Monster Flash Flood Waterfall Phoenix Arizona 07-23-21

35th Avenue and Pinnacle Peak Road. Flash Flood coming from Carefree and Cavecreek area. this is Skunk Creek.

[@slugerknot]

When Post 10 unclogs a culvert upstream.

[@rainbowwriter672]

And I wonder how many get the joke. Post 10 is a great channel to follow

[@russs7574]

New You Tube drinking game. The group watches videos of flash floods, waterfalls, dam breaches, or any other sort of powerful water in the wild, and if there is a Post 10 reference in the comments, everybody drinks. If there is a reference to "Beavers gonna be angry," or "No adventure without spiders," or "Time for the rake," then everybody chugs.

[@russs7574]

@@rainbowwriter672 You know the beavers were angry about this one. I'm guessing the Rake of Power overdid it this time. lol

[@Joop.23-2-63]

@@rainbowwriter672 As a Dutch, some googling helped me by getting the joke😉

[@hellofromUSA062]

@@rainbowwriter672 love my post!!!!

[@sisterstephanie2557]

I lived in Phoenix as a young adult. When I moved to Ohio, I would get very strange looks from friends and family when we drove over a river because I would yell excitedly "Look, there's water!!" It took me a while to realize that, in Ohio, river beds always have water in them.

[@adamtilley1920]

Thats funny. Yes we get excited for water here for sure. 99% dry and 1% wet.

[@russs7574]

That's just like several years ago, we had relatives come up from South Florida to visit us just outside of Pittsburgh. This included a niece and nephew, ages 7 and 9, who had never been north of Disney World. Now just in back of our house is a little bank that gently slopes 5-10 feet in height down into our back yard proper. Those two kids had the time of their lives running up and down that bank over and over again, and I'm talking about the better part of an hour, it being the biggest "hill" they'd ever walked on.

[@matthewfarrell317]

lol as an Aussie, most of our river beds/creeks tend to be dry, one rain comes and boom instant fill lol.

[@leechjim8023]

I am an Arizonian. I have been to Ohio many times. I have seen the constant rivers there. Here in AZ river beds run for short times, otherwise are merely gravel and sand patrolled by coyotes and rattlesnakes. I love Zona, desert, hot summers, mild winters!

[@jonryan5339]

You were lucky to have been able to back up from the edge this time. Next time use cation in that area because It's been known to swarm that area

[@jacquelinemarie1078]

yes!!!

[@babybirdhome]

You definitely need to scout out the area around you before doing something like this and maintain a lot of constant situational awareness lest you find yourself cut off from every escape back to safety. Water could be creeping up around you from anywhere during a flash flood like this, and once it’s already flowing by you, you’re not going to hear it coming from somewhere else anymore. They are very cool to watch, but I was in the 500 year flooding in Longmont, Colorado several years ago and what started out as just a small-ish stream that was a little higher than normal and overflowing its banks going under a bridge with a bunch of people standing on it looking out over it turned into a 2.5 mile wide river overflowing that bridge that kept flowing at that rate for nearly 10 days in a matter of just 5 minutes. It is advisable to never, ever take a flash flood lightly, even if what you can see seems very small and easily escaped. It may be that way in that moment, but it doesn’t mean that it will still be that way in 30 seconds. Glad you were able to do this one safely and help teach your kids the power of nature, and share it with the rest of the world here so we can all see safely.

[@Nobrun1]

I would travel across the country just to see this live. Amazing how big it eventually got. Thanks Adam.

[@user-nm1rv2bh7k]

Does no one think it was dangerous to have the kids that close?

[@WilliamMurphy-tj7il]

As well as a bridge 20 ft higher out of the reach of a sudden surge....but morons only see the "thrill " of a near death experience

[@shitloveaduck]

The kids reactions while they were learning at the same time. Very fun to hear!! They were so excited while the father was just amazed!! Thanks for sharing this moment.

[@valeriehenrickson2730]

I always love going to a rivers edge of a dry river bed and waiting for the rushing water, I love when I can hear it coming, always do this after every hard rain. Great video!

[@lucasbahe2419]

Damm that's crazy. On the Rez here on Navajo Nation we gots floods to we're water run threw now. All the washes fill up past few storm's. Yupp but anyway. Love ur video 🤩. Showing my love from AZ Navajo Nation 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@mikemarley2389]

91 was a wet year in Phoenix and all of the dry rivers were flooded.The Salt was huge that year and everything was so green.It sent tons of garbage all the way to Mexico.

[@sandramcginnis8802]

Amazing video of a quick-moving Flash Flood and I have lived here in Phoneix for 55 years and have never seen one up close.

[@JoeVideoed]

I used to live in Moon Valley Gardens just north of Shaw Butte. There's an unnamed wash that runs from the MV Country Club behind the house 2 blocks away towards Cave Creek (the actual creek, not the town). Anytime there was significant rainfall I'd go out along w/ others in the 'hood & watch the water flow towards the canal that would eventually divert the water to treatment plants so we could use it later. Now I live in Portland, Oregon where water's taken for granted cause it flows all the time.

[@jeroendesterke9739]

That's why you're still alive.

[@ziraprod6090]

I go out biking when it happens.

[@michaelshuey9670]

It's amazing how it comes from somewhere else like that. That's a lot of water

[@Topitoffable]

Great job filming. I've never seen anything like that. Fasinating.

[@holliegould3463]

this was a delight to watch 🥰 seeing rain in phoenix always makes me happy

[@davidepperson2376]

Wow - excellent job sir. And a great lesson for your kids as well - beware of flash floods and fast moving water!

[@irisb7205]

That is why in the southwest of America they have bridges over dryland which puzzled me until the rains come.

[@jacquelinemarie1078]

I know, bridges over dry land and creeks that don't have water - - - until they do.

[@grantshaver6824]

Thank you for Posting this! Flash floods are no joke

[@jeroendesterke9739]

Amazing how a complete family just stands there with NO idea where this deluge is coming from or how large it will grow. The next thing you read is that an entire family is wiped out.

[@ziraprod6090]

They know where it is coming from, dopey.

[@jcadult101]

It's coming from the north and will flow under the bridge to the south to the large field before the dam. Do you even go outside?

[@callmeshaggy5166]

Amazing how a complete stranger just sprouts nonsense on youtube. Next thing you know we're hearing from experts who have watch dozens of videos on the internet to supersede anybody who actually lives there.

[@teamground0229]

Kids reaction made this better. Good lesson for them on playing in washes.

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

Flood: "How nice of you guys to put some steps in for me to go down to the flood ditch. Thanks! I'ma bring my trash with me."

[@CodeGrayHere]

Very cool. I've lived here 40 years and never have seen that.

[@fcy9722]

Ussually the the camera man records shots that you don't wana see panning away.. every second of this was something i wanted to see.. the best flood cameraman has been found.

[@travislupum]

I used to live right there I remember in the early 90's a bad flood that came thru my dad was down there helping people get out of the water

[@hebneh]

This "stairway to nowhere" out in the open looks odd, but of course it serves a different function, as seen here.

[@gardensofthegods]

Really cool I really enjoyed it and felt as if I was right there with that kid . His voice is identical to someone I used to babysit a long time ago . Too many people don't take the power of water seriously and they don't understand what a flash flood really is but watching this might drive some fear into some people who need it to think they are always impervious to any kind of danger

[@giselelouzan3140]

Boa tarde daqui do Brasil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👍 o que vc disse sobre a natureza é isso mesmo linda mais também tem seus perigos 👏

[@the1mrsmalinski136]

We here in Tonto Basin got hit really hard this year with flooding..we have had mud slides everywhere up here.. stay safe

[@imrankhan-xk4pd]

00923418924826 wathapp call number

[@ProperLogicalDebate]

Keep the excited kids away from the slope as it's probably very dangerous to slip down into the fast flowing water.

[@mdhsyracuse]

Nah, let 'em go swimming.

[@lindahobbs6298]

The water flowing over the steps was very exciting. It’s amazing how these floods can quickly develop, beautiful and dangerous. As much as it’s an adventure and a learning experience, it is very important to also educate the boys on the keeping a safe distance from any avenue, the water can possibly flow from, such as the road they are standing on. What a memory maker for the family .

[@edwardalillersr5461]

I lived in Phoenix for 23yrs. I loved there. Had to move back to Ohio to help with my elderly parents. Lived in buckeye.

[@pompeymonkey3271]

Taking your kids out to see it is excellent! :)

[@jimmy0999]

I respect water and whatever lives in it.

[@otiselevator7738]

Outstanding camera work!

[@elbensedor5751]

Saludos bendiciones desde Houston Texas 🙏🤗🤗🤗

[@bannedheretic2971]

I love flash floods...as long as no one gets hurt.

[@MonthlyFails]

Hello Adam Tilley, 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

[@LunarEquity93]

Great video that's alot of water

[@laryon]

I saw this wash on that day, but the flow was not what your video shows. I haven't seen water flowing down that wash like that for over 25 years. Thanks for posting the video. Nothing better than seeing water flowing down a wash in Phoenix, in the Summer time.

[@canadianphil421]

Just one word i Can think of WOW awesome video

[@SoloWolf-ze7uf]

Those suddent floods in arid climate reminds me of my childhood friends ...the year 95 they were passed away

[@michaelnobles2643]

I live in Phoenix, I’ve never seen flash flooding this up close like this. Wow! Pretty crazy

[@yuriykovalenko.]

because the engineers who built this city calculated everything correctly. but if you go to India or to any white country, there are always floods, landslides, fires, etc

[@dm1972]

20+years and never had the chance to see this happen. Was really cool.

[@dorothysimpson7040]

Does Phoenix harvest the water?

[@dm1972]

@@dorothysimpson7040 Are you paying the workers to harvest it?

[@gooosfrabaYT]

Are all those black Nursery Pots used upstream for what I think they are being used for?!?

[@rogerdudra178]

Good to see water flowing in the desert.

[@diggerfan9319]

When a flight of stars becomes a waterfall!

[@brucemartini2288]

impeccable timing on its arrival😁👍

[@MrSam6294]

I respect Mother Nature 🙏🙏❤️❤️🌺

[@RocketRoberts]

Impressive! What a cool thing to experience. I wonder if there is a nursery upstream, a lot of plastic pots in that flow...

[@GraemeMurphy]

Exactly, that is why the oceans are now littered with plastic. Well done certain uncaring people of Phoenix. May i suggest that some of you band together and run a creek clean up twice a year to remove the crap that certain parties dump because they do not give a shit about the environment.

[@judithmcinnes1264]

@@GraemeMurphy that kid should do it - complete their education a bit more...

[@tburr7502]

there is infact a nursery upstream lol. upstream goes through alot of recent construction so im sure some stuff blew away into the desert overtime and the right big storm came

[@shipsanckor]

Wow thanks for sharing

[@الترحال]

Thank you for sharing 👍

[@darrenheadrick3669]

Live in Phoenix as well. The not only moves fast but gets deep real quick as well. Several years back going to my second job midnight shift had to cross under the I-17 over pass at Bell Rd. Had a 98 chevy Silverado 4×4. State boys were on both sides telling cars not to go through. I had to to get to work. There were 3 cars under the over pass preaty much submerged. I drove through and the water rollwd up over the jood of my truck, just kept a constant hugh idle and made it to the other side.

[@asafaust8869]

In Central Illinois, we never see floods like this. However, there are several viaducts that are so dangerous, after a heavy rain, that whoever drives into it, is not coming out unless they know how to respond when the car is submerged.

[@JvilleNC]

Yeah. I-17 and bell can get really bad. But I think I-17 and Greenway or Thunderbird gets even worse.

[@scottsthoughtschannel9538]

WOW!!! VERY AWESOMENESS FOOTAGE!!! What a KOOL moment with your kids. Also, yes this is a Post10 aftermath even lol!!!

[@kanazef]

the kids is LOVE. teach them to respect and love the nature !

[@vossejongk]

I wonder if the state will ever wise up and create catchment basins instead of just wanting to get rid of any excess water as quickly as possible.

[@jonmann3789]

There are tons of catchment basins all over the valley

[@rahoffman123]

Great video chocolate milk the crunchy kind

[@JohnSmall314]

from the look of the pebbles near where they're standing a lot of even bigger flash floods have happened in the past

[@iqbalzubairy2473]

thanks for nice vedio

[@jmcm737]

This is a good example of how people will endanger not just themselves but others as well.

[@Hank139]

When I was a kid living with my family in Glob Arizona we had a flash food. Police came into the movie theater screaming get to high ground now. I remember running with my mother. The pictures of the aftermath were scary. I’m so old,I think it was before recorded time. lol.

[@yuriykovalenko.]

wow, but in other countries it is called a cataclysm. It turns out that you just need to build cities correctly. Thank you for the video

[@yopeepthisout]

That was great.

[@WebflingerJoe]

Man this is awesome

[@LionheartedDan]

Awesome job Dad! Best thing for boys to be out on the adventure with their dad.

[@rebeccacombs8781]

I find this relaxing for some reason...

[@larrypadilla2809]

Looking forward for this season

[@taurus66]

Wow you such a smart parent bringing your kids. Great example you are to your kids.

[@adamtilley1920]

Not my kids. But thanks for the comment.

[@tburr7502]

Its just a little rain lol. What is a bad example about that lol? Not sure why you are upset?

[@kasmanp3296]

Halo bos Adam Cengkareng Jakarta barat Indonesia nontonnya bareng .sucses bos

[@appamaddox8190]

Slows the water up enough to keep the bridge from getting washed out.

[@rogerdudra178]

Greetings from the BIG SKY. Again.

[@larrypadilla2809]

Nice this would be relaxing 😌 to watch live

[@strykerjones8842]

35th Ave and Pinnacle Peak Rd, North side just West of the Intersection?

[@Lynnefromlyn]

Where did all,those buckets come from?

[@marizaramos9446]

Wow é muita muita água descendo das montanhas😳👏👏👏

[@lindaj5492]

Glad he had the sense to keep checking: “It’s behind you” is a phrase you only like to hear in a pantomime 😬

[@slvrktman7824]

Mother Nature’s way of flushing the toilet. Carefree & Cave creek have more trash laying around than I would have guessed!

[@kathee5258]

wow that's a lot of water!

[@CJLinOHIO]

It is amazing how it goes from nothing to such a large volume of water so quickly. Would love to see the water receding, I imagine it recedes and goes away as quickly as it came?

[@aaronguevaraperez1282]

Es el flash flood más grande que he visto que gran video es increíble éste fenómeno, mi pregunta es como fluye de dónde viene a qué se debe, saludos y abrazos desde Nayarit México

[@tabytastick]

Hola! Are you asking why the water comes to this one area? The ground here in AZ is hard and will not absorb the rain water. The water collects and then creates these flash floods. The water is guided to special drainage areas such as this one. Then most lead the the Salt Water River Canal, owned by our power company SRP.

[@deplorablesunited7168]

Looks like a great ground sluice to 🤫

[@jamesadams893]

Mother nature at her finest

[@Enfrance2003]

It would help to have some context about where this river bed comes from and where it goes. Is it dry most of the time and are these events normal?

[@seth3209]

They need to route this water to Lake Mead!

[@nickpond9337]

NICE DAY GLOW GREEN TROUSES Four Min ' s ISH in Good fun 2 watch Thank you ;

[@jhandirvlogs2312]

Nice bro

[@westongraham1030]

We don’t get this level of flooding in Ahwahtukee, but it’s still very cool to see. People don’t realize how bad flooding can be in a desert lol.

[@callmeshaggy5166]

This looks fun to kayak in

[@adamb0075]

Thats an insane amount of water, just pure crazy, what was it like further downstream, that's mental right place right time

[@jcadult101]

It's flowing down to a giant flood plain north of a dam. Sport fields, RC airport, and desert scrub. Where the dam meets the mountain/hill is an outlet that reduces the flow into the valley.

[@dannyruiz6868]

I live in North Phoenix foothills, and I have a dry wash that runs like this every summer. Like having a creek next to your house. It is fun to watch. The downside is it will wash down all the snakes and scorpions from the top of the hill. That is a bitch to deal with.

[@christinehutchins123]

😮 you need to move 😂

[@dannyruiz6868]

@@christinehutchins123 Not really. I have spent years creating rock paths for run-offs from all sides of my house from the hill sides. My house never gets flooded. If you live on a hillside you better know how the rain can flood your house. My biggest fear is all the greenery growing on the hillside that will eventually dry and become tinder for a fire. But if you understand that, you will need to clear a large area arround your home from the weeds.

[@christinehutchins123]

@@dannyruiz6868 I was joking. I'm sure there are many reasons to enjoy where you are, and you know what to expect and how to handle it,so you are good.😀

[@tonyrobins2644]

Water 🌊 came very quickly must had few inches of rain 🌧️🌧️ hi from Australia 🦘🍻🦘🍻

[@adamtilley1920]

Hello there. Yes got a couple of inches north of where this was taken.

[@willthetrucker7613]

New River?

[@jimmcgarry8466]

Are those boys "simples" ?

[@neilritson7445]

Where are the plastic bottles like in the other flood videos? Have they been phtoshopped out? [asking for a friend]

[@adamtilley1920]

No photoshop.

[@jjcasabermeja]

Es muy peligroso ponerse tan cerca del caudal del río. Un saludo.

[@charlesward8196]

When you view videos on permaculture and water harvesting in arid lands you begin to realize that we are terrible at managing water in the United States. The “brittle landscapes” in the headwaters of these drainages have been disastrously damaged by grazing mis-management and the land should be modified with swales, and other water harvesting structures that slow the water down, allow for infiltration and recharge of the aquifers. We MUST begin to look toward storm flow management via “soakage” rather than drainage as they are doing in arid lands around the world. We cannot afford to keep wasting this resource.

[@davidkozak4139]

Grazing mismanagement? 🤣🤣 I don't think so. There's nothing to graze on!! Do you know anything about Arizona geology? You are trying to sound so smart but you have no idea what you are talking about. What you are watching IS storm flow management! Arizona has extremely dense, clay like soil with very little air pocket space to absorb water. This "soakage" you speak of happens at a much slower rate than many places, so the water pools on the surface because it cannot be absorbed fast enough, and starts to flow with the gradient of the landscape. That's why people have reinforced and otherwise manipulated natural flow channels called washes to direct the water into low lying drainage basins where it can collect into pools and SLOWLY seep into the soil to recharge the aquifers. Why do you think the bottom of the wash has steps and a concrete surface? What you are looking at is NOT mismanagement of storm flow waters, but quite the opposite. Do you understand now?d

[@charlesward8196]

@@davidkozak4139 I have lived and worked in Arizona, and traveled from the Sonoran Desert to the Kaibab Plateau, and from the Colorado River to the Painted Desert, I have a pretty good understanding of Arizona geology. I lived in southern Nevada for 20 years from 1980 to 2000 and witnessed the effects of land management practices that degraded natural systems and reduced overall productivity. Arizona soils are not limited to heavy clays and vary from clay playas to large areas of cryptobiotic soils and sandy and gravelly bajada slopes. Much of the Sonoran Desert was covered with savannah vegetation prior to the arrival of European pastoralism, that damaged wet meadows and triggered the vicious cycle of head-cutting, down-cutting and dewatering of riparian zones. Similar environmental degradation has occurred throughout North America west of the 100th meridian, eastern Australia, and the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa. Perennial grasses have been eliminated by poor grazing practices, head-cutting has disconnected streams from their flood plains and dewatered shallow aquifers, and eliminated perennial stream flows and springs, leaving behind deep arroyos that quickly channel water to flood low lands while depriving head-waters areas of the benefits of water infiltration. Over the last two years I have been studying the practice of “Permaculture” practiced by Geoff Lawson, Andrew Millison, and others on regenerative projects in Africa, the Indian sub-continent, the Middle East, the Untied States, and Australia. Down cut streams are being re-connected with their flood plains in public-private projects in Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, AND Arizona. techniques vary according to to local environments. BDA’s or “Beaver Dam Analogs” have had dramatic effects in less than 5 years, sometimes in as little as two growing seasons, extending seasonal flow periods and reestablishing perennial flows in some watersheds in the American West. In the BLM Elko District in Nevada perennial flows have been re-established during severe droughts by changing stream geometries by installing BDA’s to retard rapid run-off and encourage water infiltration into flood plains in headwaters areas. Endangered native salmonids have be re-established in former habitats. The use of water harvesting structures has captured monsoonal moisture in India, re-establishing perennial flows in certain watersheds, and freed impoverished villagers from the need to have water TRUCKED in during the dry season. From Western Africa to Haiti to southern Arizona low-tech, and low-cost in-channel rock structures are reducing current flows, and creating silt deposits that absorb and gradually release water to encourage the re-establishment of riparian vegetation. Polyculture Dryland Farm in Eastern Australia is working on restoring a landscape that has been degraded by two centuries of inappropriate grazing practices through the construction of ponds, swales, on-contour rips and the planting of annual and perennial vegetation to improve the productivity of the land. David, literal grass-roots projects are being implemented around the planet to break the cycle of floods, droughts, and wildfires with substantial returns on limited investments of labor and the use of locally available materials and plant species in terms of increased land productivity, alleviating rural poverty, stemming the migration of desperate people from rural communities to large urban areas. The apocalypse press is constantly harping on the increasing frequency of floods, droughts and wildfires in response to climate change. Projects around the planet are proving that water harvesting practices reduce the frequency of floods by slowing water run-off from peak precipitation events, and that when that water is infiltrated into the local water table and made available long term, the effects of drought are reduced, and wildfires are less frequent. We need to begin to look at flash floods as a missed opportunity to conserve and wisely use water and begin to repair some of the damage that has been done through the incorrect application of land management practices. Business as usual is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I hope that you can find the time to do some reading up and viewing of permaculture practices and learn to see where I am coming from, rather than being insulting to my experience, education, and intelligence.

[@charlesward8196]

@@davidkozak4139 Check out the video on the “Palominas Recharge Project” in Cochise County Arizona where the local government in implementing ground water recharge and flash flood mitigation through the use of water harvesting structures. Is CAN work in Arizona.

[@kalpnadevi9124]

Happy holi nanu ge holi ki didi ho

[@doristinio4862]

The river is now running after you kiddos..ENJOY🙂

[@chucklogan9611]

Wow!

[@paulashby8204]

Great dad!

[@carolheuser4096]

So sad that an aea as dry as Arizona does not do something to harvest the water. They just let it run off and it. Is gone forever.

[@jackx4311]

Some days, Post 10 just doesn't know his own strength . . . ;)

[@cinsana88]

I live a mile from here, can confirm it can get this bad

[@anthonye.4999]

Where is this exactly? GPS coordinates maybe? There is nothing more absolute than water giving and taking.

[@adamtilley1920]

35th Avenue and Pinnacle Peak Road. Phoenix, AZ 85027

[@melan12027]

Few things are as scary as flash floods. In my country people die every year trying to cross such rivers