I was camping 20yrs ago in Yosemite National Park with my cousins and uncle when I was visiting on holiday from Scotland. One night there was a massive thunderstorm and the creek which was about 150’ away and 30’ below us suffered a flash flood which brought the water to within 20’ of our campsite. It was frightening and thrilling at the same time to see what Mother Nature can do. The speed and noise of the water was incredible and the flood lasted for about 3hrs before it went as quickly as it came. No lives were lost, fortunately.
Having spent time in this beautiful area, and being a lifelong Arizonan, I must say you have the prettiest mud I've ever seen. Seriously, I have been involved in cleanups in the past, And red sand is way easier to deal with than black clay. Thanks for the good quality video.
I was in that slot Canyon with my wife on a tour, and the floor to ceiling (where the water is flowing) is over 45 feet. The Navajo woman told me the canyon floods at 60mph and will go from floor to ceiling in 30 seconds
They are interesting from afar, but all I could think of is that’s how the 10 German tourists died in Antelope.I can’t even believe the tour guides were able to survive something like that. Somehow the tied into the sides of the canyon.
Wow! So glad it didn't get worse. We were there less than a week later, the property owner of lower Antelope Canyon was actually doing repairs to the steps and ladders that were damaged, half the slot canyon was closed so we didn't reach the end, again, so glad it wasn't worse. Thanks for sharing.
It would be cool to take a picture from the same spot in a slot canyon after each significant flood, and then make the pictures into a time lapse showing the erosion.
Someone should attach a camera up near the top of the walls or on that bridge somewhere right before a flash flood and record the canyon filling up with water that gets higher.
As a wannabe meteorologist, I love this. Don't love the damage it does, but it's amazing to watch. I grew up in Los Angeles, I saw my first flash flood not far from this area (near Wikieup on Hwy 93). It was that same pink mud. As a high school graduation gift in 1981, my dad took me on an EPIC road trip across the western U.S. GREAT memories with all that spectacular scenery everywhere!
Thanks for "filming" and posting this; I've added this to my large Arizona playlist, to the Antelope Canyon/Page section, to share this with others. Thanks again.
We were on that road in May, 2012. Sooo glad we missed this excitement, but thanks for posting the video so quickly. Only last night we saw one of your videos on Discovery Channel about the debris flows. You're doing a great job. Be careful! but you already know that.
Superb video! Having stood above the lip of Antelope Canyon and looked down where it runs under the highway bridge, it is awesome to think of the violent swirls and scours of water sweeping through that beautiful tortured slot.
I guess it's this amazing flush of abrasive sand & stones that shaped antelope canyon along ages. Amazing and beautiful phenomenon. Thanks for posting that one.
I did tours out there for 2 years. It was amazing to see how the canyon changed from flood to flood. I have seen it change over 5-8 feet just between two floods. It was like a new canyon each time it flashed. I would think these floods are definitely lowering the floor.
Visited upper antelope canyon and the guide showed us a feature called the cats head , went back 3 years later and you couldn't see it because the canyon floor had changed and you didn't get the same perspective
You wouldn't want to slip and fall in that volume of water travelling down the canyon, it's an incredible amount.! Is that a hurricane in the distance at 4:10 or so?
I've been binge watching these Lahars (Debris flow) of different videographers for about an hour and it just amazes me how much water can be taken up into clouds. The power of the water is amazing. I watched a 150 ton boulder as large as a Volkswagen bug or bigger being swept along like God was playing marbles.
Yeah! With all that mud and clay, you couldn't miss! Just go getcha some mud and clay after it dries out, add water, mix it up, and fire it in the nearest kiln! Man, that's a LOAD of mud and clay left in that parking lot! Fire up the kilns, Bertha... it's pottery making time!!!
@rankinstudio Hey Dave. Your videos of the flash-floods were my motivation to visit Utah and Arizona. I've been at the bottom of one of these slots and fully understand what you're saying about them being very deep. But a "before-during-after" comparison (a dissolve if you're cinematically gifted) would speak volumes. My particular encounter with them was at Waterholes Canyon, S on 89 from Horseshoe Bend.
i drove this road back in 1989 when my buddy and i drove my truck out here, it was raining and the road was the water channel which freaked me out being a yankee and a teenager i just followed the car in front of me...it was maybe 4-6 inches deep in spots, nothing like this, but i could see that all the water was going to be in the road which is the lowest spot for miles...which is why we build roads out here in those places cause they have the least amount of obstacles(in the dry season at least)...i fell in love with the west that year
I lived in AZ for 6 years, and saw some amazing flash floods, way before cell phones and the days when anyone had video capabilities...this is typical, yet very few people understand the danger, still. Pay attention to those "Careful Flash Flood" signs, friends. Lives can be saved. To get and post such a great video of this flood is very cool!!!
Page is a tourist destination in which 3 landmarks, Lake Powell, the Horseshoe Bend of the Colorado River, and the Antelope Slot Canyon are all in this area. I went there last October, and 90% of the population is Navajo Indian. Can't wait to head there this October to take more photos of the area. I would never go there during monsoon season though.
Things have changed there. I was there in the 1990's and there wasn't anything on #89. You had to go up an incline to get to Page. And every time I look at flooding upstream from Mead, I wonder that is there some sort of program with DOI as to silt management? Loss of storage? There's a serious drop-off just west of #89 into Glen Canyon.
Thank you for this video!! My family home is on Navajo Dr. right above where you are filming; I haven't been home in awhile and I am so homesick! I grew up here, 4th grade through high school and this is my favorite place on earth! Thanks again, so much!!
I am from Scotland and Page is also my favourite town in the USA stayed in a B&B in South Navajo drive for 2 weeks exploring the area , balloon festival, upper and lower antelope ,rafting on the Colorado ,the dam tour ,North rim of the canyon ,monument valley ,etc etc the whole area is awesome ,oh and nearly forgot the windy Mesa.
1:40 can you show us when the slot canyon is normal? 3:12 they put up a sign “ River Closed til further notice”. 4:37 you mean “ it was a river that turned into a place” the river has always been there, but no one knew or cared.
Freakin awesome! Thanks for videoing and uploading. I had no idea that Antelope Canyon ever filled up completely. I got gas at that Maverick back in 2009!
Utterly amazed at this, since we walked down Little Antelope Canyon on a dry, clear, glorious sunshiny day in April 2013. Heeded the warnings about flash floods etc and had a Guide, but to see this taken but a few months later is horrifyingly scary. Thanks for posting/sharing.
It's one thing to hear this on the news as we enjoyed a nice day up in SLC, totally another to see it like this! That slot canyon was insane as it emptied...
I think that The Strid in the UK basically looks like Antelope Canyon underneath, just different types of rock. Probably very similar depth and a lot wider, too. Except for it is a constantly running river vs Antelope Canyon flooding just happens during heavy rains.
I got off the lake from the Antelope SMP about half an hour after all this. From the lake we saw a ton of rain hit Page, and tried to hurry back. We did see a ton of the flooding under that bridge though, which was wild. Water has incredible power.
To anyone wondering flash floods happen basically every time there is significant rain in AZ. Not to this degree all the time obviously but the ground is so dry and hard that it takes forever to absorb water so if it rains for more than 10 mins its start flooding
Best damn dam tour I ever been on was right here. Glen Canyon Dam is a big ass dam. Took an elevator 50 some stories down into the bowels of that thing. Leaks like a sombitch down there. And that bridge you cross into Page, AZ. was real damn scary walking across. Make your eyes bug out walking across that one. Loooong way down.
We were just in Page last week and I recognize the scenes in the video. We purchased gas from that gas station. Page is a very nice looking and well maintained small rural town and I didn't see any signs of all this devastation from 4 years ago. I would guess that flash floods like this are quite rare in Page?
David, I do NOT remember! My husband was "surfing" the channels, and he came upon one of yours in which you are describing how the water pushes the massive debris collection in front of it. He had been watching a rerun of Nik Wallenda's tightrope walk over Grand Canyon. It's possible that it was in conjunction with that. Our viewing time was between 8 and 10 p.m. CDT.
The source of the flood (the "river") was only about 500 feet from my apartment, it swamped out the road that connects my apartments to Highway 89 but they did not need to close the road.
I was camping 20yrs ago in Yosemite National Park with my cousins and uncle when I was visiting on holiday from Scotland. One night there was a massive thunderstorm and the creek which was about 150’ away and 30’ below us suffered a flash flood which brought the water to within 20’ of our campsite. It was frightening and thrilling at the same time to see what Mother Nature can do. The speed and noise of the water was incredible and the flood lasted for about 3hrs before it went as quickly as it came. No lives were lost, fortunately.
Having spent time in this beautiful area, and being a lifelong Arizonan, I must say you have the prettiest mud I've ever seen. Seriously, I have been involved in cleanups in the past, And red sand is way easier to deal with than black clay. Thanks for the good quality video.
I was in that slot Canyon with my wife on a tour, and the floor to ceiling (where the water is flowing) is over 45 feet. The Navajo woman told me the canyon floods at 60mph and will go from floor to ceiling in 30 seconds
Bet you wanted to leave soon after being told that!
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Hence the name flash flood
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Yes. Walkwd it too! Amazing. Do not mess with nature it always wins!
It's so cool I actually got to witness flash floods @ this scale. Thank you for the vid! As scary as they get they are truly fascinating.
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I hope to have the opportunity to witness this one day!
What did you do with all that time you saved by typing @ instead of "at" ?
Fascinating just like watching tornadoes!
They are interesting from afar, but all I could think of is that’s how the 10 German tourists died in Antelope.I can’t even believe the tour guides were able to survive something like that. Somehow the tied into the sides of the canyon.
hey Dave, that 1st scene at Antelope Canyon, how about editing in a dry day comparison shot?
i was about to say the same thing
Wow! So glad it didn't get worse. We were there less than a week later, the property owner of lower Antelope Canyon was actually doing repairs to the steps and ladders that were damaged, half the slot canyon was closed so we didn't reach the end, again, so glad it wasn't worse. Thanks for sharing.
It would be cool to take a picture from the same spot in a slot canyon after each significant flood, and then make the pictures into a time lapse showing the erosion.
The erosion of the canyon is actually very slow. Really unnoticeable. The sand levels in the canyon can change dramatically between floods.
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It would be a time lapse very long in the making.
+FLPhotoCatcher very awesome idea
+FLPhotoCatcher Yeah, like a few hundred years.
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Someone should attach a camera up near the top of the walls or on that bridge somewhere right before a flash flood and record the canyon filling up with water that gets higher.
As a wannabe meteorologist, I love this. Don't love the damage it does, but it's amazing to watch. I grew up in Los Angeles, I saw my first flash flood not far from this area (near Wikieup on Hwy 93). It was that same pink mud. As a high school graduation gift in 1981, my dad took me on an EPIC road trip across the western U.S. GREAT memories with all that spectacular scenery everywhere!
I've been to Antelope Canyon. It's amazing seeing it full of water. Too bad you couldn't get a shot of it exiting.
Thanks for "filming" and posting this; I've added this to my large Arizona playlist, to the Antelope Canyon/Page section, to share this with others. Thanks again.
Very impressive! I've enjoyed viewing your flash flood videos for quite some time, and this one is pretty insane!
We were on that road in May, 2012. Sooo glad we missed this excitement, but thanks for posting the video so quickly. Only last night we saw one of your videos on Discovery Channel about the debris flows. You're doing a great job. Be careful! but you already know that.
Great vids Rankin! l love watching these kinds of things. Hope everyone was ok.
Superb video! Having stood above the lip of Antelope Canyon and looked down where it runs under the highway bridge, it is awesome to think of the violent swirls and scours of water sweeping through that beautiful tortured slot.
I guess it's this amazing flush of abrasive sand & stones that shaped antelope canyon along ages. Amazing and beautiful phenomenon. Thanks for posting that one.
No, God did it.
I did tours out there for 2 years. It was amazing to see how the canyon changed from flood to flood. I have seen it change over 5-8 feet just between two floods. It was like a new canyon each time it flashed. I would think these floods are definitely lowering the floor.
Well then why did you say it wouldn't show much difference in a timelapse ? Just wondering, this video is quite an awesome spectacle, thanks ! 🇨🇦
Visited upper antelope canyon and the guide showed us a feature called the cats head , went back 3 years later and you couldn't see it because the canyon floor had changed and you didn't get the same perspective
We love your videos. This is amazing; we appreciate your eye for what's important, and your sense of perfect commentary. Thank you.
I think they already got 89 opened again. They make quick work of that stuff. I'm curious about damage costs.
Nice video. Well done. I appreciate the decent narrative and steady cam.
That's insane. I hiked Antelope Canyon in '81, it's hard to imagine the volume of water dropped from that storm. Great video - thanks!
That is so amazing! I am a serious flood enthusiast and would have loved to have been there.
You wouldn't want to slip and fall in that volume of water travelling down the canyon, it's an incredible amount.! Is that a hurricane in the distance at 4:10 or so?
Fricken INSANE that slot canyon.... Great job man.... Water scares me the most...
Thanks man.....
Good video. Thank you. I wonder how long it took to clear highway 89 and whether I will see some of the storm remnants when I visit Page on Wednesday.
2:35 Any idea what is causing that hydraulic? It doesn't appear that anyone would get out of that if someone got swept into it.
Blocked culvert most likely, also the culvert may simply not be big enough to take these kinds of events.
nunayafb I take it you didn't read or understand his comment? He said "the culvert may simply not be big enough to take these kinds of events."
Nice work on filming the flood , can ya get up to Antelope canyon to show the changes ,before and after, at the head of the river ?
what happens afterward for cleanup? snow plow?- that sludge has got to weigh tons
Earth-moving equipment.
I very much appreciate that you know the correct way to film…horizontal! Thank you
That is amazing. My son & I were through there July 9,2013. Looks so powerful. Very scary. Nature is amazing.
I've been binge watching these Lahars (Debris flow) of different videographers for about an hour and it just amazes me how much water can be taken up into clouds. The power of the water is amazing. I watched a 150 ton boulder as large as a Volkswagen bug or bigger being swept along like God was playing marbles.
Appears to be the perfect place to open a terracotta pot shop.
Yeah! With all that mud and clay, you couldn't miss! Just go getcha some mud and clay after it dries out, add water, mix it up, and fire it in the nearest kiln! Man, that's a LOAD of mud and clay left in that parking lot! Fire up the kilns, Bertha... it's pottery making time!!!
Therapeutic Mud Baths as well!
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Or a Navajo Dream Catcher store.
Wow! The entire canyon's underwater! That's insane
Is there video of the cleanup? Must have been quite satisfying to watch.
What happened to the sewer plant next door to the Maverick station? How much other untreated "sediment" from there washed into the Colorado?
@rankinstudio Hey Dave. Your videos of the flash-floods were my motivation to visit Utah and Arizona. I've been at the bottom of one of these slots and fully understand what you're saying about them being very deep. But a "before-during-after" comparison (a dissolve if you're cinematically gifted) would speak volumes. My particular encounter with them was at Waterholes Canyon, S on 89 from Horseshoe Bend.
i drove this road back in 1989 when my buddy and i drove my truck out here, it was raining and the road was the water channel which freaked me out being a yankee and a teenager i just followed the car in front of me...it was maybe 4-6 inches deep in spots, nothing like this, but i could see that all the water was going to be in the road which is the lowest spot for miles...which is why we build roads out here in those places cause they have the least amount of obstacles(in the dry season at least)...i fell in love with the west that year
All the water you see here went through upper. I'm sure it was raging.
I lived in AZ for 6 years, and saw some amazing flash floods, way before cell phones and the days when anyone had video capabilities...this is typical, yet very few people understand the danger, still. Pay attention to those "Careful Flash Flood" signs, friends. Lives can be saved. To get and post such a great video of this flood is very cool!!!
Page is a tourist destination in which 3 landmarks, Lake Powell, the Horseshoe Bend of the Colorado River, and the Antelope Slot Canyon are all in this area. I went there last October, and 90% of the population is Navajo Indian. Can't wait to head there this October to take more photos of the area. I would never go there during monsoon season though.
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Check out Buckskin Gulch too if you like slot canyons.
amazing footage...wonder if other nearby slots/roads got flooded too? thanks for sharing!
Thanks for showing us the forces that formed those amazing slot canyons!
Gotta love Arizona weather. Not a drop of reason where you are, but the washes and canyons are still absolutely raging.
It would be interesting to see what the before and after photos look like in the slot canyon.
where do these rivers of flash flood water terminate? does it just spread out all over the place or does it form a lake? AMAZING Video! What a MESS!
An earlier comment mentioned it ends up in the Colorado River (which according to Google maps, runs nearby)
Holy mother nature! That was both amazing and scaring. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks Ann! Do you recall what program on Discovery aired the footage? I don't recall having leased any video to them recently.
Cheers!
Things have changed there. I was there in the 1990's and there wasn't anything on #89. You had to go up an incline to get to Page. And every time I look at flooding upstream from Mead, I wonder that is there some sort of program with DOI as to silt management? Loss of storage? There's a serious drop-off just west of #89 into Glen Canyon.
I was there in Antelope Canyon in the early summer. Very impressive video!
Thank you for this video!! My family home is on Navajo Dr. right above where you are filming; I haven't been home in awhile and I am so homesick! I grew up here, 4th grade through high school and this is my favorite place on earth! Thanks again, so much!!
I am from Scotland and Page is also my favourite town in the USA stayed in a B&B in South Navajo drive for 2 weeks exploring the area , balloon festival, upper and lower antelope ,rafting on the Colorado ,the dam tour ,North rim of the canyon ,monument valley ,etc etc the whole area is awesome ,oh and nearly forgot the windy Mesa.
1:40 can you show us when the slot canyon is normal?
3:12 they put up a sign “ River Closed til further notice”.
4:37 you mean “ it was a river that turned into a place” the river has always been there, but no one knew or cared.
Great video, we visited Page in the summer of 1984 and the whole area was dry then.
Awesome flash flood - scary and beautiful at the same time 👍 thank you for sharing this amazing video 😊💕
Good work. The water in Antelope Canyon was amazing.
How often is it this bad? I've seen it like this in Winslow. Less mud though.
In thw north we have snow plows. Do you guys have mud plows?
Where is all that water headed to?
Did it take out the bridge or not?
is it still all muddy there ans is the road still closed
Freakin awesome! Thanks for videoing and uploading. I had no idea that Antelope Canyon ever filled up completely. I got gas at that Maverick back in 2009!
I hope your stomach's better now
I am mesmerized by all these videos. The power of mother nature! Thanks for these great vids!!
Nice work guys. thanks for posting
Very impressive. Reminds of the Cherry Creek flood in Denver, 1965 -- there's something about watching trees and big rocks being swept along.
How are you getting out of there 🤔
We just back from here, amazing place!
Utterly amazed at this, since we walked down Little Antelope Canyon on a dry, clear, glorious sunshiny day in April 2013.
Heeded the warnings about flash floods etc and had a Guide, but to see this taken but a few months later is horrifyingly scary.
Thanks for posting/sharing.
Great video, I love monsoon season in Arizona.
I wonder if the slot canyons are completely filled with mud?
I remember that storm I was living in Phoenix at the time and it was crazy there too
How do they clean this up???
Nice vid, would also be nice to see what the canyon looks like without water.
That's crazy, we were there a few months ago & you'll never expect something like this happen to such a hot & dry place. Page is amazing!
I was at that Maverick last August on a road trip. Nice area.
Good video. I can see how the power of water can cut those slot canyons now
It's one thing to hear this on the news as we enjoyed a nice day up in SLC, totally another to see it like this! That slot canyon was insane as it emptied...
I think that The Strid in the UK basically looks like Antelope Canyon underneath, just different types of rock. Probably very similar depth and a lot wider, too. Except for it is a constantly running river vs Antelope Canyon flooding just happens during heavy rains.
I got off the lake from the Antelope SMP about half an hour after all this. From the lake we saw a ton of rain hit Page, and tried to hurry back. We did see a ton of the flooding under that bridge though, which was wild.
Water has incredible power.
David give us an update on the canyon today
How do they clean that up
Really awesome!! Beautiful, but scary just watching it. I'm sure it was great to see it in person! All that power!
To anyone wondering flash floods happen basically every time there is significant rain in AZ. Not to this degree all the time obviously but the ground is so dry and hard that it takes forever to absorb water so if it rains for more than 10 mins its start flooding
Where all this water go? To a river or back into the soil? So powerful and scary.
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Is that a tornado in the background
Nice video, David!
So how do you clean this up, I'd imagine a couple bulldozers and excavators.
Best damn dam tour I ever been on was right here. Glen Canyon Dam is a big ass dam. Took an elevator 50 some stories down into the bowels of that thing. Leaks like a sombitch down there. And that bridge you cross into Page, AZ. was real damn scary walking across. Make your eyes bug out walking across that one. Loooong way down.
What the heck was that noise at 4:50 ? Do they have a riverboat running through there already? 😋
We were just in Page last week and I recognize the scenes in the video. We purchased gas from that gas station. Page is a very nice looking and well maintained small rural town and I didn't see any signs of all this devastation from 4 years ago. I would guess that flash floods like this are quite rare in Page?
How can the DOT build a road with no drainage for flash floods
Anything from Monday's rains?
David, I do NOT remember! My husband was "surfing" the channels, and he came upon one of yours in which you are describing how the water pushes the massive debris collection in front of it. He had been watching a rerun of Nik Wallenda's tightrope walk over Grand Canyon. It's possible that it was in conjunction with that. Our viewing time was between 8 and 10 p.m. CDT.
The source of the flood (the "river") was only about 500 feet from my apartment, it swamped out the road that connects my apartments to Highway 89 but they did not need to close the road.
Whoa this is something we rarely see up in Michigan. Nature is amazing.
Gotta love Monsoon season in the desert!
Omg. It's scary. Is this regular occurrence? Be safe.
Fairly regular. Northern and Southern AZ. We don't get much rain, but when we do, it all comes at once.
Not sure how much development was there back in 2013, but now (2020) that area has been built up quite a bit.
I love the color of that mud. It looks like it would be fun to slosh around in it, but with rubber boots. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing... I never seen Page flooded, I thought this video was amazingly crazy...
WowWWWWW!
thats what makes these canyons so beautiful