Grand Canyon Flash Flood

Every pour over goes from dry to raging in no time

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Grand
• Canyon
• Flash
• Flood

[milkmandan77]

let's see...we're in the bottom of a huge canyon, in the rain, surrounded by 100 raging waterfalls. I KNOW! let's stay at the lowest point possible and film it! charles darwin called this lack of survival mechanisms "thinning of the herd."

[smoothpeople33]

there is all your rain for the year

[CPax87]

What month was this?

[mofraggin]

Despite the amount of runoff coming into the canyon, the Colorado River carries such a volume of water that these waterfalls in comparison are minuscule. Also falling water disperses when faced with friction from the density of air making them seem more ample than they are. The river's height would only rise a couple of centimeters an hour TOPS, making it a narrow escape, yes, so difficult to gain centimeters of altitude an hour. To post this video they'd have to survive, obviously. (cont)

[mofraggin]

@milkmandan77 This would be called lack of obvious observation and common sense skills on your part, a combination that can be lethal in at least one but not limited to: Driving, Walking, Bicycling, Climbing/Descending stairs, Observing a canyon, cooking, cleaning a common surface using bleach and ammonia, maintaining a fire, observing wildlife, standing under lone trees in a thunder storm, being around water any deeper than 7 feet, tainting the earth by way of reproduction, etc.....

[bubblybabs]

Would be truly cool if the people would just shut up....

[PersephonieA1]

I hear popcorn.

[LadyAlcantar]

What an incredible moment caught on camera!

[blueshifter]

thumbs up if this made you want to go pee

[Buuge124]

"Hows the weather Ollie?...."FLOOD!"

[7855waldo]

"Flashly Floodly, intrepid correspondent, here, reporting on the Big Wash!"