Also keep in mind that just because the swell on top of the road has appeared to have subsided doesn't mean the flood hasn't undermined the road and compromised the structural integrity
People also forget to account for the speed and amount of water. It doesn't take a huge amount of water but if it has power - look out! Works in opposite as well. Flash storm conditions are just no no.
Native here.......this is actually a pretty normal monsoon activity, it's just the past decade or so has been pretty dismal. So glad to see this rain. Nothing like hiking the Sonoran desert in this kind of weather.
it is, i so hope, coming back to normal. couple of the washes they crossed, i would not have crossed. it only takes a few inches to sweep away that wee truck.
I'm from Arizona but live in Iowa now. One thing i've learned in Iowa is just because it looks like there's a road under that running water doesn't mean there is. The road can wash out and look perfectly safe until, all of a sudden, your floating in 4 feet of flood water. Don't do it!
Same here in North Carolina, every year we have tropical storms or hurricanes and just about every single death is caused by driving across flooded roads. Just pour yourself your favorite beverage and enjoy the storm from the safety of your own home.
Cars can be washed away with as little as 2 inches of water also besides flooding being a danger the first 15 minutes of the rain is the most dangerous because the oils on the road have been loosened up but have not yet been washed away!
We took full advantage of the rain. My girlfriends mom caught us doing it in the backyard during the storm. We think she's watched us before... Too convenient.
@@donnalawrence9054 It's better than a Drought & a severe one that's for sure, the West has been in a major problematic drought for the last decade+ not to mention all the wild fires! Water is probably the most precious resource on Earth & it's becoming more & more scarce so beggars can't be choosers, I'll take the rain however mother nature decides to bring it, - the acid.
Later this week, can you please get pictures of the newly growing grasses, blooming shrubs and trees in bloom? That ought to be a sight! Thanks for your pictures.
Riverburg need slot of cows. Doubtful there are that many grazing in this state.Lets say on the road to saquaro lake or camp Verde or Payson Prescott wickenberg or ashfork. As howlow or alpine or nutrioso or springerville and that's just a tiny bit there's not enough cows horses or anything else. All I said is beautiful rain. We needed it so bad. Too bad it creates so much fuel.Almost like can't win for losing.
I'm out in the boondocks of Casa Grande. That was a pretty impressive storm we had. We got close to 3" in the first storm. When it hit us the rain was coming down looking outside during the heaviest parts it was like looking at a wall of water. Turned our property into a lake. The toads all came out to sing their songs that night. Friday all the dragonflies were flying around laying their eggs in the water. Feel bad for them since the last of the water finally soaked into the ground today. My mom lives out in Gold Canyon and they got the light show with very little rain, but all the mountain runoff. We got all the flashes and bangs but we couldn't see because of the rain. I hope this continues for the rest of the monsoon season. God knows we need the rain.
I used to live in AZ and remember August was "no sleep" month. The electric storms always start after midnight and just as you fall asleep a clap of thunder & flash of lightning throws you out of bed... Good luck down there!
Years ago I was trying to get home after the bar closed on a Friday/ Saturday morning. 87 ave union hills used to be 2 lanes. Orange groves spanned the entire area. It was a wash and it was running. Just a stop sign back in the day. It was drizzling and it appeared to be maybe 1 inch of moving water. I get out throw a good size rock and it seemed good to go. I had a 1971 Chevelle so however much it weighed, as soon as I got maybe a foot or so into the little stream of running water, my car got flipped on its side and it drifted into a huge boulder. There were 2 huge 4 wheel trucks with as lift kit and KC,s and winches. One guy drove up to me as now I'm sitting on the we indow frame driver's side and pulled me out. Thank God for those guys. It seemed so innocent. Just a bit of moving water. Right. To hat little bit of water can totally kill you. Hence the stupid motorist law. Thank you
I lived on 115th Ave just south of Jomax (Back when it was Rico Road, named for old man Rico) From 1973 to 2001. The floods down the Agua Fria River have been epic over the decades.
After moving to Washington State, peopled looked at me like I was nuts when I wouldn’t go anywhere when it was raining , because back in the day your house might be where it once was. The monsoons are nothing to play with in Az. Before they put the bridge on hiway 85 ( 80 it used to be) the Agua Fria would run fast and wicked. And to go from Avondale into Phoenix you had to find another way if they weren’t flooded.
This flood isnt 100 year flood. In 1978 the agua fria ripped a 60 foot high freeway bridge down on the north bound side of I17. The water was up 60 feet to the bridge proper before it went. agua fria is barely cruisin now. just wait till it drags 300 ton 20 foot boulders down the river, THATLL GET EVERYONES ATTENTION. It makes things fall off the wall and shelves if you live within 1/8 mile, nonstop grinding for weeks sonetimes. Even people living 200 feet up on the cliffs move away after in fear. . The agua fria can move as much water at full flood as the missisipi at full flood. The mighty miss goes 50 miles wide to hold it all, moving 6 miles an hour with 50 foot drop across a state. The agua fria at points is 100 yards wide, but since it drops 50 feet EVERY MILE, it moves at 30 to 50 miles an hour at full flood. ALL middle and southern AZ flooding is dangerous because of that drop causing that high speed. Small streams you can cross in other states will blow a regular passenger car off the road @ 10 inches deep in AZ. If you try to walk across one of these, turn upstream, shuffle sideways, watch out for floating wood to take out your knees and bash/wash you away. If you absolutely HAVE TO cross a bad one, grab the heaviest rock you can find, to hold you down as you cross.
@@Rivenburg-xd5yf The new Waddell dam has put a stop to most of the flooding on the Agua Fria. In 78 they let the reservoir fill all the way up and then dumped the gates. With less rainfall and a much bigger lake I think those days are done. It better be, many of the places they said no one would ever be allowed to build on now have apartments and housing on them. Where happy Valley Parkway crosses the Agua Fria there was a little town called Hound Dog. My brother in law had a zoo down there. Incredible mismanagement led up to the 78 flood. Sometimes it seems we don't learn the lessons we should.
HEARD THAT BABY! waiting for the claims on the black canyon to slow down. new to me 35 year old gas powered double panner im taking out. runs great. maybe a dredge, but for sure sliuces.
That is why America always called them flash floods and not monsoons. Monsoons happen over very large areas, like a hurricane without the extremely high winds. The language change by the Globalist weather centers.
This is NOT what a 100 Year Flood even looks like! When the streets in Phoenix are overflowing with water up the the houses, THEN you have the 100 Year Flood. You driving through the water is exactly what you should not be doing! Hikers are killed because the rain falls several miles away and they get caught by the rushing water and worse what is in the riverbeds. They could not outrun the wall of water. Same thing can happen as you drive through the water!!!
That's a 100 year flood if that actually happened every 100 years. It's a 100 year flood because this is the level of flooding that usually happens once every 100 years on average, but are happening more commonly now. If you need half the state to drown for that to be used, you're a ridiculous person.
@@rotomoto8416 LOL, You mean the entro for "emegency 911"? lol, I KNEW THOSE BOZOS. They were drunk AH. That was the second time that night they were rescued from the black canyon river. my buddy rick was in the chopper doing the harness, the drunks effed up and pushed his knee under the choppers landing strut and the van they were in, effed him up. They paid about $20,000. I saw them the next day in the barbershop, called them all the bad words i know.
This is no way a 100 year flood. When the salt river is running bank to bank like in 1980, that’s a 100 year flood. Full size cotton wood trees toppling end over end. The water sounded like a roaring freight train.
Nah, at least so far. The moisture stream is squeezed between two highs right now, but it will open up a bit over the next couple days it looks like, letting things spread out.
We had flash floods in London, too. Subways stations hit, 2 hospitals had their emergency rooms closed, malls under water etc. No where near as bad as Germany or China, thankfully. Cheers from England xxx
You newbie’s don’t remember back in the day when every time we got a big storm half the bridges over the salt river would collapse or the road wash away . Az has came a long way since those days
Lived in Phoenix from ‘77 to ‘79 and remember when they bulldozed the approaches to save the bridges over the Salt river. I think it was ‘78 when the only way across the river was the interstate bridge. That year the floods washed out the Black Canyon interstate bridges. This is not a 100 year event.
@@billyturner1600 I don't like that term. Fake is subjective. There is no truth; there is reality and the way people perceive it but one person's truth is not everyone's truth. But I agree that the news is sensationalist so always do your own research.
We just moved out to Scottsdale from Chicago, so it's really great to see what a real monsoon season can be. The storm clouds over the McDowell area were a beautiful sight yesterday. I wanted to drive out to the desert to see what it was like, but thought better not. Thanks for the video so I could see what goes on out there.
@Bryan Lashbrook WRONG. 'Haboob' is an arabic term meaning "to blow" or "blowing". A haboob is a huge violent sweeping dust storm and /or sandstorm. "The term "haboob" originated as a description for wind and sandstorms/duststorms in central and northern Sudan, especially around the Khartoum area, where the average number is about 24 per year"(glossary of meteorology)
Phoenix is downstream of Lake Powell on the Salt. And we're well south of Lake Mead. Our water goes south, but I don't know what reservoirs are in the south western part of AZ.
“…Arizona has a stupid motorist law…” that if you are stranded in barricaded flood waters you must pay the rescue bill? Doesn’t sound like a stupid law to me.
So glad you guys got some rain! We need some up here in idaho so bad. Wildfires all around us yesterday. They got most of them under control but there is no rain in sight. Hope some comes soon. Great channel!
The reservoirs need refilling. To my mind a Thunder Lighting and rain storm is South Eastern Arizona during the summer is a beautiful thing. Thanks for the the video.
best season we have ....monsoon season, some decent rain, lightning thunder......awesome, got to love it, but yeah DON"T go through washes, they can take you with them
Same in Tucson. I heard Flagstaff was really bad. Also noticed pages of home listings in Flagstaff in the last few days which is unusual. They want out now because of floods. Great video Jeff.
Great video thank you I’m loving the monsoons they are so cool and much needed rain!’ I’ve never heard thunder that shakes the ground and the lightening omg what a beautiful show!! Gods country bless Arizona
It rains so "Much" in AZ that MOST wiper blades weld to the windshield until the first time they get used and the wiper splits into two pieces,,,we get maybe 20 days of Rain in a year
I took my rubber blades of and covered the metal with fabric Incase I accidently hit the switch. I would wait untill it was going to rain before putting them on. They never lasted a summer baking in the sun......try a cheap long sock from .99 store
I live in Peoria Az . My husband and I never watch TV together . Ever since we found your channel we watch your videos in the livingroom big screen. We snuggle now and watch a video of yours every night. Thank you!
May have broke a spot record somewhere of some type but certainly not a 100 year flood. I’ve lived in AZ for 60 years and have seen a bunch more water. I did enjoy the video but it didn’t look scary. Nothing I wouldn’t cross on a moped. 😜
I've been here 20 years and never saw a monsoon rain that goes on at full intensity hour after hour after hour. The water filled my pool to overflowing and the water came up 4 inches to my backdoor. This storm was intense. And I don't live near a wash. I'm in your average suburban community and travel was impossible for hours. Flash flood warnings were hitting my mobile phone every hour urging residents to stay put wherever they were.
I remember back in 2002, I moved out to AZ. I had never seen something like a monsoon rain, being from Utah. I saw a dumpster floating down the street on Shay BLVD. I couldn't stop laughing
Hope and pray that everyone stays safe. Never understood WHY people insist on driving thru arroyos and water knowing that they can possibly drown. Stay alive and turn around. I refused to drive thru anything that I knew was dangerous
Yes, even if you can see the road people have to account for the force & speed of the water - which they never do. Guess everyone slept thru physics class!
In the Yuma Foothills, I lived along the Fortuna Wash(1993-2008)...25 foot of my backyard above the normally dry wash gone...$50,000 of huge rocks, concrete, rip rap needed along 150 ft, 25 foot high bank, 3 foot closer, my indoor swimming pool would be gone! Scary, I thought my 15 years in Malibu was the end to this crap! Thanks for making this video ....
@@tacocruiser4238 The Fortuna Wash went clear over I-8 , I lived about a mile and a half upstream from I-8, along Ironwood Drive facing the mountains. Awesome place no homes were built yet across the wash. When I moved in 73 from the beach to 1000 ft above in a Malibu Cyn, a month later, a huge brush fire nearly burned down my home...a welcome to Arizona, however I LOVE ARIZONA!
@@tacocruiser4238 No in the early 1990s. Yuma at the busiest intersection at 16th St & 4th Avenue used to flood all the time when it rained. We moved to Yuma from Cali in 1992, bought home in August '93...Yes, the monsoons don't drop rain to us in the South Western corner. We get 2 weeks of humidity in August...very little rainfall...the sunniest city in the world is Yuma
I live in Scottsdale and learned a few things from your video. Very informative and great editing. I'm sharing this video with friends and relatives. You saved me from having to get wet. Thank you!
AZ native here, currently living in the Verde valley. This is probably the coolest/scariest thing about living in Arizona, next to the fires. Even a teenage girl got swept away a couple days ago by these waters and they're still looking. But I do love the coolness the storms bring, but at dangerous cost for sure. Living here gives you a different kind of toughness that most other states seem to lack.
There IS a water shortage/drought/record breaking heat thruout the West, but since YOU know what God is thinking…when will the hard working ranchers/farmers be able to recover their horrific losses from the drought?
@@chrisclinton8949 well, here's a theory, because thee aquifers are being sucked dry for supply to all those underground bunkers they(higher echelons of society) are blasting out for themselves, once this earth is dry and barren and void. Thus the sonic booms no one seems to explain and the many quakes around the world. So if a mere pheasant, such as myself, could dream up such nonsense, what do you suppose evil could dream up and succeed?.
A foot of rushing water can carry away most cars and two feet will carry away just about any SUV. There is NO WAY to determine the depth or speed of floodwaters just by looking at it, especially water filled with sediment. Good day/days to call off from work and stay home.
Water is truly an amazing force some people are not aware of while others defiantly deny as they dare to drive the flooded areas. I have one acquaintance who, in a hurry, dared to go through a swift flood to get home, only to be carried into a telephone pole. Even what seems like a couple of inches of water can cause the vehicle to hydroplane as a closer friend of mine experienced when she hydroplaned into a telephone pole (also).
We so needed this monsoon afternoon the last 2 years of non-soon, but man I've had a bad migraine until about now. The pressure finally went away and it's cleared up. You got hot hard out in Cave creek!
Jill and Butterfly,: I’m sorry you have those headaches, I know how you feel. Before storms I get headaches too and my doctor once suspected the barometric pressure and all the microscopic pollens and dust might be causing headaches. So ever since, I started taking a decongestant like Benadryl and it really does help me. Stay well. Hugs from alabama .
Thank you for your video. You pointed out quite clearly the dangerous areas. and even how the drought has affected plant life. You truly are a wonderful narrator, and do look forward to seeing more of your works. If I may add, it is so wonderful to see how you put your heart into your work. 'Tis rare these days. Thank you so much.
Been raining off and on for 3 days straight in Mesa. They say it's going to let up for a couple of days and then start up again mid-week. What's funny is I flood irrigated my yard for 45 minutes while it was raining, but my fruit trees will take all they can get! My ground soaks it up like a sponge.
Also Mesa here! What a deluge! The previous storm broke two branches off my Palo verde, snd i haven’t finished sawing it yet… now a major branch broke off one of my orange trees…
@@davidhubbard7573 😂😂 ours (CA) is run by DemocRats. They created a water crisis so they can charge us for the water. I get to see our water run straight to the ocean, at least these last few years 😱 next they are thinking of going after Californians who have water wells! Lord help us 🙏🏼
@@lindaleach5269 um, the salt has several very large dams, the agua fria has the MASSIVE lake pleasent dam, everything goes to the colorado after that. not sure if its, above or below the last dam.
I am so greatful for the Rain The West was drying up ! Out land needed it. The animals needed it. The trees and bugs and Birds needed it. We need it 💯🌹
@@tacocruiser4238 The Sonoran desert is not arid enough to support the Joshua tree. The Saguaro stores a lot of water in its "arms." So it needs to have a "wet season" (monsoon) in order to do so and survive. A wet season like the Sonoran desert has would over saturate the Joshua tree. There is a reason why different deserts will have differing plant life.
Since I was a little boy, I have always loved nature's light shows. Thunder and lightning in a downpour is just downright exciting. I especially love it while out camping. I'm a primitive style camper and rain drops on canvass is one of the most relaxing sounds with which to fall asleep. I'm planning on retiring in the Pheonix - Tuscon area this April or May. I look forward to Monsoon season.
Also keep in mind that just because the swell on top of the road has appeared to have subsided doesn't mean the flood hasn't undermined the road and compromised the structural integrity
That's why we have a stupid motorist law here
@@susannyysti869 Yeah, we got tired of paying for their dumb ass.
People also forget to account for the speed and amount of water. It doesn't take a huge amount of water but if it has power - look out! Works in opposite as well. Flash storm conditions are just no no.
Cross it numbnuts!!!!!!!🙈🤗😜🤪🤣
@@bensonyazzie1168 haha famous last words
This sure beats the drought and fires from last year! We need the water.
Be safe!
Native here.......this is actually a pretty normal monsoon activity, it's just the past decade or so has been pretty dismal. So glad to see this rain.
Nothing like hiking the Sonoran desert in this kind of weather.
it is, i so hope, coming back to normal. couple of the washes they crossed, i would not have crossed. it only takes a few inches to sweep away that wee truck.
So true
AGREED...
Back in 1968 the Prescott area had monsoon storms for 30 strait days. It was wonderful. I could be off a year.
Its been about 15-20 yrs since "normal monsoon"
Hopefully this becomes more regular.
I LOVE the smell of the desert after it rains.
I like the smell of the dessert after it water river flowing down the washing
Love the smell of desert rain !
Creosote bushes after the rain smell like heaven.
Its called mud
Agreed! Best smell ever!! Born & raised in Phx but now live in FL .. tried to describe the smell to coworkers but failed miserably LOL
Just a flash flood. Been loving watching them for 42 years. That desert rain smell!!
Rainbows?
I'm from Arizona but live in Iowa now. One thing i've learned in Iowa is just because it looks like there's a road under that running water doesn't mean there is. The road can wash out and look perfectly safe until, all of a sudden, your floating in 4 feet of flood water. Don't do it!
The majority of flood deaths are among people who try to drive across flooded roads and don't make it across.
Same here in North Carolina, every year we have tropical storms or hurricanes and just about every single death is caused by driving across flooded roads. Just pour yourself your favorite beverage and enjoy the storm from the safety of your own home.
Cars can be washed away with as little as 2 inches of water also besides flooding being a danger the first 15 minutes of the rain is the most dangerous because the oils on the road have been loosened up but have not yet been washed away!
Great point
Thank you Captain obvious once again you save the day from being obvious
We needed this rain. Repair the low water levels, help the fires
Well don't let it all run off.
too bad it is the snowpack we really need! all this just runs downstream
This will make things worse. This is highly unstable. Gonna make the flora grow and will dry out and will become tinder for wildfires.
@@DustinHawke yup
We took full advantage of the rain. My girlfriends mom caught us doing it in the backyard during the storm. We think she's watched us before... Too convenient.
The entire West needs all this rain.
Not like this.
@@donnalawrence9054 It's better than a Drought & a severe one that's for sure, the West has been in a major problematic drought for the last decade+ not to mention all the wild fires! Water is probably the most precious resource on Earth & it's becoming more & more scarce so beggars can't be choosers, I'll take the rain however mother nature decides to bring it, - the acid.
Agreed! Near 5 months in south central Washington
No need to complain but prepare for the coming years.
@@donnalawrence9054 I agree...we've had enough. Send the rest to Cali or something.
This was beautifully filmed; a treasure. Thank you!
Love this ! I'm so grateful for rain this monsoon season
Dear we dont have Monsoons in this part of the World..We dont have a Monsoon season..
@@windwhipped5 Arizona does have a monsoon season.
am from Algeria I want to buy a house in Arizona I am looking for a specialized real estate agent internationally
The desert looks so beautiful in the rain. Thanks for going out and showing us.
how hot does Arizona get during a summer?
Later this week, can you please get pictures of the newly growing grasses, blooming shrubs and trees in bloom? That ought to be a sight! Thanks for your pictures.
Very much looking forward to that!
It'll be beautiful alright, but lots of fuel for fires
@@marywinterstein2952 Thats what the cows are for.
Riverburg need slot of cows. Doubtful there are that many grazing in this state.Lets say on the road to saquaro lake or camp Verde or Payson Prescott wickenberg or ashfork. As howlow or alpine or nutrioso or springerville and that's just a tiny bit there's not enough cows horses or anything else. All I said is beautiful rain. We needed it so bad. Too bad it creates so much fuel.Almost like can't win for losing.
The rain in Goodyear today was a soft rain for what seemed like hours.
Around Tucson too. Two days running with that soft rain which can be deceiving
Welcome water
A slow, soaking rain is just what we need the most.
I'm out in the boondocks of Casa Grande. That was a pretty impressive storm we had. We got close to 3" in the first storm. When it hit us the rain was coming down looking outside during the heaviest parts it was like looking at a wall of water. Turned our property into a lake. The toads all came out to sing their songs that night. Friday all the dragonflies were flying around laying their eggs in the water. Feel bad for them since the last of the water finally soaked into the ground today. My mom lives out in Gold Canyon and they got the light show with very little rain, but all the mountain runoff. We got all the flashes and bangs but we couldn't see because of the rain. I hope this continues for the rest of the monsoon season. God knows we need the rain.
Yay, C.G. in the house
Casa Grande turns into a GIANT lake when the gila gets going. used to trip out driving to Tucson looking west at the plain of water to the horizon.
I used to live in AZ and remember August was "no sleep" month. The electric storms always start after midnight and just as you fall asleep a clap of thunder & flash of lightning throws you out of bed... Good luck down there!
We’re going to get more I think. I’m also out in CG.
Be safe. An have a plan B. My Friend. I would spend sometime with Momma just to be where she need you
Years ago I was trying to get home after the bar closed on a Friday/ Saturday morning. 87 ave union hills used to be 2 lanes. Orange groves spanned the entire area. It was a wash and it was running. Just a stop sign back in the day. It was drizzling and it appeared to be maybe 1 inch of moving water. I get out throw a good size rock and it seemed good to go. I had a 1971 Chevelle so however much it weighed, as soon as I got maybe a foot or so into the little stream of running water, my car got flipped on its side and it drifted into a huge boulder. There were 2 huge 4 wheel trucks with as lift kit and KC,s and winches. One guy drove up to me as now I'm sitting on the we indow frame driver's side and pulled me out. Thank God for those guys. It seemed so innocent. Just a bit of moving water. Right. To hat little bit of water can totally kill you. Hence the stupid motorist law. Thank you
Driving drunk they should of left you.
@@The_Conqueeftador you are sick and where did it say he was drunk?
People who live in flash flood prone areas have a hard time getting how powerful moving water is.
Just moved to AZ 3 months ago to the verde valley. Yeah this weather is different. Amazing lighting. Exciting stuff.
Haha! I just moved to Albuquerque NM, it’s not really considered a desert, but they e been getting a lot of unusual rain and lightning too
Always have a bug out bag in trunk with 2gals H2O, never know when you may need them and other essentials.
Moved here to Verde valley 25 yrs ago when there were only 2 stop 🛑 lights in the whole town of Cottonwood. Yeah what a difference now!
Most of what you're seeing in the video is after the flashflood had mostly subsided. I guarantee you the water was much higher and swifter earlier.
Moved out in 05. Ironically because of the lack of water.
An old non-PC bit of wisdom: "A White man will build a million dollar house, where an Indian wouldn't pitch his tepee."
Hehehe very funny.
Some one who is never lived the desert we'll buy a house from a crooked developer
@@jasonthomas1299 ---I checked on-line FEMA flood plain maps of the property.
El Ultimo: dat’s de truth! When will we learn?
@@jasonthomas1299 welcome to DeSantis state of Florida. Con men and meth labs everywhere and Red Tide Ronnie on photo opportunities
I lived on 115th Ave just south of Jomax (Back when it was Rico Road, named for old man Rico) From 1973 to 2001. The floods down the Agua Fria River have been epic over the decades.
After moving to Washington State, peopled looked at me like I was nuts when I wouldn’t go anywhere when it was raining , because back in the day your house might be where it once was. The monsoons are nothing to play with in Az. Before they put the bridge on hiway 85 ( 80 it used to be) the Agua Fria would run fast and wicked. And to go from Avondale into Phoenix you had to find another way if they weren’t flooded.
This flood isnt 100 year flood. In 1978 the agua fria ripped a 60 foot high freeway bridge down on the north bound side of I17. The water was up 60 feet to the bridge proper before it went. agua fria is barely cruisin now. just wait till it drags 300 ton 20 foot boulders down the river, THATLL GET EVERYONES ATTENTION. It makes things fall off the wall and shelves if you live within 1/8 mile, nonstop grinding for weeks sonetimes. Even people living 200 feet up on the cliffs move away after in fear. . The agua fria can move as much water at full flood as the missisipi at full flood. The mighty miss goes 50 miles wide to hold it all, moving 6 miles an hour with 50 foot drop across a state.
The agua fria at points is 100 yards wide, but since it drops 50 feet EVERY MILE, it moves at 30 to 50 miles an hour at full flood. ALL middle and southern AZ flooding is dangerous because of that drop causing that high speed. Small streams you can cross in other states will blow a regular passenger car off the road @ 10 inches deep in AZ.
If you try to walk across one of these, turn upstream, shuffle sideways, watch out for floating wood to take out your knees and bash/wash you away. If you absolutely HAVE TO cross a bad one, grab the heaviest rock you can find, to hold you down as you cross.
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@@Rivenburg-xd5yf The new Waddell dam has put a stop to most of the flooding on the Agua Fria. In 78 they let the reservoir fill all the way up and then dumped the gates. With less rainfall and a much bigger lake I think those days are done. It better be, many of the places they said no one would ever be allowed to build on now have apartments and housing on them. Where happy Valley Parkway crosses the Agua Fria there was a little town called Hound Dog. My brother in law had a zoo down there. Incredible mismanagement led up to the 78 flood. Sometimes it seems we don't learn the lessons we should.
@@MrMarkRoads wow, great history. never heard of hounddog, or the zoo.
when did waddel get built up? ive been out of phx up north for a while.
Break out the gold pans and head for the washes after everything dries.
HEARD THAT BABY! waiting for the claims on the black canyon to slow down. new to me 35 year old gas powered double panner im taking out. runs great. maybe a dredge, but for sure sliuces.
Hell ya I can't wait!!!!!! I'll be heading to the claims to beat the guys with the drywashers!!! Take my recirculating system ha ha ha ha
Three dudes that know what's up!
@@magicone9327 apa claims are pretty good when it come for flood gold... I've gotten some petty damn nice pickers
@@Rivenburg-xd5yf I seen a couple places on r.r claims that have some good water in the creeks. Lil San do has some good water in there as well
That's an unbelievable show of force water has. Quick an in a hurry.
Great video! 👍👍
That is why America always called them flash floods and not monsoons. Monsoons happen over very large areas, like a hurricane without the extremely high winds. The language change by the Globalist weather centers.
This is NOT what a 100 Year Flood even looks like! When the streets in Phoenix are overflowing with water up the the houses, THEN you have the 100 Year Flood. You driving through the water is exactly what you should not be doing! Hikers are killed because the rain falls several miles away and they get caught by the rushing water and worse what is in the riverbeds. They could not outrun the wall of water. Same thing can happen as you drive through the water!!!
Oh yes..remember the water wheel disaster... so tragic!
@@sheilabanks5571 What's that?
@@mr.elastomeric1787 Shelia about to be the one on top of a truck begging for a helicopter rescue! Lol
That's a 100 year flood if that actually happened every 100 years. It's a 100 year flood because this is the level of flooding that usually happens once every 100 years on average, but are happening more commonly now. If you need half the state to drown for that to be used, you're a ridiculous person.
@@rotomoto8416 LOL, You mean the entro for "emegency 911"? lol, I KNEW THOSE BOZOS. They were drunk AH. That was the second time that night they were rescued from the black canyon river. my buddy rick was in the chopper doing the harness, the drunks effed up and pushed his knee under the choppers landing strut and the van they were in, effed him up. They paid about $20,000. I saw them the next day in the barbershop, called them all the bad words i know.
This is no way a 100 year flood. When the salt river is running bank to bank like in 1980, that’s a 100 year flood. Full size cotton wood trees toppling end over end. The water sounded like a roaring freight train.
Houses floating down the river, it was 1983 in Tucson. I think we have one in 1977 also.
There's been about three or four 100 year floods that I know of since the '80s.
Nah, at least so far. The moisture stream is squeezed between two highs right now, but it will open up a bit over the next couple days it looks like, letting things spread out.
1983.
I remember those days. The bridges would be gone! We'd have to wait a few days for repair crews
We had flash floods in London, too. Subways stations hit, 2 hospitals had their emergency rooms closed, malls under water etc. No where near as bad as Germany or China, thankfully. Cheers from England xxx
Hopefully much of this water runoff is being captured/diverted/saved to aquifers, basins, lakes, wells, cisterns, etc.
Arizona is VERY Good at Capturing Rain,,,
Because the ground just sucks it up......LOL
Unlike CA
Yes we do catch the water unlike california
@@carlrice6989 hopefully…cuz I heard the state makes it illegal for AZ citizens to do so…
You newbie’s don’t remember back in the day when every time we got a big storm half the bridges over the salt river would collapse or the road wash away . Az has came a long way since those days
Looks like just another day in Florida.
I remember that back in the 1970s.
yup or raining so hard if driveing all you saw was white and ten minutes later brite and sunny
Lived in Phoenix from ‘77 to ‘79 and remember when they bulldozed the approaches to save the bridges over the Salt river. I think it was ‘78 when the only way across the river was the interstate bridge. That year the floods washed out the Black Canyon interstate bridges. This is not a 100 year event.
@@77leelg exactly me and you’ve seen way worse .just in the last 43 years . We remember when big storms crippled Phx .
What about the hundred year storms in the 80’s? My, how time flies!
Don't forget about the other 100 year storm from 2015 or so.
Exactly this guy definitely isn’t a native we’ve had these type floods several times .
And in the late 60's.
@@billyturner1600 I don't like that term. Fake is subjective. There is no truth; there is reality and the way people perceive it but one person's truth is not everyone's truth. But I agree that the news is sensationalist so always do your own research.
@@billyturner1600 fake is not the same as not true
I bet that whole desert smelled amazing after the rain. The mesquite, pinon and creosote.
We just moved out to Scottsdale from Chicago, so it's really great to see what a real monsoon season can be. The storm clouds over the McDowell area were a beautiful sight yesterday. I wanted to drive out to the desert to see what it was like, but thought better not. Thanks for the video so I could see what goes on out there.
@Bryan Lashbrook WRONG. 'Haboob' is an arabic term meaning "to blow" or "blowing". A haboob is a huge violent sweeping dust storm and /or sandstorm. "The term "haboob" originated as a description for wind and sandstorms/duststorms in central and northern Sudan, especially around the Khartoum area, where the average number is about 24 per year"(glossary of meteorology)
@Bryan Lashbrook
If there are more than 1 are they called haboobies?
It would be nice if that water would end up in Lake Mead or Powell.
Not going to happen south of both of those lakes
Phoenix is downstream of Lake Powell on the Salt. And we're well south of Lake Mead. Our water goes south, but I don't know what reservoirs are in the south western part of AZ.
Where does it end up?
@@catherinelhammond7578 Colorado river. im not sure if it above or below the last dam.
Yes ride the water in rubber raft! Make video and go with the flow! This would be most fun thing!
GREAT VIDEO. YOU ARE SOAKED AND I AM STOKED WATCHING YOUR VIDEO. I LIVE IN WHETSTONE AZ. NO COLD DAYS AND NO HOT NIGHTS.
“…Arizona has a stupid motorist law…” that if you are stranded in barricaded flood waters you must pay the rescue bill? Doesn’t sound like a stupid law to me.
The "Stupid" refers to the motorist, not the law.
Wait I think the word stupid refers to the motorist not the law. Ambiguous adjective had me going.
I see what you did there 😂
Exactly so. Great law
It's a law for "stupid motorists". Guess you didn't pay attention - maybe that's what the law is for!
something about the rushing water is so relaxing! Thank you for not constantly talking over the video, you add just the perfect amount of commentary!
Rain is always much needed in Arizona
Especially when living here so long we rarely get any rain.... it's beautiful
So glad you guys got some rain! We need some up here in idaho so bad. Wildfires all around us yesterday. They got most of them under control but there is no rain in sight. Hope some comes soon. Great channel!
We need every drop of this water.
Keep it coming !
Great video Jeff! Moved here September 2020. Our first monsoon experience. Love it!!
Really awesome video! So glad it popped up on my Facebook feed. In Tucson here. This weekend has been wild!
The reservoirs need refilling. To my mind a Thunder Lighting and rain storm is South Eastern Arizona during the summer is a beautiful thing. Thanks for the the video.
Glad to see Arizona get some much needed water! Great video! Thanks!
Skeeters gonna be out like crazy now....
They are now. I hate it!
Not really all that water will be soaked up by the ground before long
@@erikrobles5727 mosquito larvae hatch in 24-48 hours. They don't need long haha.
best season we have ....monsoon season, some decent rain, lightning thunder......awesome, got to love it, but yeah DON"T go through washes, they can take you with them
Do not fear the water! Get in rubber rafts, and go with the flow! You will like it!
Great video! Thanks! These rains are such a blessing.
How beautiful is the desert when it rains.
Same in Tucson. I heard Flagstaff was really bad. Also noticed pages of home listings in Flagstaff in the last few days which is unusual. They want out now because of floods. Great video Jeff.
They have much slides in Flagstaff because of the museum fire
Up here in snowflake and show low got it too
It was pretty crazy out in surprise today; it was just pouring for hours straight.
Sure was!
RH JOhnson over in sun city west was about knee deep. Across from the crooked putter that lake appears to tripled in size
the rains last weekend were fabulous! way more please!
Great video thank you I’m loving the monsoons they are so cool and much needed rain!’ I’ve never heard thunder that shakes the ground and the lightening omg what a beautiful show!! Gods country bless Arizona
It rains so "Much" in AZ that MOST wiper blades weld to the windshield until the first time they get used and the wiper splits into two pieces,,,we get maybe 20 days of Rain in a year
20 if we're lucky haha
My goodness.
in the last 24 years, yeah been a serious drought. supossed to go back into wet now, for 20 years.
I took my rubber blades of and covered the metal with fabric Incase I accidently hit the switch. I would wait untill it was going to rain before putting them on. They never lasted a summer baking in the sun......try a cheap long sock from .99 store
@@Rivenburg-xd5yf I sure hope so.
Same in Tucson. The Rillito River was over flowing in places
I live in Peoria Az . My husband and I never watch TV together . Ever since we found your channel we watch your videos in the livingroom big screen.
We snuggle now and watch a video of yours every night. Thank you!
Nani, y’all behave yourselves, ya hear? ❤️ from Alabama
Thanks for taking us where we shouldn't go. Glad you are safe.
It's awesome 😁we needed the rain 🐸our livestock's need water & trees need water...thank u Lord 🐸
AMEN!
Pools and lawns use most of AR. Water and two hour bath showers.
Not even that big a storm. Just a little running water. Pretty normal it’s just been dry for a few years
Not correct who broke the record so much water
May have broke a spot record somewhere of some type but certainly not a 100 year flood. I’ve lived in AZ for 60 years and have seen a bunch more water. I did enjoy the video but it didn’t look scary. Nothing I wouldn’t cross on a moped. 😜
I've been here 20 years and never saw a monsoon rain that goes on at full intensity hour after hour after hour. The water filled my pool to overflowing and the water came up 4 inches to my backdoor. This storm was intense. And I don't live near a wash. I'm in your average suburban community and travel was impossible for hours. Flash flood warnings were hitting my mobile phone every hour urging residents to stay put wherever they were.
Thx for the update
Thank you for sharing! Miss the desert.
I remember back in 2002, I moved out to AZ. I had never seen something like a monsoon rain, being from Utah. I saw a dumpster floating down the street on Shay BLVD. I couldn't stop laughing
Thank God this whole state desperately needed rain!!!!
Great video thanks for sharing beautiful landscapes love Arizona
What a great look at the desert country under Moonsoon storms. Excellent video, thank you for going out there.
Hope and pray that everyone stays safe. Never understood WHY people insist on driving thru arroyos and water knowing that they can possibly drown. Stay alive and turn around. I refused to drive thru anything that I knew was dangerous
Cool story bro
They never died before😡
Yes, even if you can see the road people have to account for the force & speed of the water - which they never do. Guess everyone slept thru physics class!
In the Yuma Foothills, I lived along the Fortuna Wash(1993-2008)...25 foot of my backyard above the normally dry wash gone...$50,000 of huge rocks, concrete, rip rap needed along 150 ft, 25 foot high bank, 3 foot closer, my indoor swimming pool would be gone! Scary, I thought my 15 years in Malibu was the end to this crap! Thanks for making this video ....
Yuma had flash flooding?
@@tacocruiser4238 The Fortuna Wash went clear over I-8 , I lived about a mile and a half upstream from I-8, along Ironwood Drive facing the mountains. Awesome place no homes were built yet across the wash. When I moved in 73 from the beach to 1000 ft above in a Malibu Cyn, a month later, a huge brush fire nearly burned down my home...a welcome to Arizona, however I LOVE ARIZONA!
@@kinhason46 Did this happen recently? I haven't heard about any flooding in Yuma. I know Yuma is typically much drier than Phoenix.
@@tacocruiser4238 No in the early 1990s. Yuma at the busiest intersection at 16th St & 4th Avenue used to flood all the time when it rained. We moved to Yuma from Cali in 1992, bought home in August '93...Yes, the monsoons don't drop rain to us in the South Western corner. We get 2 weeks of humidity in August...very little rainfall...the sunniest city in the world is Yuma
Wow sorry for your distress. Maybe less pool water
I live in Scottsdale and learned a few things from your video. Very informative and great editing. I'm sharing this video with friends and relatives. You saved me from having to get wet. Thank you!
Thank you. This was so informative.
AZ native here, currently living in the Verde valley. This is probably the coolest/scariest thing about living in Arizona, next to the fires. Even a teenage girl got swept away a couple days ago by these waters and they're still looking. But I do love the coolness the storms bring, but at dangerous cost for sure. Living here gives you a different kind of toughness that most other states seem to lack.
I don't know about a teenager but I know they're still looking for a 4-year-old little girl that was swept away by water so sad!
@@janetrhodes8349 that sucks! It happens every storm it seems, how unfortunate
@@janetrhodes8349 that sucks! It happens every storm it seems, how unfortunate
Try out a Wyoming winter in the windy country...wind chill of 50 below with snow drifts 7' high...that's tough & why I moved away 32 yrs ago.
Bubble….. What a horrific tragedy! I send my sincere condolences to that precious teenager’s family. God bless everyone. Love from Alabama.
God is showing the world his opinion on the "water shortage"
Correctly so
There IS a water shortage/drought/record breaking heat thruout the West, but since YOU know what God is thinking…when will the hard working ranchers/farmers be able to recover their horrific losses from the drought?
If there is no water shortage (drought) why is the west burning and aquafers empty.
@@chrisclinton8949 well, here's a theory, because thee aquifers are being sucked dry for supply to all those underground bunkers they(higher echelons of society) are blasting out for themselves, once this earth is dry and barren and void. Thus the sonic booms no one seems to explain and the many quakes around the world. So if a mere pheasant, such as myself, could dream up such nonsense, what do you suppose evil could dream up and succeed?.
Great video. I love rainy days in the desert. Desert flowers really bloom after the rain.
You got some beautiful shots of this! What a good video.
A foot of rushing water can carry away most cars and two feet will carry away just about any SUV. There is NO WAY to determine the depth or speed of floodwaters just by looking at it, especially water filled with sediment. Good day/days to call off from work and stay home.
Nice thing about being retired - we just cozy up inside our home and watch the show. 😋
Less than a foot.
Water is truly an amazing force some people are not aware of while others defiantly deny as they dare to drive the flooded areas. I have one acquaintance who, in a hurry, dared to go through a swift flood to get home, only to be carried into a telephone pole. Even what seems like a couple of inches of water can cause the vehicle to hydroplane as a closer friend of mine experienced when she hydroplaned into a telephone pole (also).
@@MrJest2 tell that guy in the golf cart to go back home . Bingo is canceled 😞
We so needed this monsoon afternoon the last 2 years of non-soon, but man I've had a bad migraine until about now. The pressure finally went away and it's cleared up.
You got hot hard out in Cave creek!
I had a headache too.
Jill and Butterfly,: I’m sorry you have those headaches, I know how you feel. Before storms I get headaches too and my doctor once suspected the barometric pressure and all the microscopic pollens and dust might be causing headaches. So ever since, I started taking a decongestant like Benadryl and it really does help me. Stay well. Hugs from alabama .
Geniuea hen tea or gully grass
I'm loving every second of it. Bring us more!
Thank you for your video. You pointed out quite clearly the dangerous areas. and even how the drought has affected plant life. You truly are a wonderful narrator, and do look forward to seeing more of your works. If I may add, it is so wonderful to see how you put your heart into your work. 'Tis rare these days. Thank you so much.
Lived in Arizona 15 yrs. Was never bored, lol. Have lived in NW Oklahoma now for 12+. Miss Arizona, but, here I'll stay.
Was born and raised in Az. Just moved to OK a couple months ago. Now I’m just making sure I can make it to the tornado shelter in time, if need be! 😳
It's been cloudy all week here in Mesa! And my friend in Tucson they got flooding!
Thank you.
Another fantastic video, nicely done
I should be moved out there later next month for good. Can’t wait. 😊
As will my wife and I.
Me too and the wife can’t wait
Be prepared for really high water and electric bills as the Colorado River watershed dries up.
@@drinaz4070 I’m moving from Southern California, my son and daughter live in Scottsdale, their bills are SIGNIFICANTLY lower than mine here.
Welcome 😁
We used to get rains/floods like that growing up in Southern California in the 70's, mostly remnants of hurricanes from off the Pacific.
Thanks for the ride man!
The rain is beautiful --thanks for your coverage!
Been raining off and on for 3 days straight in Mesa. They say it's going to let up for a couple of days and then start up again mid-week. What's funny is I flood irrigated my yard for 45 minutes while it was raining, but my fruit trees will take all they can get! My ground soaks it up like a sponge.
Also Mesa here! What a deluge! The previous storm broke two branches off my Palo verde, snd i haven’t finished sawing it yet… now a major branch broke off one of my orange trees…
That is great news for you. Better for. your fruit trees too. They would be doing a ' happy dance' if trees could. Ha.
@@FawziaTung Sorry about that. Be careful out there, your friends in Alabama ❤️ 🇺🇸 ❤️
The humidity is mind blowing! I love the storms and rain, but is this lingering 80% humidity necessary? Isn't this a big reason I left Ohio? 😂
@@thescarletgraywitch8052 I live in PA. Hate humidity
This tempas was a godsend
Absolutely gorgeous with the 🌧 rain.
Thank you for this. I just found your channel.
I live in Globe, AZ. The wash was so full and running so fast earlier. I moved here in 2019 and I'm always amazed by it
Record about 8 hours of audio of the flooding water and package for sale/distribution. Good fast sleeping sound.
Wow thank you for your Channel update God bless you 🙏
Excellent vid' great 🎶 really enjoyed it!👍👍👍
I bet the air is so fresh now. Hopefully much of the water is captured in our dams
That won't be happening dear our state is ran by REPUBLICANTS OR WONT
@@davidhubbard7573 😂😂 ours (CA) is run by DemocRats. They created a water crisis so they can charge us for the water. I get to see our water run straight to the ocean, at least these last few years 😱 next they are thinking of going after Californians who have water wells! Lord help us 🙏🏼
@@lindaleach5269 um, the salt has several very large dams, the agua fria has the MASSIVE lake pleasent dam, everything goes to the colorado after that. not sure if its, above or below the last dam.
@@Denise23451 it hasnt rained, so how are dems responsible. Corporate farms are sucking up the aquafer water.
It is
I am so greatful for the Rain The West was drying up ! Out land needed it. The animals needed it. The trees and bugs and Birds needed it. We need it 💯🌹
Awesome pictures of the floods and rainstorms.
I would be dancing in the rain❤️❤️
I'm near Casa Grande. Our roads in our town are more flooded than I have ever seen before and I've been out here for 12 years.
This is what makes the Sonoran Desert so interesting.
I just wish the Mojave Desert could get more of this type of weather...
Unfortunately, the Mojave desert is drier than the Sonoran. Thus the reason that the Mojave desert cannot support the saguaro.
@@crazeyjoe But it can support the Joshua Tree. Why cant the Sonora Desert support the Joshua Tree?
@@tacocruiser4238 The Sonoran desert is not arid enough to support the Joshua tree. The Saguaro stores a lot of water in its "arms." So it needs to have a "wet season" (monsoon) in order to do so and survive. A wet season like the Sonoran desert has would over saturate the Joshua tree. There is a reason why different deserts will have differing plant life.
@@crazeyjoe I appreciate that information. Thanks ,
@@e.conboy4286 My pleasure.
Awesome video, thanks
Great video I live in Arizona never saw this flash floods. Thank you
California would love some of that rain.
looks like my stomping grounds! I live off dynamite and 152ndamd work the cave creek area. . . it was wet!!!
I just bought a lot at 142nd and Ashler Hills. Hopefully will be building a home there in the next year.
@@goldenbeltroofingexteriors8270 that's great!!!! welcome to the neighborhood 😁👍
@@Shaggyone thanks man!
Love yah videos thanks
Since I was a little boy, I have always loved nature's light shows. Thunder and lightning in a downpour is just downright exciting. I especially love it while out camping. I'm a primitive style camper and rain drops on canvass is one of the most relaxing sounds with which to fall asleep. I'm planning on retiring in the Pheonix - Tuscon area this April or May. I look forward to Monsoon season.
Love this channel ❤️ I always enjoy the content!🌵