Flooding overtakes Pipeline Fire burn scar in Flagstaff

[@Darth_Kain_]

That is why it's never a good idea to camp near a wash. Glad to see it becoming green again

[@tyson9419]

...or build in a flood plain.

[@desertfoxdesertfox8726]

Thank you for recording this video. I love seeing this when the earth heals itself and soothes it's scars. Awesome!!

[@spunn_co]

thats a creek bed .. lol

[@mauricamcginnis4063]

@@bladengutz2042 wow .You missed your calling in life . comedian . NOT...!!!!..

[@mauricamcginnis4063]

@@spunn_co oh you are sooooo clever . NOT...!!!!

[@woodhonky3890]

If a beaver ordered a dam kit and chose water as delivery method, this is what it would look like.

[@Farrell0208]

Flash floods are no joke but are a thing you have to see to understand the true force of nature they have. When you try to explain it to someone who’s never been to the desert or lived in the desert, they can’t comprehend just how dangerous they are.

[@LiLBitsDK]

people are so clueless since they are only used to the concrete jungle

[@miguelcastaneda7257]

Yea I remember Tucson mom was just learning to drive it would just pour all could see was white..then stop n sun was out....some storm drains there are large enough for car to go down but it narrows down never fail out of towner would go down n get stuck

[@OldschoolRed]

They don't just happen in the desert either.

[@diabeticstrength6564]

Its amazing watching how the earth heals. It would be cool if they did a few year timelapse on your scar

[@janicegipson4691]

Us kids were allowed to take our own desert hikes as we got past 10 yrs or so, but with years of strict warnings about hiking in the washes because flash floods came from thunderstorms up in the mountains miles away we never saw. It was cooler & easier going though, so yeah i did trot along in the wash. Until I heard a noise sounding like an old truck coming & climbed the bank to look ahead. Just in time. That flood looked only a foot tall but was tumbling rocks downstream bigger than I was. The vanguard wasn’t loud, it was like boiling hissing sand. Could’ve skinned my feet or worse! So - don’t walk in the washes, no matter how hot & dry the day 👍🏼

[@k.s.333]

I love watching this kind of stuff.

[@lawrencegolba2244]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million. This kind of natural occurance has been going on for a lonnnng time. Technology has enabled all of us to see it without actually being there. Awesome video! Thanks for sharing.

[@colineaston6305]

Yes nature always adjust itself ,

[@ricruso59]

Powerful!!! Man we need more RAIN!!!

[@marschlosser4540]

Totally awesome! We need that in the upper San Pedro!

[@willsteuer1621]

This is the worst drought in over 200 years. It just never ends.

[@ianwilkinson5069]

Only bc theres ten times more ppl using the water willy nilly and the aquafers are all empty and drained for the first time in history.

[@sw8741]

Does that include the 200+ yr droughts in the past?

[@justlooking4771]

Gawd bless, flash floods are an un-appreciated force of nature in the desert. Stay safe. 🙏

[@mattmcgovern230]

Awesome video. Flagstaff is an amazing place...so miss it.

[@adavies1752]

My love to all in Flagstaff for giving me and two friends a great welcome when we stayed there a couple of years back Hops on birch what a nice place👍❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@genehasenbuhler2594]

That is the most nitrogen rich soil- wherever it settles will be green for yrs!

[@1rexrex]

Its not like the soil can't use the nutrients.

[@petrosspetrosgali]

But it’s washing the nutrients away…into the city…

[@EdStyer]

Got news for all of you...Fire or NOT...if it rains a lot, the water will run to the lowest point.

[@fungipolo]

Amazing how all that water is suddenly released>

[@kells-v2p]

I was just thinking the same thing. Where was all this water before hand 🤔

[@mattmoschkau84]

The monsoon comes and dumps high amounts of water in small areas. The ground, mostly rock, channels the water to canals and sends it down the mountain in a flash flood. It’s even better to watch further up the basins.

[@g-man2228]

Natures way of cleaning things up! Wish it’d wash through CA like that and wash a lot of the BS out! 😁

[@SegoMan]

That would require rain for 40 days / nights

[@hoffmiermp]

The fires are doing an adequate job to purge that socialist shithole.

[@petrosspetrosgali]

What is nature cleaning here?

[@LiLBitsDK]

need a bigger flashflood to clean out all THAT d.trash

[@mickcarson8504]

So right. I always wanted to see God wash away all the sinners, drug pushers and porno industries, gangsters, kid diddlers, kidnappers, criminals, killers and so on, straight into the sea, evil people. California was once beautiful, not anymore, you can't even trust a fkn dog these days. Sin city. And they're happy about it.🙄

[@Hidden_Destinations]

Wow. Really amazing. I did not expect the leading edge to be a wall of water.

[@casedoumasr656]

Wow never seen water look that BLACK . I will NEVER park or camp in a low spot again anytime.🏆🤔

[@lorenhartley3943]

If the damaged trees were dropped to slow and partially control the flow, the damage done by the flash flooding ( errosion and outright flash flood damage mud flow etc) would to a large part reduced or eliminated. The burn scar recovery could begin unimpeded by natural events ( new grass, brush and even trees)

[@mikemoore4851]

Isn't this a common occurance during monsoon season? Yup!

[@charlesc.parker1164]

Excellent photography.

[@devilpupbear09]

Wow it's beautiful ❤️

[@dopey4765]

Keep the rain coming

[@michaelmixon2479]

How far away did it rain?

[@deborahrobinson3974]

its been two years…. has there been hydroseeding

[@donaldchristensen1301]

Lovely water.

[@richardjohnson4696]

Yep, Nature being Nature. I don't really see the big deal, but for those of you who live a life of not going and experiencing anything first hand, Yeah, I bet this is fascinating to you.

[@MareShoop]

Exactly! This has been going on for thousands of years, eons. It’s pretty normal stuff.

[@bindig1]

Flash flooding is scary yet fascinating

[@andymumaw8607]

That's God's way cleaning it up

[@community1949]

Yikes, what else can happen - first a fire than a flood.

[@brianfergus839]

Locusts?

[@elenalizabeth]

@@brianfergus839 are we trying to call forth all 4 horsemen? 😂

[@garneauweld1100]

That's how rivers are reborn in the West. This is very good footage that was very well timed. Nice job!

[@K3Flyguy]

I heard it told that this also happens the morning after a late night out drinking beer with the guys and someone gets the absolutely brilliant idea to go to Taco Bell for burritos before going home. Although, he color may vary depending on the brand of beer you were drinking. Either way it's nothing but logs, dark water and endless trips to the washroom. Even the sound is eerily quite similar with the occasional log breaking and falling into the water. Something's are just universally the same.

[@livingmultiverse5544]

Omg that's was incredible and a well needed reality wake up call for me.

[@wm3138]

Excellent, natural recovery is wonderful.

[@tracynation2820]

Incredible. 💙 T.E.N.

[@stanknowlton7043]

Almost looks like the surface of the moon.

[@kells-v2p]

Like you really know what the surface of the Moon looks like.

[@crewleaderprods]

@@kells-v2p the surface of the moon is actually lush and green, unlike the grey deathscape NASA would have you believe

[@thehotcorner3337]

Amazing they could have a camera set up like that to capture it so well.

[@spacelemur7955]

Fires denude the ground. Without vegetation and humus, flat clay particles quickly seal the topsoil leading rain to run-off instead of soaking in. This is also why clear-cutting leads to desertification in the US west. Rain, thus, doesn't help much if it doesn't soak into the soil.

[@sw8741]

LMAO......fire and "burn scars" are 100% natural. This has been happening for eons.

[@spacelemur7955]

@@sw8741 Are you one of those who cannot handle multifactorial reasoning? Try. Even "natural" fire cycles vary according to changing climatic conditions. In addition to things like El Niño, the South Atlantic Oscillation, there is now increased CO2 from the combustion of fossil fuels, and now the release of previously frozen methane in the northern and alpine tundras. There are serveral reasons you don't know this, and if I generously rule out learning disorders, it is surely a conscious choice to remain ignorant. 🙈🙉🙊

[@myobmyob2215]

Where did the flash flood originate from

[@SegoMan]

A rain cloud 😏

[@deborahrobinson3974]

This fire scar was two years old?….. Was the burn scar hydroseed prepared in two years fir possible floods…

[@SegoMan]

Of coarse not that would require critical thinking skills. The Colo I-70 / Glenwood canyon floods was caused by decades of piss poor land management policies. It started out with a pine beetle infestation, let's spray those suckers! Nope that not natural, so the forest died. Let's log that timber (solve the TP shortage & create jobs) nope that's not natural. So now we have a major tender box that catches on fire.. Put it out now!!! Uh that's not natural either but since we had tree huggers cabins burning we spent 100 of million$ fighting it. Uh you gonna re-seed that?? Nope that's not natural!! Well here comes the natural rain and the canyon roads were destroyed.. Invest in the stupidity of mankind and you will never go broke!

[@sarajanesmith3892]

I bet that was awesome in person!

[@wildbill2727]

Lived in Tucson in the late 70s. Used to explore the laberinth of drain pipes underground unknowningly taking my life in my hands as we did. Didn’t understand then what a flash flood was. I was lucky.

[@grondhero]

This can't be real. Hollywood movies always show me that water is so clear that you can see through it even hundreds of feet deep.

[@ronboerste1813]

Almost looks like somebody busted open a beaver dam🤔

[@khalilrichardson491]

It was actually surface runoff from heavy rains that fell on the Pipeline Fire burn scar, and unfortunately like all wildfire burn scars, the charred soil becomes hydrophobic due to this hydrophobic wax substance layer created by a cooling solidifying gas, generated by the burning vegetation, which makes the soil act like cement pavement, forcing water to runoff downhill, causing mudflows, flash floods, and debris flows

[@ronboerste1813]

@@khalilrichardson491 thanks for the head's up🤔👉🍻

[@maartendeen8404]

Shocking... how?

[@archstanton_live]

Spread that natural terra preta.

[@jaym8299]

Ahh missed the tree falling over...

[@thooke222]

Cool footage

[@Anth4044]

That was a lot of water so powerful 💪💪💪

[@somewhereinagalaxyfarfaraway]

Is this the down stream from the big storm in Utah??

[@shanenewton2687]

The force & speed of the flood allows free thought landscaping ...goes where it wants moving forward..

[@stick9648]

Don't worry bribem will outlaw rain and fire.

[@roberttroutman9112]

Tell everybody you're stupid without saying that you're stupid.

[@SegoMan]

@@roberttroutman9112 Broadcast the fact that your on hunters mailing list for a shiny new crack pipe..

[@rjohns25]

Mother Nature is pretty effing awesome ❤️❤️❤️

[@Stefan_Boerjesson]

Where is the Pipeline?

[@kmarshall131]

Btr than a forest fire. What's everyone trippin about

[@johndemeen5575]

Sure have dirty water out there! Thanks from.St. Paul Minnesota.

[@justadam1917]

In Australia we call that the Gully raker

[@bobshetlerxr400]

Somebody was at the right place at the right time!

[@shaungoldsmith8055]

Nature healing her self!!

[@tahm1236]

FINALLY WATER FOR THE DRY STATES THANK YOU MOTHER NATURE

[@garymills562]

Quick wheres my kayak??

[@bulldawg6259]

Nature at her best

[@blackmagic998]

At which point did the cameraman realise he was on the wrong side of the river 🤦

[@robc.5745]

There will be a lot more wood to burn after this dries up.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

Maybe if people go in and cull the wood from the area, but this is a burn scar now so the next fire won't find much to burn here.

[@pranch9986]

If you,live in the southwest you know what a wash is for, exactly this.

[@civilmetimbers5636]

That's not flooding that's a seasonal creek doing what it does NATURALLY!!

[@jay12336]

no that's flash flooding. that much water in that much time is flash flooding

[@jojobaker1764]

Nice mountain stream.. wonder how the fishing is, probably some nice brookies in there..

[@lindacarruthers3423]

Brilliant ! What great cleanup and healing of a wound . Well now , I spoke too soon , sorry . Not a good cleanup at all , chaos , disaster . Tragedy .

[@lizzoid]

What's with the back and forth?...Leave the camera still so we can see something.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

We get what we get. It's a lot better than nothing!!

[@deborahrobinson3974]

hydroseeding by helicopter..?

[@SegoMan]

one system they use (not sure if it's still active) is to put a seed in a ice sickle shaped container, fill it with water and freeze it. Then drop all of them over the burnt area.

[@deborahrobinson3974]

no ground cover..fast sprouting rye grass to take ..Fast root … sprayed en masse to blanket the burn area with fast sprouting seed…

[@glywnniswells9480]

Very fertile soil there. Imagine hiking and crossing one of those when its dry coming back and u cant cross and get home.

[@edsecce5685]

That black water is extremely fertile, I wish there was a way to reuse it

[@theshocker4626]

And the guy who started it got probation

[@spunn_co]

I don't know that looks like a Creek bed to me

[@eligebrown8998]

Nature making a new creek

[@fernandofrias6535]

This is a perfect example how Mother Nature cures itself after it burned the charcoal Left Behind purifies the water plain and simple

[@edcew8236]

So what's shocking about this, compared to any other flash flood?

[@drewbreezy5854]

If you wouldn't mind sharing that with California please

[@ubroberts5541]

These events occur naturally. Later, when it’s all gone people look and wonder- how did that happen? It’s random nature. Rich nutrients spread across the land to create something new. It takes a long time and is natural.

[@Cassy858]

Thank god for water.

[@blackhawk7r221]

Just don’t set up your tent near the wash.

[@mickcarson8504]

All that rich soil with nutrients, washed away 😥

[@BeachPeach2010]

That certainly didn't take very long!

[@speedomars]

A new grand canyon in the making.

[@williamscoggin1509]

Just another clickbait title, apparently fire was gone a long time ago. This is just flood water runoff not overtaking anything. 👎🏻

[@JohnC-ur5ut]

What's "shocking" about this video ?

[@hpygolkyone]

Arizona has no water. There's a shit load of it right there. Fill your swimming pools with that!

[@bradbutcher3984]

Look at all that wonderful nutrients and natural fertilizer heading towards the flat lands to replenish the soil.

[@marktitus8516]

Amazing to watch but all that added nurtriance mixed into the soil will create new life

[@jimboslice9472]

and they just happened 2 have cameras at this very location 😂

[@5bcattle]

Put A dam up...we need the water

[@scootersonlyrepair6773]

I had a gofundme to raise money to plant trees in places just like this so this exact thing wouldn't happen. Noone donated so I did a rain dance so you can see what I meant.

[@bradbutcher3984]

Water flows downhill genius. You think trees will stop it.

[@waltershumate5777]

Enh. Big deal. Happens most every year in the southwestern U.S. somewhere. This is how they flush in Mexico.

[@Seminolerick]

Its an established wash... i.e. NOT the 1st such occurrence... deal with it !

[@1just4laughs]

And this is how deserts are made.

[@aylahughes9185]

for real tho. arizona is sprinting towards uninhabitability

[@kells-v2p]

@@aylahughes9185 hell it's already there

[@DR4WZ]

I highly doubt Flagstaff will ever be a desert... 😂

[@mattmoschkau84]

This is how deserts are brought to an end! These washes will rejuvenate soil for decades

[@aylahughes9185]

@@mattmoschkau84 ur almost right. almost. if the government hadn't incentivized factory farming and fucked up the top soil and if we hadn't fought wildfires wrong for 100years you would be correct. but unfortunately that sediment is going to make its way well past any place where its of use to humans. most of it is gunna end up in the gulf or at the bottom of a reservoir

[@rooh5825]

Ah, renewal, time to get out there with the kids and do some boating, maybe set up the folding chairs and do some fishing.

[@UQRXD]

Gully wash!