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Post Icon Posted: July 21 2010,3:28 pm Post # 1 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Yesterday driving into Flagstaff from Grand Canyon via Cameron. We'd just driven through a hellatious storm coming past Meteor Crater park, a storm I'd been seeing in front of me for at least an hour prior to reaching it. As we decended from the Crater park area there are some really nice ranch homes on the right........they'd all been hit by a flashflood moments before, awful to see someones homes being hit by this 1/4 mile wide flood.
1/2 mile further down the road another flashflood had come down the streets and flooded a Chevron station. Extremely heavy flows on both but the first one we saw was really bad. The attached newslink says a 12 yr old girl died in the flood :(

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They Are Calling For More Rain Too.....


FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A young girl, swept away by floodwaters has died. Coconino County Sheriff’s officials said the girl was 12 years old.

She has been identified as Shaelyn Wilson. Officials said the girl fell into a wash south of White Vulcan Mine.

Meantime, several small streams have pushed over their banks, and flash floods are threatening homes.

Highway 89 was closed down for a short period of time, it has since been reopened.

The floodwaters are tearing through the area, where last month’s Schultz fire charred 15,000 acres.

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Post Icon Posted: July 21 2010,3:37 pm Post # 3 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Actually seeing it happen was astounding....the leading edge of the flood was barely past the homes as we drove by....so literally it happened just moments before we got there......it was gnarly to see.

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I'll Bet That It Was A Pretty Awesome Sight!! Pretty Sad Deal.... The News Reported That Homes Had 2-3Ft. Of Mud In Them..... :eek

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Post Icon Posted: July 21 2010,3:40 pm Post # 5 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A young girl, swept away by floodwaters has died. Coconino County Sheriff’s officials said the girl was 12 years old.

She has been identified as Shaelyn Wilson. Officials said the girl fell into a wash south of White Vulcan Mine.

Meantime, several small streams have pushed over their banks, and flash floods are threatening homes.

Highway 89 was closed down for a short period of time, it has since been reopened.

The floodwaters are tearing through the area, where last month’s Schultz fire charred 15,000 acres.

We drove through some of the heaviest rain I'd ever been in both up in Grand Canyon and then this storm which hit the Flagstaff region. There was probably at least 2 to 3 inches of water on the road surface.

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I'll Bet That It Was A Pretty Awesome Sight!! Pretty Sad Deal.... The News Reported That Homes Had 2-3Ft. Of Mud In Them..... :eek

It looked like brown lava at the leading edge.....just faster moving.

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Post Icon Posted: July 21 2010,3:48 pm Post # 7 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
http://www.kpho.com/slideshow/news/24331785/detail.html

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Post Icon Posted: July 21 2010,10:28 pm Post # 8 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Very scary...and very sad. :(

Back when I was a kid, the Big Thompson River/Canyon flooded during one of our annual trips through Colorado.  I remember driving through an area where the flood waters had gone and seeing a life sized doll wedged up against a tree, buried in mud.  I thought it was a kid and I was hysterical.  I had just turned 11, and that image haunts me to this day.  Given how many people died in that flood (144), I'm lucky it was only a doll. :(

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Post Icon Posted: July 22 2010,10:19 am Post # 9 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Quote (Carrera Elite @ July 21 2010,3:48 pm)
http://www.kpho.com/slideshow/news/24331785/detail.html

In that slideshow pic #10 shows where it crossed the road(hwy89). When we drove by there the leading edge of the flood was just approaching that spot. Apparently we got through there just before it got shut down. One of the more incredible things I've ever seen.

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Post Icon Posted: July 22 2010,7:07 pm Post # 10 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
Very sad indeed. :(  We unfortunately forget who runs the show and tend to mess up Mother Natures playground and every now and then she shows us whos boss. We funnel this watershed into this watershed then another one and another, then all of the sudden, its the Mississippi in AZ

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Quote (Ziggy @ July 22 2010,10:19 am)
Quote (Carrera Elite @ July 21 2010,3:48 pm)
http://www.kpho.com/slideshow/news/24331785/detail.html

In that slideshow pic #10 shows where it crossed the road(hwy89). When we drove by there the leading edge of the flood was just approaching that spot. Apparently we got through there just before it got shut down. One of the more incredible things I've ever seen.

Damm... :eek   Runaway water does pack a PUNCH... :beat
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Been watching it on the news, nasty stuff there!.. :eek
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Post Icon Posted: July 29 2010,3:35 pm Post # 13 see this member send this member a private message  quote this post in reply
.....Then There Is This......



FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Inspectors with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are checking cracks found in Flagstaff's multimillion-dollar flood control dam.

Several cracks in the new 71-acre flood control basin dam in west Flagstaff were found during a recent inspection by the Arizona Department of Water Resources, officials said.

Most of the cracks are less than an inch wide, they said.

The eastern end of the basin has an earthen dam lined with rocks and covered on top with cement. It is in the top cement where the cracks were found.

The dam is bisected by a concrete spillway, but no cracks have been found there.

The basin is designed to slow storm water runoff from residential areas in the westernmost sections of Flagstaff during major storms.

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