Flash Flood near Glen Canyon / Lake Powell

This flash flood originated from a thunderstorm in Capitol Reef National Park on July 6th 2013.

[@happyvalleyjen1118]

Now that was an awesome video on a flash flood captured correctly. Props! You zoomed in, out, showed the person, and a vehicle. You gave us depth and perception on just how big that flash flood was on a grand scale. Most youtubers are stuck in shock and all to even do that. AWESOME and JOB WELL DONE!

[@raquelgarcia3703]

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[@KKnits]

First half so well done, but once you got moving ........ but awesome first footage! And you gave perspective too. Thanks for sharing!

[@rankinstudio]

Nice capture! 2013 has been a great monsoon season so far.

[@drferry]

That crunching sound is you walking on all the little black tufts of cryptobiotic soil. It takes years for the soil to repair itself.

[@kimberlypetrossi6607]

What is on that plaque attached to the front of that huge rock?

[@sashakartus3435]

If you will see something like this, run !! You never know how much water is coming !!!

[@charlesbeetham2915]

Do you know how much water is in Lake Powell? You couldn't begin to run fast enough if the dam collapsed. Your SUV wouldn't drive fast enough for you to escape, all you would have time enough to do is bend over and kiss your sweet ass goodbye.

[@kevinboothe9991]

This was in a dry riverbed above the lake, probably just past Hanksville, you can tell because of the road that runs along the riverbed, there aren't any roads that run along the river below the dam until you get way down almost to Lake Mead

[@williammerkel1410]

But if you went to the Prometheus School of running away from things you are dead.

[@chrisemerson7743]

Damn that’s scary as hell

[@charlottenasise5105]

In the dry season we need to clean out this canyon so it can run free!

[@MonthlyFails]

Hello crayzeebaby, is it possible to contact you regarding this video (i.e. via email)? We would be interested to discuss a license to use this video if this is generally possible to discuss? :) Cheers, Felix

[@painting2020]

I love you in the name of Jesus

[@davidyoung5114]

Two things that I noticed; the boulder in the wash had to be an 'erratic' moved there by a glacier about 14,000 years ago, and the cut into the bank beside the boulder indicated that not too long previously there had been a torrent of flood water through there much greater than the one recorded at that time.

[@kevinboothe9991]

That boulder you're talking about could have come off the cliff face above the river during some seismic activity years ago

[@mtrotter325]

Wouldn't it be wonderful to use that water on fires in draught areas?

[@papajon62]

Rolling death there. Scary

[@gtbproductions1]

Just think how much water has already soaked into the ground by the time the head waters go by!

[@kevinboothe9991]

Not much, the water runs so fast that it doesn't really have time to soak in. The runoff in that video probably started miles away, out in the desert and it will run like that for a good hour at least, the only water that will soak in is what's left in pools. You could go out into the riverbed after the water quits running and dig down a foot or so and it would be dry.

[@williammerkel1410]

This is pretty much the exact opposite of where I live, the deposits from glacial Lake Agassiz in eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota, dozens of feet of nothing but a pretty much unique mollisol-vertisol hybrid soil, the drier it gets the greater the rate of infiltration during a heavy rain, during times of particularly bad drought I have seen 15 minute 2 and 1/2 inch downpours disappear into the ground with absolutely no runoff, but cracks in the ground that are over an inch wide and 8 feet deep will do that.

[@gtbproductions1]

@@kevinboothe9991 So all that water hitting a dry sponge doesn't soak in? This is why all the debris is piled up in front. The water at the front of the line keeps getting absorbed, thus, the debris keep piling up

[@cosmosabinodossantos3977]

Maravilhoso

[@ArleneAdkinsZell]

WOW

[@zahariaee]

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[@selvamartaperalta8321]

AAAAHHHHHHH !!!!!!

[@iguanaamphibioustruck7352]

Just a small indication of what was happening 10, 000 years ago

[@josephastier7421]

cryptobiotic something something.

[@stevethompson6371]

And lake powell gets filled with more silt. Slowly erasing capacity.

[@majorpayne8373]

Flooding that canyon was a monumental crime.

[@user-og9ue3nq4w]

🇸🇦👍🌹

[@frankanddanasnyder3272]

Got seasick from all the camera jiggle..

[@DavidWoods-rk8st]

What don't you listen to weather forecast don't you listen to radio are you ad crazy as everyone else

[@douglaslindsey5246]

wasnt a flash flood wow people. simple rain runoff. It never left the normal river channel.

[@currentbatches6205]

Yeah, to be a "flood", it should "flood". You wouldn't want to be in front of that mess, but it's a heavy runoff.

[@Sunshine-nr6qe]

Relax. In the desert it is called a flash flood.

[@KayentaRojo]

That isn’t a river channel, that is a wash. They are dry all times of the year, unless there is a flash flood. That’s why you see plants growing in it, there isn’t supposed to be water there.