Sudden flash flood wave fills a creek bank-to-bank in seconds - multiple camera angles
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- čas přidán 5. 03. 2012
- stormhighway.com/floodwaves.shtml This video shows why they're called "flash" floods! A strong flash flood wave caused by a stationary thunderstorm in the West Virginia mountains rushes down Mill Creek at Green Sulphur Springs, WV on August 6, 2005, filling the streambed bank-to-bank in a few seconds. I had anticipated a slow rise in the water from the storm upstream, and set up two tripoded cameras in the creek bed to do a time-lapse. However, no time lapse was needed! I had to rush to get my cameras to higher ground. The last two clips show the wave arriving much farther downstream, by which time it had weakened considerably due to the wider streambed (thanks to several mergers with tributaries).
Read more about flash flood waves at: stormhighway.com/floodwaves.shtml
More extreme weather footage at stormhighway.com/footage/
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You did a great job shooting this. I hope when others see it, they will not let themselves get caught unawares by a flash flood. It shows, it just takes a few seconds for the creek to become dangerous to cross or be on the bank of it.
Why do I enjoy watching this so much?
I'm always amazed at how fast the water rises -- literally just seconds!
It's really terrifying when you're out driving in a thunderstorm and suddenly you can't see the road anymore and you can feel your car lifting up.
You can tell by the color of the water that it is silt laden runoff. Great vid.
It happened to me once. I got the heck out of there really fast!
Outrageous. I've seen this kind of thing in the Mojave; the arroyo dry as a bone & few minutes later a raging monster torrent. Like certain death if you fell into it. Crazy.
You really got amazing views of incoming water. Great work
I watch this happen in Cochrans Mill outside of Palmetto Georgia 15 years ago, we left with full grown pine trees being swept from the embankments. In 2 minutes, it went from being a calm creek, to a dangerous force that took out the beams to the trailhead bridge.
The awesome power of fast flowing water, so beautiful yet so deadly if you are not careful. Thanks for sharing, glad you managed to save your equipment 😉😀👍
I had a small creek behind my house, lets just say the water was 5 feet from my house
That escalated alarmingly quick.
Woah from Creek to Grand Rapids White Water great filming thanks
the lake i used to live by got drained so it could get cleaned. the outlet creek got cleaned before hand to help with water flow. i went and started playing in the creek and they cut the dam a quarter mile from where i was and the flow picked up. the fish started to come up stream after the flow doubled so i netted them up.
I'm in THAT part of CZcams again...
Need to have a warning disclaimer "Warning watching this video may make you want to pee"
MeteoMarkcom just posted a notice: RAIN over the eastern one third of the USA is in the forecast beginning the evening of Monday, February 18th and into Tuesday. The NEMO snow could suddenly melt and flow into the MOSTLY empty river beds at racing speeds. Many towns, especially those at low elevations and those located at the river bends, could soon be having horrendous flooding. Thank you for posting this video. Please see the 2013 Global Flood evidence on my playlists.
Very impressive. Scary to see the power of water and what can do. Good job
Very cool video, thanks for posting!
no need to time lapse a flash flood, almost instantaneous.
it bring back some memories.. used to swim in a river with cousins.. and aunt would shout.. "watch for the head of the flood".." and "if u hear a rumbling sound, run for the riverbannks or higher grounds away from the river"...but nowadays no clean river i can swim.. if only people learn to love nature...such a beautiful place to live.
when there is a flash flood or tsunami. the only thing you can do is get out of it's way go to higher ground.
This happens in Hawaii all the time.
Except it is much quicker and more water.
Some sound like a train coming.
Sorry everybody I left the garden hose on, again.
desertrcaz what kind of garden hose u even have???
It’s a 750 inch diameter city gray water disposal line
Awesome vid!
Very good video. Hello from Malaysia!!
Water is so powerful. Awesome!
Initially, I thought this was fake, or a dam. How wrong I was. The shape of the riverbed/falls, is very unusual. Too flat and square. Nature, creates really strange shapes. Beautiful.
looks similar to the Yorkshire dales where the rock is limestone.
Beautiful video
Is there such a thing as a "Slow" flash flood?
+skinner B Yes, run the video in slow motion, that will be a slow flash flood.
excellent footage.
Action starts at about 0:42
Rather than a flash flood that should be how it looks all year round maybe a bit more Meandering and Weir pool manipulation but that level of water is pretty good
Good video Dan
when you get taken out by the flash flood because you were filming in the middle of the creek then can you put that on youtube.
Great video! The onscreen label of your website has bad font and isn't readable on anything smaller than a computer screen.
amazing the power of nature
This is nature's way.
I've wondered the same thing myself. What isn't Mississippi water piped to Arizona?
so did the nazgul try to cross the river?
anyone ever suggest harnessing the water east and bringing it the dry west? oh I guess I just did
Reminds me of filling up a bath tub lol
You should build a dam, harness some of that power for a lake, or microhydro.
i subed it was simply that good
So calm and serene 😂😂😂😂... a flash flood always carries a ton of debris, yet I see nothing whatsoever. I believe this might simply be a high water level controlled release from a reservoir...
They sure were
starting at 2:01 It went from almost bond dry to Niagara falls in seconds! (I know not quite that bad but close. )
I bet after the water recedes would be a good time to look for gold, yes ?
Negligible amount
Impressive.
Amazing !
This was a gradual build up. They can be much worse. Where the first thing you see is wall of debris crashing towards you. Not little branches, but huge trees, sections of bridges etc. They will tear through anything in their path.
An excellent video. ♡ T.E.N.
Those two words you use, flash and flood. I don't think they mean what you think they mean.
Find any fossils in that bed?
Great time lapse.....oh, wait.
Cool.
Where is it?
Unlike those gradual flash floods.
When water wants to, water will. We don't get a say.
Cool video but if your in place camera rolling literally waiting for it it’s not a ‘sudden’ flash flood
It doesn't have to rain. Many dams do periodic releases.
Yeah we can just truck it out there :P
That's not a flood. That's the creek rising.
That is a flash flood, not a slow rise. I watch the water level of my creek and it does not come up that fast at all. Unless there is a flash flood. Than it rises 30, but like a bath. They are all different, but that is definitely fast and would be considered a 'Flash flood.'
I think we need a bigger boat
I know, right! They show the exciting part of the story, the sweeping away of the nazul by the huge torrent. They leave out the part where 13 innocent family members were swept away to their doom further downstream.
You've got to be kitting me
Oh no
We good
lol, my first thoughts exactly
Uh... what? Let us know if you ever film an actual flash flood.
Seth Berger what's that supposed to mean?
Seth Berger you must be thinking of a debris flow
Some nazgul were trying to get across I bet.
flash flood but no debris
Thats bedrock. And good chance there is gold in them cracks
Oh so it was a "sudden" flash flood? Quite possibly the most pointless distinction ever made.😅
Pretty neet
Is that what you guys call a flood ?
peter Last not really
Its not reall
Amazing 😺😁 😛🤭😍👌
Why didn't the men take her serious? Answer by the time the men got to her she was flying
O.O
Juicy lucy
O_O
Honey, honey , the toilets overflowing again ........!
Flood regime.
It is not called a creek. It is called a valley. Look it up in the English dictionary.
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