this.
thank you, i have always wondered what a flash flood looks like. living in Texas i get to see a lot of the aftermath.
So what's the plan, shoot as far up as you can go, drive real fast to the next spot, film, drive real fast to the next spot, film, etc?
Yup :)
alway has to be a tire in there
Great videos, well shot, really impressive.
How could someone shoot this?The waters were coming toward the camera?
Carefully :)
That's a lot of debris! Cool video...
Increíble avalanchas de lodo, muy buen video 👍
Spot the random tyre lol
Awesome shots dude
Thanks!
how often do flash floods happen
where the water come from?
At times, the flood resembles cookies 'n' cream ice cream, with a dusting of crushed Oreos on top.
With a tire lol
Cement
Been there last October. It was a harmless valley. Nothing to fear. I'm impressed how there's a real kind of a shock wave with all the debris.
On your video the weather seems fine. Has there been a warning for hikers before, not to enter the gulch?
This is really shocking , living in Florida , flash floods are common , but we are so flat it just spreads evenly and with so many canals it drains just as fast.
About how far away was the actual rain fall ?
Thanks
And kids this is why you don't camp in a dry creek bed. This comes through while you're in your tent fast asleep you will definitely get a splinter.
I knew a couplé who got stuk in a stream Between cars.
Then came the came the flash floods.
The wife drowend in the rotation car. RIP
where does all the debris end up
Did I just see a discarded tire @ 2:33?
Either way, I certainly wouldn't want to
be caught in that channel with this
much debris flowing down at me.
is this safe for water rafting?wew
where di all the water come from?
greetings
Large thunderstorms miles away :)
Nice bit of filming ,so far , GOOD.
This is hardly a baby by any standards. It was carrying full size tree trunks like toys. Very rarely do they get larger than this in this wash.
Even on a nice Sunny Day, if you're camping in a dry wash, you need to see what the weather is around the surrounding area. If there is a storm in the distance or on a mountain. Get away from any dry wash. In fact...just don't camp there.
How did you know it was coming?
Careful planning. :)
'Nuther good job of filming, David!
People can never get over the fact that an arroyo can fill in seconds with a blue sky where you are.
Mike Fifer
Las Cruces New Mexico
Great video, how do you know when there is going to be a flood? I liver in a place so flat you can watch your dog run away from home for 4 days.
I think that he watches the weather report and he knows the area. He does his homework, and it shows with his videos. All of his videos are top notch.
Watch your dog for 4 days!!!!!! man that is flat!
I agree Rat Builder! I have seen more vids and that is what they do. Watch the weather in the mountains and then its all timing.
OK. I am totally creeped out. I have experienced plenty of flash floods in southern Arizona, but they don't form their own damn and sneak up on you. Ours , you get a trickle of water, quickly escalating into a full blown flood. But if you have any sense you will not get surprised by them. This is just insane. Honestly, I might have nightmares tonight. Great video.
If anybody had been in the Gultch for this one that would have been it. Prob 30 feet high through the slot. Then flushed down the Paria river.
Thankyou so much for your answer.
what is this?
I have never seen anything like this before. Unbelievable!
How did u know the flood was coming
Where the hell is Buckskin Wash ??/ What state ????
Utah
blessing from nicaragua..!!! NICE VIDEO..!!!
Good video, it is amazing where all the bits of wood come from. Best of all NO SHITTY MUSIC thumbs up.
great shots!
Thank you for sharing Your videos.
Como foi possìvel alguém filmar isso?