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.

flip the tent so the wind blows it dry in an hour or so. It's nylon.

Only takes one time to leave the rain fly off and you will never make that mistake again! Ask me how I know too! 😂

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.

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. 🙄

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.

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!

Moab is one of my fave places. Thanks for filming this amazing event.

You could actually just flip that over in one piece in the sun for a couple hours and it will dry quickly.

Lived in Moab for seven years, it is a common occurrence. And life will go on!

If you ignore the weather, it will remind you to pay attention next time.

Flash floods are something to see and dangerous. Thanks for sharing, and have a great day

Great video and some sound advice about wash camping. The power of water is amazing!

Really beautiful there 😊

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.

Don't know about you but I look at multiple weather reports before I go out back 😅

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.

Just out of curiosity, what was the weather forecast that morning?

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.

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 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.

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.

Amazing! Thanks for giving us a bird’s eye view!

That's gnarly. Moab dont play. Respect Nature or perish.

It's monsoon season. There will be a lot of it in the next couple of months.

I have never been and am planning a vacation. I didn’t know this could happen in Moab .

Hey there, what a utterly beautiful pic !!!

it rained

Well I guess all this water ends up in Lake Powell, so, at least that's one positive aspect.

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

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.

Ahhh, nature's soil redistribution system at work.

There is a missing Texan couple in Moab due to this flood.

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)

😱😱 nice rain and rainbows 👍👍 😱😱 see water like that be mind blowing 🤯🤯 that's beautiful 😍 flash flood 😯😲

These flash floods are DANGEROUS AF.....Please watch these insightful videos and be prepared... before you have to learn the hard way.

Great footage! Thanks for sharing

What a fascinating video.

I was at Moab when this happened! Poor tent campers around me!

I can see it was posted on June 29, but when did this actually occur?

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.

0:33 You are not wet until your socks are soaked.

When it rains things get wet

I thought at first this this was Moab in the ME.

First time camping?

Is that muddy water, or is there poop in it? It seems really brown even though the sand and rocks all around are red.

Wow, a lot of water all at once.

Where is your trash bag pancho put tent on high ground duh

The blue tarp under tent funneled water under the tent. Always keep the ground cloth (tarp) completely under the edge of the tent.

That's a mild one. They have been way worse.

Always learning, aren’t we!🙂

Sadly people went missing in that flash flood

I wouldn’t hang around.

I got married in Moab in a flash flood 😅

Is it bad for laughing at this

Who doesn’t put the rain fly on a tent? Can’t believe anybody is that dense.

Love the scenery very beautiful and like your videos too

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.