To ALL our Loyal Commenters: I am a commenter, too; but I have to say, after 10+ years on KZfaq, that Rankin Studios puts out the highest-quality, best shot videos of flash floods I have seen in my time here. He doesn't put out any fluff, just describes what we are about to see, then gets OUT OF THE WAY of the actual video! We enjoy it for its simplicity, the craftsmanship of the shot angles, the LINGERING of a specific scene until complete (rather than jumping from one item to another!!), and being patient enough for the event to run its course. This is something that ALL video up-loaders should (IMO) take note of. We are here to click on videos, to learn from them, enjoy them, and not get caught up in the mistakes (i.e., mistakes in craftsmanship, quality of the film upon release, etc. ) of the finished product. For those of us who are narrow-minded, judgmental, or just plain idiots, there is a solution -- go to the next video! We don't need your feces on ANY web video comment page! It's not classy, and it shows your level of "sincerity" of thought, if any thinking exists! For the rest of us, please take a page from Rankin Studios -- learn -- practice the craft -- and be exalted on the KZfaq Forum!! Peace

Well done David Rankin. Your work allows the viewer to appreciate the power of nature without silly music, screaming, talk, etc.

Your videos are AWESOME, in the true sense of the word. Vacationed in Nevada countless times & was aware of the flash flood warnings, but never imagined the floods coming down the washes as black walls of debris. Thanks for documenting it all.

Thank you for not adding music... I love the sound .. thank you again

I love the loud chaotic sound of a flash flood. My favorites are the ones with bouncing boulders. Rock on!

Some spectacular videos! It's mesmerising watching the wave of debris push forward. I saw a stick once in a river here in England wreaking havoc as it flowed downstream. Absolute carnage it was lol.

I’m fascinated by your videos. Thank you for getting us all out there to see such a sight! My favorite is the debris wall... stay safe!

I filmed one on July 18th. I had to intercept a few hikers about 10 minutes before the flood came down and inform them that hiking in the wash was a bad idea that day. On the up side, these folks from Holland got a show that day they wont soon forget :)

It's cool to see a dramatic, natural event that is pretty much unaltered by man-made structures. With the exception of the 1 tire, this is pretty much something you could have witnessed 100,000 years ago.

Excellent set of views of the debris flow of a flash flood. And yet, there's a bolder at the 2:00 mark that hints at far greater floods...

Question for any volcanologist types out there. Isn't this essentially what a lahar mudflow secondary effect from an eruption would look like? Lahars are basically rivers of mud created by snow melted by lava and they're filled with trees and rocks and other debris. They have the consistency of cement. Can be just as dangerous as a lava flow.

Nice, high quality.. great close up views and very little talking. Perfect!

You have got to explain how you know to be there at just the right time seeing the very beginning of the flood. Amazing footage.

Nice setup to catch the flow. Happy it wasn't high taking your cameras :). Same compliment on no music with thank you very much.

This is incredibly cool. I love being in awe of such enormous power.

If this video was 1 hour long I would watch from the beginning to the end. Great video thnx for sharing.

Great - no awesome video with superb shots! Angles were great, like the viewer was about to be swept up into the flood! Thanks for leaving the sounds natural, made it so much more impressive than music!! You are a video artist! 🤗

Thank you very much for posting this! This is quite remarkable...

Just great video. You should win an award for how this is filmed.

Just a question..where does all that debris finally end up, for a desert area, there seems to be a lot of large logs, that could be used for firewood, if collected and stacked someplace ......

Can you show the end where the debris pils up once in a while please?

Amazing shots. Proving how anyone who takes Mother Nature for granted, and laughs at feeling superior, and smarter...really have no idea what they are talking about. Thanks for allowing us to see it.

Yet another amazing video of the power of water. Glad you were able to stop those hikers.

And kids this is why you don't camp in a dry creek bed. This comes through while you're in your tent fast asleep you will definitely get a splinter.

Right on, I have a degree in geology as well. I understand geologic time well, but relative to our lifespans those floods are rare ;) The odds of me filming one are slim to none. Also, the flood I filmed was a good size flood for that basin, easily could kill someone. It would be cool to see one big enough to overwhelm the slot below for sure.

Yes, I was impressed by that also. There were some rather large cottonwood limbs in this flood. The thing at 2:18 looks like part of a tree base, where the roots start. Thanks, I'll stay safe :)

Great video! Absolutely amazing and creepy and the same time! Just the sound of the debris flow is enough to give you the chills! Great shots of it initially coming right towards you down dry ground. I can't imagine seeing something like that coming towards me!

4/7/22 That was SO good I had to watch it again! Great filming!

Really well filmed! Not a lot of talking or music. Awesome!!!

You have the best videos of all. They give me great nightmares !

Really appreciate how you hold the camera.

WOW, awesome video. Its amazing what mother nature can do. Thank you for posting.

thank you, i have always wondered what a flash flood looks like. living in Texas i get to see a lot of the aftermath.

where does the debris end up downstream??? is there a mountain of stuff at the terminous?

Buckskin Gulch is a classic site for flood stratigraphy studies in the SW.

where does all the debris end up?

People can never get over the fact that an arroyo can fill in seconds with a blue sky where you are. Mike Fifer Las Cruces New Mexico

Where does all the trash end up ?

At times, the flood resembles cookies 'n' cream ice cream, with a dusting of crushed Oreos on top.

Beautifully filmed!

GREAT footage, I applaud you!

alway has to be a tire in there

Even on a nice Sunny Day, if you're camping in a dry wash, you need to see what the weather is around the surrounding area. If there is a storm in the distance or on a mountain. Get away from any dry wash. In fact...just don't camp there.

Good Job. So VERY cool. It is so awesome to see the debris head going over the dry sand. It is like Lava or something. Very mesmerizing. Oh, the blob...

This is hardly a baby by any standards. It was carrying full size tree trunks like toys. Very rarely do they get larger than this in this wash.

Wow, strangely unnerving, more so with it being a dark mass, moving with such determination.

I love videos like this.

ah, 'rare' to me probably means something different than to you. i'm a geologist; for my master's i studied the flood deposits along kitchen corral/buckskin wash. the floodplain you were filming from has been deposited by repeated mid-size floods since ~1940, and there have been a few dozen giant floods over the past 2000 years that totally overwhelmed the water-handling capacity of the slot canyon downstream (and left giant stacks of sediment along the canyon walls).

ah, my old stomping grounds...i spent a lot of time there hoping to see one of these come through. still a baby by buckskin standards, but cool to see nonetheless. thanks for sharing!

i watch your videos frequently, but i would like to see where all this debris finally ends up. does it flow into a river and keep going? does it get deposited in some gigantic debris pile at the end of the wash???? thanks

and that's all from storms miles away, right? Fascinatjng!

Depending on how active the monsoon season is, it can be 2 - 10 + times a year. Usually in the summer months.

Spot the random tyre lol Awesome shots dude

OK. I am totally creeped out. I have experienced plenty of flash floods in southern Arizona, but they don't form their own damn and sneak up on you. Ours , you get a trickle of water, quickly escalating into a full blown flood. But if you have any sense you will not get surprised by them. This is just insane. Honestly, I might have nightmares tonight. Great video.

Did I just see a discarded tire @ 2:33? Either way, I certainly wouldn't want to be caught in that channel with this much debris flowing down at me.

Indeed! Perhaps you got another shot at it tonight? I see that KCW/buckskin is currently under another FF warning...lots of action this year!

how do you know where these things are going to be? Through prior experience? These are great videos by the way

I have never seen anything like this before. Unbelievable!

Wow man your vids are insane, water scares the hell out of me!! So much power

Qu'elle chance d'avoir pu filmer ça !

Thank you for these amazing videos.

blessing from nicaragua..!!! NICE VIDEO..!!!

Thankyou so much for your answer.

Yeah, it's an amazing place. There is a middle route to get in and film but it would have been dark by the time the flood showed up.

i have a question...WHERE does all that wood and other debrie come from...so much !

The size of the trees in those debris flows is astounding. Also, the colour of the flow is strangely dark considering the surroundings. I have been wondering about foreign objects you might see in the flows, there is an odd shaped thing at 2:18, though it might be the upper of a tree, and then the tyre not long after, which is just punished when it eventually emerges. Amazing. Some of those branches are scraping and overlapping the edges, which is a worry, stay safe David.

is this a regular thing? great vid also thanks for the no music

That's a lot of debris! Cool video...

That was cool looking. I have never seen that in real life 👍

Nice bit of filming ,so far , GOOD.

That is pretty awesome!

"Oh, what a great place to camp, so smooth and flat!"

This is really shocking , living in Florida , flash floods are common , but we are so flat it just spreads evenly and with so many canals it drains just as fast. About how far away was the actual rain fall ? Thanks

great shots!

saw the tire going by, I was like wtf lol impressive

When I watch these flash flooding I think it would be great if you could catch all the wood that comes at it head of the food. I bet some of it would be great for arts and crafts. The rest for firewood. Just a thought.

great footage, beautiful event.

ok now I see it...sorry for the stupid question and comment. again...awesome video!

So what's the plan, shoot as far up as you can go, drive real fast to the next spot, film, drive real fast to the next spot, film, etc?

It would be interesting to see that same flood going through Buckskin Gulch.

Nice quality. There wouldn't be much left of you after swimming in that for a few miles.

I'm guessing that discolored water is from a recent forest fire?

Is debris fell into sea? What is use of debris wood

Wow, beautiful filming!! ;)

Thank you for sharing Your videos.

Great videos, well shot, really impressive.

It doesn't even look like water, so cool

Nice plug shot's!

*Impressive amount of debris!*

Thank you.

'Nuther good job of filming, David!

Been there last October. It was a harmless valley. Nothing to fear. I'm impressed how there's a real kind of a shock wave with all the debris. On your video the weather seems fine. Has there been a warning for hikers before, not to enter the gulch?

where the water come from?

Is this Utah? We hiked Buckskin years ago and I always wondered how afraid I should be of a flash flood... nice, thanks.

2019 has been a wet year so far. Maybe a Southern Utah flood year.

How do you filter out the debri from that water? Where does that water flow into?

That might be a good place to set up a dry washer after it drys up

How far away was the rain storm that created this debris flow?

Another great video! Thanks.

Might be an interesting film if you knew where 'Buckskin Wash / Gulch' was. As it is not internationally famous I have no idea.