it is, i so hope, coming back to normal. couple of the washes they crossed, i would not have crossed. it only takes a few inches to sweep away that wee truck.

So true

AGREED...

Back in 1968 the Prescott area had monsoon storms for 30 strait days. It was wonderful. I could be off a year.

Its been about 15-20 yrs since "normal monsoon" Hopefully this becomes more regular.

I like the smell of the dessert after it water river flowing down the washing

Love the smell of desert rain !

Creosote bushes after the rain smell like heaven.

Its called mud

Agreed! Best smell ever!! Born & raised in Phx but now live in FL .. tried to describe the smell to coworkers but failed miserably LOL

That's why we have a stupid motorist law here

@@susannyysti869 Yeah, we got tired of paying for their dumb ass.

People also forget to account for the speed and amount of water. It doesn't take a huge amount of water but if it has power - look out! Works in opposite as well. Flash storm conditions are just no no.

Cross it numbnuts!!!!!!!🙈🤗😜🤪🤣

@@bensonyazzie1168 haha famous last words

Rainbows?

The majority of flood deaths are among people who try to drive across flooded roads and don't make it across.

Same here in North Carolina, every year we have tropical storms or hurricanes and just about every single death is caused by driving across flooded roads. Just pour yourself your favorite beverage and enjoy the storm from the safety of your own home.

Cars can be washed away with as little as 2 inches of water also besides flooding being a danger the first 15 minutes of the rain is the most dangerous because the oils on the road have been loosened up but have not yet been washed away!

Great point

Thank you Captain obvious once again you save the day from being obvious

Well don't let it all run off.

too bad it is the snowpack we really need! all this just runs downstream

This will make things worse. This is highly unstable. Gonna make the flora grow and will dry out and will become tinder for wildfires.

@@DustinHawke yup

We took full advantage of the rain. My girlfriends mom caught us doing it in the backyard during the storm. We think she's watched us before... Too convenient.

Dear we dont have Monsoons in this part of the World..We dont have a Monsoon season..

@@windwhipped5 Arizona does have a monsoon season.

am from Algeria I want to buy a house in Arizona I am looking for a specialized real estate agent internationally

Not like this.

@@donnalawrence9054 It's better than a Drought & a severe one that's for sure, the West has been in a major problematic drought for the last decade+ not to mention all the wild fires! Water is probably the most precious resource on Earth & it's becoming more & more scarce so beggars can't be choosers, I'll take the rain however mother nature decides to bring it, - the acid.

Agreed! Near 5 months in south central Washington

No need to complain but prepare for the coming years.

@@donnalawrence9054 I agree...we've had enough. Send the rest to Cali or something.

how hot does Arizona get during a summer?

Hehehe very funny.

Some one who is never lived the desert we'll buy a house from a crooked developer

@@jasonthomas1299 ---I checked on-line FEMA flood plain maps of the property.

El Ultimo: dat’s de truth! When will we learn?

@@jasonthomas1299 welcome to DeSantis state of Florida. Con men and meth labs everywhere and Red Tide Ronnie on photo opportunities

Haha! I just moved to Albuquerque NM, it’s not really considered a desert, but they e been getting a lot of unusual rain and lightning too

Always have a bug out bag in trunk with 2gals H2O, never know when you may need them and other essentials.

Moved here to Verde valley 25 yrs ago when there were only 2 stop 🛑 lights in the whole town of Cottonwood. Yeah what a difference now!

Most of what you're seeing in the video is after the flashflood had mostly subsided. I guarantee you the water was much higher and swifter earlier.

Moved out in 05. Ironically because of the lack of water.

Yay, C.G. in the house

Casa Grande turns into a GIANT lake when the gila gets going. used to trip out driving to Tucson looking west at the plain of water to the horizon.

I used to live in AZ and remember August was "no sleep" month. The electric storms always start after midnight and just as you fall asleep a clap of thunder & flash of lightning throws you out of bed... Good luck down there!

We’re going to get more I think. I’m also out in CG.

Be safe. An have a plan B. My Friend. I would spend sometime with Momma just to be where she need you

Driving drunk they should of left you.

@@The_Conqueeftador you are sick and where did it say he was drunk?

People who live in flash flood prone areas have a hard time getting how powerful moving water is.

Very much looking forward to that!

It'll be beautiful alright, but lots of fuel for fires

@@marywinterstein2952 Thats what the cows are for.

Riverburg need slot of cows. Doubtful there are that many grazing in this state.Lets say on the road to saquaro lake or camp Verde or Payson Prescott wickenberg or ashfork. As howlow or alpine or nutrioso or springerville and that's just a tiny bit there's not enough cows horses or anything else. All I said is beautiful rain. We needed it so bad. Too bad it creates so much fuel.Almost like can't win for losing.

Around Tucson too. Two days running with that soft rain which can be deceiving

Welcome water

A slow, soaking rain is just what we need the most.

HEARD THAT BABY! waiting for the claims on the black canyon to slow down. new to me 35 year old gas powered double panner im taking out. runs great. maybe a dredge, but for sure sliuces.

Hell ya I can't wait!!!!!! I'll be heading to the claims to beat the guys with the drywashers!!! Take my recirculating system ha ha ha ha

Three dudes that know what's up!

@@magicone9327 apa claims are pretty good when it come for flood gold... I've gotten some petty damn nice pickers

@@Rivenburg-xd5yf I seen a couple places on r.r claims that have some good water in the creeks. Lil San do has some good water in there as well

Looks like just another day in Florida.

I remember that back in the 1970s.

yup or raining so hard if driveing all you saw was white and ten minutes later brite and sunny

Lived in Phoenix from ‘77 to ‘79 and remember when they bulldozed the approaches to save the bridges over the Salt river. I think it was ‘78 when the only way across the river was the interstate bridge. That year the floods washed out the Black Canyon interstate bridges. This is not a 100 year event.

@@77leelg exactly me and you’ve seen way worse .just in the last 43 years . We remember when big storms crippled Phx .

After moving to Washington State, peopled looked at me like I was nuts when I wouldn’t go anywhere when it was raining , because back in the day your house might be where it once was. The monsoons are nothing to play with in Az. Before they put the bridge on hiway 85 ( 80 it used to be) the Agua Fria would run fast and wicked. And to go from Avondale into Phoenix you had to find another way if they weren’t flooded.

This flood isnt 100 year flood. In 1978 the agua fria ripped a 60 foot high freeway bridge down on the north bound side of I17. The water was up 60 feet to the bridge proper before it went. agua fria is barely cruisin now. just wait till it drags 300 ton 20 foot boulders down the river, THATLL GET EVERYONES ATTENTION. It makes things fall off the wall and shelves if you live within 1/8 mile, nonstop grinding for weeks sonetimes. Even people living 200 feet up on the cliffs move away after in fear. . The agua fria can move as much water at full flood as the missisipi at full flood. The mighty miss goes 50 miles wide to hold it all, moving 6 miles an hour with 50 foot drop across a state. The agua fria at points is 100 yards wide, but since it drops 50 feet EVERY MILE, it moves at 30 to 50 miles an hour at full flood. ALL middle and southern AZ flooding is dangerous because of that drop causing that high speed. Small streams you can cross in other states will blow a regular passenger car off the road @ 10 inches deep in AZ. If you try to walk across one of these, turn upstream, shuffle sideways, watch out for floating wood to take out your knees and bash/wash you away. If you absolutely HAVE TO cross a bad one, grab the heaviest rock you can find, to hold you down as you cross.

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@@Rivenburg-xd5yf The new Waddell dam has put a stop to most of the flooding on the Agua Fria. In 78 they let the reservoir fill all the way up and then dumped the gates. With less rainfall and a much bigger lake I think those days are done. It better be, many of the places they said no one would ever be allowed to build on now have apartments and housing on them. Where happy Valley Parkway crosses the Agua Fria there was a little town called Hound Dog. My brother in law had a zoo down there. Incredible mismanagement led up to the 78 flood. Sometimes it seems we don't learn the lessons we should.

@@MrMarkRoads wow, great history. never heard of hounddog, or the zoo. when did waddel get built up? ive been out of phx up north for a while.

Houses floating down the river, it was 1983 in Tucson. I think we have one in 1977 also.

There's been about three or four 100 year floods that I know of since the '80s.

Nah, at least so far. The moisture stream is squeezed between two highs right now, but it will open up a bit over the next couple days it looks like, letting things spread out.

1983.

I remember those days. The bridges would be gone! We'd have to wait a few days for repair crews

That is why America always called them flash floods and not monsoons. Monsoons happen over very large areas, like a hurricane without the extremely high winds. The language change by the Globalist weather centers.

Arizona is VERY Good at Capturing Rain,,,

Because the ground just sucks it up......LOL

Unlike CA

Yes we do catch the water unlike california

@@carlrice6989 hopefully…cuz I heard the state makes it illegal for AZ citizens to do so…

Oh yes..remember the water wheel disaster... so tragic!

@@sheilabanks5571 What's that?

@@mr.elastomeric1787 Shelia about to be the one on top of a truck begging for a helicopter rescue! Lol

That's a 100 year flood if that actually happened every 100 years. It's a 100 year flood because this is the level of flooding that usually happens once every 100 years on average, but are happening more commonly now. If you need half the state to drown for that to be used, you're a ridiculous person.

@@rotomoto8416 LOL, You mean the entro for "emegency 911"? lol, I KNEW THOSE BOZOS. They were drunk AH. That was the second time that night they were rescued from the black canyon river. my buddy rick was in the chopper doing the harness, the drunks effed up and pushed his knee under the choppers landing strut and the van they were in, effed him up. They paid about $20,000. I saw them the next day in the barbershop, called them all the bad words i know.

@Bryan Lashbrook WRONG. 'Haboob' is an arabic term meaning "to blow" or "blowing". A haboob is a huge violent sweeping dust storm and /or sandstorm. "The term "haboob" originated as a description for wind and sandstorms/duststorms in central and northern Sudan, especially around the Khartoum area, where the average number is about 24 per year"(glossary of meteorology)

@Bryan Lashbrook If there are more than 1 are they called haboobies?

Don't forget about the other 100 year storm from 2015 or so.

Exactly this guy definitely isn’t a native we’ve had these type floods several times .

And in the late 60's.

@@billyturner1600 I don't like that term. Fake is subjective. There is no truth; there is reality and the way people perceive it but one person's truth is not everyone's truth. But I agree that the news is sensationalist so always do your own research.

@@billyturner1600 fake is not the same as not true

Not going to happen south of both of those lakes

Phoenix is downstream of Lake Powell on the Salt. And we're well south of Lake Mead. Our water goes south, but I don't know what reservoirs are in the south western part of AZ.

Where does it end up?

@@catherinelhammond7578 Colorado river. im not sure if it above or below the last dam.

Yes ride the water in rubber raft! Make video and go with the flow! This would be most fun thing!

Nani, y’all behave yourselves, ya hear? ❤️ from Alabama

Do not fear the water! Get in rubber rafts, and go with the flow! You will like it!

Not correct who broke the record so much water

May have broke a spot record somewhere of some type but certainly not a 100 year flood. I’ve lived in AZ for 60 years and have seen a bunch more water. I did enjoy the video but it didn’t look scary. Nothing I wouldn’t cross on a moped. 😜

I've been here 20 years and never saw a monsoon rain that goes on at full intensity hour after hour after hour. The water filled my pool to overflowing and the water came up 4 inches to my backdoor. This storm was intense. And I don't live near a wash. I'm in your average suburban community and travel was impossible for hours. Flash flood warnings were hitting my mobile phone every hour urging residents to stay put wherever they were.

They are now. I hate it!

Not really all that water will be soaked up by the ground before long

@@erikrobles5727 mosquito larvae hatch in 24-48 hours. They don't need long haha.

AMEN!

Pools and lawns use most of AR. Water and two hour bath showers.

The "Stupid" refers to the motorist, not the law.

Wait I think the word stupid refers to the motorist not the law. Ambiguous adjective had me going.

I see what you did there 😂

Exactly so. Great law

It's a law for "stupid motorists". Guess you didn't pay attention - maybe that's what the law is for!

Sure was!

RH JOhnson over in sun city west was about knee deep. Across from the crooked putter that lake appears to tripled in size

They have much slides in Flagstaff because of the museum fire

Up here in snowflake and show low got it too

20 if we're lucky haha

My goodness.

in the last 24 years, yeah been a serious drought. supossed to go back into wet now, for 20 years.

I took my rubber blades of and covered the metal with fabric Incase I accidently hit the switch. I would wait untill it was going to rain before putting them on. They never lasted a summer baking in the sun......try a cheap long sock from .99 store

@@Rivenburg-xd5yf I sure hope so.

I had a headache too.

Jill and Butterfly,: I’m sorry you have those headaches, I know how you feel. Before storms I get headaches too and my doctor once suspected the barometric pressure and all the microscopic pollens and dust might be causing headaches. So ever since, I started taking a decongestant like Benadryl and it really does help me. Stay well. Hugs from alabama .

Geniuea hen tea or gully grass

I don't know about a teenager but I know they're still looking for a 4-year-old little girl that was swept away by water so sad!

@@janetrhodes8349 that sucks! It happens every storm it seems, how unfortunate

@@janetrhodes8349 that sucks! It happens every storm it seems, how unfortunate

Try out a Wyoming winter in the windy country...wind chill of 50 below with snow drifts 7' high...that's tough & why I moved away 32 yrs ago.

Bubble….. What a horrific tragedy! I send my sincere condolences to that precious teenager’s family. God bless everyone. Love from Alabama.

Cool story bro

They never died before😡

Yes, even if you can see the road people have to account for the force & speed of the water - which they never do. Guess everyone slept thru physics class!

Yuma had flash flooding?

@@tacocruiser4238 The Fortuna Wash went clear over I-8 , I lived about a mile and a half upstream from I-8, along Ironwood Drive facing the mountains. Awesome place no homes were built yet across the wash. When I moved in 73 from the beach to 1000 ft above in a Malibu Cyn, a month later, a huge brush fire nearly burned down my home...a welcome to Arizona, however I LOVE ARIZONA!

@@kinhason46 Did this happen recently? I haven't heard about any flooding in Yuma. I know Yuma is typically much drier than Phoenix.

@@tacocruiser4238 No in the early 1990s. Yuma at the busiest intersection at 16th St & 4th Avenue used to flood all the time when it rained. We moved to Yuma from Cali in 1992, bought home in August '93...Yes, the monsoons don't drop rain to us in the South Western corner. We get 2 weeks of humidity in August...very little rainfall...the sunniest city in the world is Yuma

Wow sorry for your distress. Maybe less pool water

Was born and raised in Az. Just moved to OK a couple months ago. Now I’m just making sure I can make it to the tornado shelter in time, if need be! 😳

Also Mesa here! What a deluge! The previous storm broke two branches off my Palo verde, snd i haven’t finished sawing it yet… now a major branch broke off one of my orange trees…

That is great news for you. Better for. your fruit trees too. They would be doing a ' happy dance' if trees could. Ha.

@@FawziaTung Sorry about that. Be careful out there, your friends in Alabama ❤️ 🇺🇸 ❤️

The humidity is mind blowing! I love the storms and rain, but is this lingering 80% humidity necessary? Isn't this a big reason I left Ohio? 😂

@@thescarletgraywitch8052 I live in PA. Hate humidity

We're moving there from Seattle next month. Good luck!

If you're moving from seattle, remember the way people have voted for years is probably what's made it a state you want to be in. Please don't change their state.

As will my wife and I.

Me too and the wife can’t wait

Be prepared for really high water and electric bills as the Colorado River watershed dries up.

@@drinaz4070 I’m moving from Southern California, my son and daughter live in Scottsdale, their bills are SIGNIFICANTLY lower than mine here.

Welcome 😁

That won't be happening dear our state is ran by REPUBLICANTS OR WONT

@@davidhubbard7573 😂😂 ours (CA) is run by DemocRats. They created a water crisis so they can charge us for the water. I get to see our water run straight to the ocean, at least these last few years 😱 next they are thinking of going after Californians who have water wells! Lord help us 🙏🏼

@@lindaleach5269 um, the salt has several very large dams, the agua fria has the MASSIVE lake pleasent dam, everything goes to the colorado after that. not sure if its, above or below the last dam.

@@Denise23451 it hasnt rained, so how are dems responsible. Corporate farms are sucking up the aquafer water.

It is

Unfortunately, the Mojave desert is drier than the Sonoran. Thus the reason that the Mojave desert cannot support the saguaro.

@@crazeyjoe But it can support the Joshua Tree. Why cant the Sonora Desert support the Joshua Tree?

@@tacocruiser4238 The Sonoran desert is not arid enough to support the Joshua tree. The Saguaro stores a lot of water in its "arms." So it needs to have a "wet season" (monsoon) in order to do so and survive. A wet season like the Sonoran desert has would over saturate the Joshua tree. There is a reason why different deserts will have differing plant life.

@@crazeyjoe I appreciate that information. Thanks ,

@@e.conboy4286 My pleasure.

Nice thing about being retired - we just cozy up inside our home and watch the show. 😋

Less than a foot.

Water is truly an amazing force some people are not aware of while others defiantly deny as they dare to drive the flooded areas. I have one acquaintance who, in a hurry, dared to go through a swift flood to get home, only to be carried into a telephone pole. Even what seems like a couple of inches of water can cause the vehicle to hydroplane as a closer friend of mine experienced when she hydroplaned into a telephone pole (also).

@@MrJest2 tell that guy in the golf cart to go back home . Bingo is canceled 😞

Correctly so

There IS a water shortage/drought/record breaking heat thruout the West, but since YOU know what God is thinking…when will the hard working ranchers/farmers be able to recover their horrific losses from the drought?

If there is no water shortage (drought) why is the west burning and aquafers empty.

@@chrisclinton8949 well, here's a theory, because thee aquifers are being sucked dry for supply to all those underground bunkers they(higher echelons of society) are blasting out for themselves, once this earth is dry and barren and void. Thus the sonic booms no one seems to explain and the many quakes around the world. So if a mere pheasant, such as myself, could dream up such nonsense, what do you suppose evil could dream up and succeed?.

I just bought a lot at 142nd and Ashler Hills. Hopefully will be building a home there in the next year.

@@goldenbeltroofingexteriors8270 that's great!!!! welcome to the neighborhood 😁👍

@@Shaggyone thanks man!

ji wang: 95 ? OMG! Take care Tex!

Yeah, but you have humidity at 90% all summer. No thanks.