We were your neighbours at the Campground 😄! We arrived right bevor the storm and were just able to put up our tent. We wondered about the lonely tent next to us without a flysheet. We often slept without flysheet, twice we had to put up the rainfly in the middle of the night 😅 It was crazzy to see all the waterfalls coming from the rocks around the Campground. We only saw the damage in moab the next day.
NO WAY WOULD I EVER STAND ON OR NEAR A BRIDGE WITH THAT MUCH POTENTIAL OF WASHING OUT AND COLLAPSING. My friend, a flatlander, sat up a tent in a wash and went to dinner. When he returned the tent was inaccessible. His group of four slept in the Jeep that night😖. Luckily the tent survived too.
Well done and educational, with its broad overview of lead up, flood and aftermath. Thank you for posting, including the live and learn stuff- we’ve all been there! With the huge growth in tourism and development in the Moab area (I’ve lived in the Four Corners region for several decades) this could help save lives. Sadly 2 died and over a dozen others needed rescue in this (thanks to our S&R teams!). There have been 2 more serious flash floods in the Moab area since.
Informative video on what can happen with RV camping weather. We have to monitor this ever changing part of RV life on a regular basis. Be a bit on guard! Things can happen so quick and some things, like this can begin a distance away and arrive unexpectedly. Thanks for sharing this unique weather adventure!
Flash floods are like a temperamental human….. you don’t know when they’re gonna strike, and they are fierce and ferocious and deadly. It can look like the prettiest day in the world with no clouds in the sky then all of a sudden clouds darkness flash floods, lightning thunder it’s scary stuff, nature at its best.
I used to live on Charlie Nelson's Egg Ranch & I remember seeing some wild flash floods! The trail along Mill Creek going underneath US 191 was maybe 6 months old I think, and the trail Moab had just down from the park was fairly new as well. I was on a volunteer crew cleaning up the trail system down there. In some places the mud was horrendously deep! I think under us 191 it was around 2-3' deep in icky red mud.
Thanks for posting this. I'd heard about the flash flood. I had been in central Utah at a camping meetup with a few other women. I was thinking about leaving a couple of days early to drive the three hours to Grand Junction to see a relative I hadn't seen in ages. But then, I couldn't bring myself to leave the idyllic location and get on I-70 for the 3 hour drive, so I didn't go after all. Something told me to stay put. Had I gone, I would have then headed over to Moab to make my way back to Arizona. I most likely would have been there during the flood. I'm really grateful I missed it. A flooded tent is a minor inconvenience compared to the fury of raging waters. I have never forgotten the Big Thompson Canyon flood in 1976 in Colorado that claimed many lives. A lot of people were camping in the canyon at the time and couldn't get out.
They had an even bigger flash flood in that same spot in 2022. Supposedly a 100 year flood. Did much more damage, with 3 feet of water running down the Main Street. They need to do something to tame this spot or it will keep happening.
I believe it! It would be an expensive fix. There is a town at the southern tip of Illinois, Cairo, which is on the Mississippi river and it has concrete walls to stop floodwaters. Thanks for watching.
When I visited Moab in '93, most of those buildings, including motels along river, weren't there. I think there were only 3 motels, a hostel, and a few RV parks. Talk about paving paradise.
As per drying the tent also use pegs of any sort to hang up on washing line and it will dry soon. In the motel also use the bathroom as a drying room for your wet stuff. Any camping store will have travel stuff suitable for your adventures.
This area is amazing but can be subject to frequent flooding. Downpours can swell low spots in minutes. Very dangerous. Beautiful video! Holy cow is right. It can be life threatening in the narrow canyons where there is nowhere to climb. Canyon walls go straight up. Stay alert.
You are lucky to get a room in that town full of motels. I needed one in May a few years ago and everyone of them were reserved for the summer season. (mountain bikers)
Monstrous mid summer rains preceded by turkey vultures escaping the incoming downpour under dark purple bellies of storm clouds in the desert southwest. Big raindrops beating the grease wood clean and washing the tumbleweeds out of all the washes, filling the reservoir with torrents of muddy water. You would find my brother and I down in the drainage channels if the current was not too fierce. Water roaring everywhere, the smell of the grease wood after God had scoured the desert floor when the floodgates of heaven opened up. For once the relentless sun not beating down on the sand making it hot as an oven. We were children of the desert and the rains were our reprieve from months of cloudless searing days. His voice filled with excitement, my voice filled with excitement. Im old now and miss my brother and the desert
Yeah I'm on the search and rescue for san juan county they called me and my team in to assist we found their side by side what was left of it, but as of today they've still not located them
@@margaretbutler9528 That was a woman. True, however, at that time the storm had passed and there was no lightning. The stormed moved quickly. Thanks for watching.
I just read about 2 tourists dying in a flash flood in Utah. Then I see more people standing filming water levels rising. We see tourists running from high ground to low ground. Then they are standing on a bridge which could wash away under their feet. I survived Katrina by seeking highest point in my county, in a fortified building. People who died were drowned in their homes, all storm surge, up to 12 miles inland. Moving water is deadly, 6 inches can sweep an adult off, a foot will carry off a small car. Flash floods are so unpredictable, so fast, yet tourists stand by FILMING what could be their final moments. So unnecessary and silly.
You want to be careful about the high ground you choose as well. Too high and you can wake because the wind has grabbed your staked down tent, with you and all your gear in it, and sent it rolling despite the stakes. Been there, and have the t-shirt.
@PeteOutdoors1 they were family members of my husbands best friend. Sadly they have not been found. ATV was washed over a cliff and they apparently got buried under the piles of debris. Very sad outcome.
@@PeteOutdoors1 When they aren’t even in the tent? What a crock. There’s no point in having a tent when the damn fly isn’t even in it. I’d rather be prepared and be stupid than have a tent full of water.
We were your neighbours at the Campground 😄! We arrived right bevor the storm and were just able to put up our tent. We wondered about the lonely tent next to us without a flysheet. We often slept without flysheet, twice we had to put up the rainfly in the middle of the night 😅
It was crazzy to see all the waterfalls coming from the rocks around the Campground. We only saw the damage in moab the next day.
IMO, a tent is like a rain god. Open one up and rain is sure to come.
Hello neighbor! Small world. Thanks for watching.
NO WAY WOULD I EVER STAND ON OR NEAR A BRIDGE WITH THAT MUCH POTENTIAL OF WASHING OUT AND COLLAPSING.
My friend, a flatlander, sat up a tent in a wash and went to dinner. When he returned the tent was inaccessible. His group of four slept in the Jeep that night😖. Luckily the tent survived too.
The police did cordon off the bridge and only let us through when they deemed it safe. Yeah, never camp in a wash. Thanks for watching.
Well done and educational, with its broad overview of lead up, flood and aftermath. Thank you for posting, including the live and learn stuff- we’ve all been there!
With the huge growth in tourism and development in the Moab area (I’ve lived in the Four Corners region for several decades) this could help save lives. Sadly 2 died and over a dozen others needed rescue in this (thanks to our S&R teams!). There have been 2 more serious flash floods in the Moab area since.
It is indeed sad that two people lost their lives. Thank you for watching.
Moab is one of my fave places. Thanks for filming this amazing event.
You are welcome! Thanks for watching.
Lived in Moab for seven years, it is a common occurrence. And life will go on!
Thank you for watching.
Informative video on what can happen with RV camping weather. We have to monitor this ever changing part of RV life on a regular basis. Be a bit on guard! Things can happen so quick and some things, like this can begin a distance away and arrive unexpectedly. Thanks for sharing this unique weather adventure!
Thanks for watching.
@@PeteOutdoors1 You are welcome! Fascinating weather video.
flip the tent so the wind blows it dry in an hour or so. It's nylon.
That probably would have worked. Thanks for watching.
Great video and some sound advice about wash camping. The power of water is amazing!
Thank you for watching.
Wild thing is is that flashfloods can come in from many miles away, to an area where it isn't raining even, as he says in the video.
Thanks for watching.
Flash floods are like a temperamental human….. you don’t know when they’re gonna strike, and they are fierce and ferocious and deadly. It can look like the prettiest day in the world with no clouds in the sky then all of a sudden clouds darkness flash floods, lightning thunder it’s scary stuff, nature at its best.
Thanks for watching.
Flash floods are something to see and dangerous. Thanks for sharing, and have a great day
Thanks for watching.
I used to live on Charlie Nelson's Egg Ranch & I remember seeing some wild flash floods! The trail along Mill Creek going underneath US 191 was maybe 6 months old I think, and the trail Moab had just down from the park was fairly new as well. I was on a volunteer crew cleaning up the trail system down there. In some places the mud was horrendously deep! I think under us 191 it was around 2-3' deep in icky red mud.
I can imagine. Thank you for watching.
Only takes one time to leave the rain fly off and you will never make that mistake again! Ask me how I know too! 😂
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for posting this. I'd heard about the flash flood. I had been in central Utah at a camping meetup with a few other women. I was thinking about leaving a couple of days early to drive the three hours to Grand Junction to see a relative I hadn't seen in ages. But then, I couldn't bring myself to leave the idyllic location and get on I-70 for the 3 hour drive, so I didn't go after all. Something told me to stay put. Had I gone, I would have then headed over to Moab to make my way back to Arizona. I most likely would have been there during the flood. I'm really grateful I missed it. A flooded tent is a minor inconvenience compared to the fury of raging waters. I have never forgotten the Big Thompson Canyon flood in 1976 in Colorado that claimed many lives. A lot of people were camping in the canyon at the time and couldn't get out.
You are welcome. Good thing you listened to your gut feeling, most of the time it is correct 🙂 Thanks for watching.
I'm originally from Leadville and remember the big Thompson flood. What a disaster.
Really beautiful there 😊
Indeed! Thank you for watching.
They had an even bigger flash flood in that same spot in 2022. Supposedly a 100 year flood. Did much more damage, with 3 feet of water running down the Main Street. They need to do something to tame this spot or it will keep happening.
I believe it! It would be an expensive fix. There is a town at the southern tip of Illinois, Cairo, which is on the Mississippi river and it has concrete walls to stop floodwaters. Thanks for watching.
Just out of curiosity, what was the weather forecast that morning?
I didn't check it! Thanks for watching.
Cloudy, with a chance of flooding?
If you ignore the weather, it will remind you to pay attention next time.
Indeed! Thanks for watching.
...IF there IS a next time...
Amazing! Thanks for giving us a bird’s eye view!
Thanks for watching.
When I visited Moab in '93, most of those buildings, including motels along river, weren't there. I think there were only 3 motels, a hostel, and a few RV parks. Talk about paving paradise.
Thanks for watching.
There certainly were far more motels! (But yeah, after 92 the motels restaurants boomed - in two periods.)
You could actually just flip that over in one piece in the sun for a couple hours and it will dry quickly.
Thanks for watching.
I have never been and am planning a vacation. I didn’t know this could happen in Moab .
It can happen anywhere in the southwest. Thanks for watching.
As per drying the tent also use pegs of any sort to hang up on washing line and it will dry soon. In the motel also use the bathroom as a drying room for your wet stuff. Any camping store will have travel stuff suitable for your adventures.
Thanks and thanks for watching.
Hey there, what a utterly beautiful pic !!!
Thank you for watching.
This area is amazing but can be subject to frequent flooding. Downpours can swell low spots in minutes. Very dangerous. Beautiful video! Holy cow is right.
It can be life threatening in the narrow canyons where there is nowhere to climb. Canyon walls go straight up. Stay alert.
Thank you for watching.
Next time, lay your tent on it's side and it will be dry in about five minutes. You wasted money getting a motel when your bedding wasn't even wet.
I hope there is no next time 😀Thanks for watching.
I was at Moab when this happened! Poor tent campers around me!
Thanks for watching.
😱😱 nice rain and rainbows 👍👍 😱😱 see water like that be mind blowing 🤯🤯 that's beautiful 😍 flash flood 😯😲
Thank you for watching.
Don't know about you but I look at multiple weather reports before I go out back 😅
Usually I do as well. But not this time! Thanks for watching.
These flash floods are DANGEROUS AF.....Please watch these insightful videos and be prepared... before you have to learn the hard way.
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You are lucky to get a room in that town full of motels. I needed one in May a few years ago and everyone of them were reserved for the summer season. (mountain bikers)
Yeah, there were a lot of vacancies at the time. Thanks for watching.
I can see it was posted on June 29, but when did this actually occur?
This was on June 23. Thanks for watching.
When it rains anywhere out there you should stay in a high ground area and not go down and stand on the bridge right over the flood waters. 🙄
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That's gnarly. Moab dont play. Respect Nature or perish.
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It's monsoon season. There will be a lot of it in the next couple of months.
Thanks for watching.
Monstrous mid summer rains preceded by turkey vultures escaping the incoming downpour under dark purple bellies of storm clouds in the desert southwest. Big raindrops beating the grease wood clean and washing the tumbleweeds out of all the washes, filling the reservoir with torrents of muddy water. You would find my brother and I down in the drainage channels if the current was not too fierce. Water roaring everywhere, the smell of the grease wood after God had scoured the desert floor when the floodgates of heaven opened up. For once the relentless sun not beating down on the sand making it hot as an oven. We were children of the desert and the rains were our reprieve from months of cloudless searing days. His voice filled with excitement, my voice filled with excitement. Im old now and miss my brother and the desert
Nicely poetic. Thanks for watching 😀
What a fascinating video.
Thank you for watching.
Well I guess all this water ends up in Lake Powell, so, at least that's one positive aspect.
Indeed! Thanks for watching.
Great footage! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching.
it rained
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There is a missing Texan couple in Moab due to this flood.
Tragic. Thank you for watching.
Yeah I'm on the search and rescue for san juan county they called me and my team in to assist we found their side by side what was left of it, but as of today they've still not located them
@@fritzpipkin792 😞
Is that muddy water, or is there poop in it? It seems really brown even though the sand and rocks all around are red.
If there is poop in it, it's minute fraction of the volume of flow.
@@gregpeterson2414 Flow, lulz 🥹
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First time camping?
No, I am experienced. But every once in a while you get complacent.😀Thanks for watching.
0:33 You are not wet until your socks are soaked.
That was my bath for the day 😀 Thank you for watching.
The blue tarp under tent funneled water under the tent. Always keep the ground cloth (tarp) completely under the edge of the tent.
True, I usually do that, but I wasn't expecting it to rain. Thanks for watching.
Ahhh, nature's soil redistribution system at work.
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Love the scenery very beautiful and like your videos too
Thank you for watching.
Wow, a lot of water all at once.
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The young man on top of hill during rain storm needs education about lightning. Very dangerous position he was in.
@@margaretbutler9528 That was a woman. True, however, at that time the storm had passed and there was no lightning. The stormed moved quickly. Thanks for watching.
I just read about 2 tourists dying in a flash flood in Utah. Then I see more people standing filming water levels rising. We see tourists running from high ground to low ground. Then they are standing on a bridge which could wash away under their feet.
I survived Katrina by seeking highest point in my county, in a fortified building. People who died were drowned in their homes, all storm surge, up to 12 miles inland.
Moving water is deadly, 6 inches can sweep an adult off, a foot will carry off a small car.
Flash floods are so unpredictable, so fast, yet tourists stand by FILMING what could be their final moments.
So unnecessary and silly.
Agreed. Always seek high ground. The police did close the bridges and they were opened when I was filming. Thanks for watching.
I thought at first this this was Moab in the ME.
Thank you for watching.
When it rains things get wet
You said it! Thanks for watching.
I wouldn’t hang around.
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Always learning, aren’t we!🙂
Indeed! Thanks for watching.
Where is your trash bag pancho put tent on high ground duh
You want to be careful about the high ground you choose as well. Too high and you can wake because the wind has grabbed your staked down tent, with you and all your gear in it, and sent it rolling despite the stakes. Been there, and have the t-shirt.
Thanks for watching.
Sadly people went missing in that flash flood
Oh no! Any updates on it?
@PeteOutdoors1 they were family members of my husbands best friend. Sadly they have not been found. ATV was washed over a cliff and they apparently got buried under the piles of debris. Very sad outcome.
@@sgchevy1 May they rest in peace. How tragic.
That's a mild one. They have been way worse.
Thanks for watching.
The fact you made this hike with that weather pending.. This is just foolish. The signs were plainly there.
All is well that ends well :) Thanks for watching.
Is it bad for laughing at this
Well...Thank you for watching.
I got married in Moab in a flash flood 😅
Thanks for watching.
Turn the tent inside out and the sun will dry it. Tell me you've never went camping before without telling you've never went camping.
Cosplay Camping!
Tell the internet you’re a bit*h without telling us you’re a bit*h :)
No one is an expert the first couple of times. Except you, of course.🙄
Tell me you studied flash floods but never seen one.
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Who doesn’t put the rain fly on a tent? Can’t believe anybody is that dense.
Many people don't use the rain fly in the summer unless rain is expected, preferring the draft that cools the tent. Thanks for watching.
@@PeteOutdoors1 I’ve been camping well over 60 years. I have never left the fly off.
@@timthompson8297 I don't like the fly, I am a warm sleeper and prefer the open air. I avoid it unless it is absolutely necessary.
@@PeteOutdoors1 Your call.
@@PeteOutdoors1 When they aren’t even in the tent? What a crock. There’s no point in having a tent when the damn fly isn’t even in it. I’d rather be prepared and be stupid than have a tent full of water.
I'll be there Aug 11-13 2024, hope all this crazy shit is done already! Sorry to see the people of Moab have to deal with this again.
Monsoon season should be over by then. Thanks for watching.
@@PeteOutdoors1 Hope so!
This is normal life in the west. Predates white people arriving. Nothing difficult about dealing with it, just plan on it 🤣