Biggest Flash Floods Ever! - Cataract Canyon UT

BEWARE OF FLASH FLOODS!

Although it may look like it, these are not preexisting waterfalls. These side canyons are usually dry as a bone. Normally Cataract Canyon is a very dry place, receiving less than 10 inches of rain a year. Sometimes, though, the canyon gets half the year's rain in about one day. When that happens, violent flash floods are created, and in this case, unbelievable waterfalls formed in these side canyons.

I estimate that the falls are each about the size of Lower Yellowstone Falls (308 ft.).

Sorry about the quality and the lack of actual film. We were in sort of a hurry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_flood

*I don't own the music*

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[TheNineveh]

not the biggest flash floods ever.

[zeppelingitis]

@TheNineveh

Well, it's just typical hyperbole to gain viewership.

And although their flow wasn't the biggest, the flash floods did happen to fall over 500 ft. cliffs, which was pretty amazing.

[zeppelingitis]

@TheNineveh Sometimes hyperbole is needed to attract viewers ;)

[cabo02]

Get out the metal detector.

[zeppelingitis]

@cabo02

Good idea. Next time.

[tackywacky99]

beatles?

[zeppelingitis]

@tackywacky99 Yep, One of those B-side recordings I think.

[bettydaw1970]

chocolate milk waterfall :)

[Ghstwn]

Without a doubt,... the biggest flash flood to ever cross the face of the earth in all it's history.

(Don't you just love the titles Morons come up with?) LOL!

[CHAPAPA96]

nice choice in music :)

[gssg9]

If you change the tital to flash flood goes over 500ft cliffs you will get more views and less thumbs down. Good video none the less.

[revis23]

ggggregg, thank goodness for those damns or the entire western US would not have water, electricity, irrigation, etc... Not to mention the amount of revenue Lake Powell and Lake Mead generate. Imagine what would have happened during the last 10 years of drought if we didn't have these water storages. As for the silt, the damns are routinely opened to simulate flooding and carry/stir up the sediment. Spent much time at Powell? You'd feel differently if you had.

[gggreggg]

the spaniards named the colorado river the "red river" because of the reddish silt carried in it. until the dams were built, the whole river was, indeed, red. the slack water behind the dams allows the silt to settle out to the detriment of the whole river ecosystem.

[yappertrap]

thank goodness you put music on this. i didn't want to hear the raw power of nature.

[TheNineveh]

@zeppelingitis Oh yes the water falls and volume of water was impressive.

[tekjansen09]

Fake

[3Mudbone1]

@gggreggg Species of all type DO go extinct! Always have, always will, get over it you whiner!