Monstrous Flash Flood & Debris Flow l Johnson Canyon, UT 7/16/2018
Witness a monstrous flash flood rip through Johnson Canyon, Utah on July 16, 2018. This flash flood came down with major debris from up near the Bryce Canyon area, including massive pine trees and other refuse from higher elevations. I was able to intercept the flood multiple times as it passed down the canyon. Thank you @rankinstudio for another perfect flash flood forecast and guiding me in this intercept.
If you're wondering where the water from a flash flood comes from, flash floods occur after intense and heavy rainfall, when the ground can no longer absorb the water. Flash floods are so dangerous because they basically create rivers where there were none, and as you can see in this video, they often carry tons of heavy debris with them. Flash floods have the power to move boulders, parked cars, tear out trees, and destroy buildings and even bridges!
7/16/2018
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That must have been one hell of a cloud to hold that much wood.
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“Wood”
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@@jacobsworld7573 what do you call it? Looks like wood
@@galewinds7696 I meant the slang term of wood
Man, I can't imagine the raw power this is producing in-person. most likely feel the ground shaking. It amazes me how mother nature shows its true power.
That's just incredible! All those trees! Ty for uploading this. And for showing the dangers and power of the weather. I'm amazed how quiet that debris flow was. Makes it even more dangerous. Stay safe.
0:09 Looks ideal for swimming! When the Bible talked about Jesus walking on water, maybe that water looked something like ^this!
That's a lot of good firewood!
@@jonothandoeser Yeah, and all you have to do is build your house towards the end of one of ^these dry washes, and every time a serious thunderstorm occurs in the mountains, voila! A huge pile of firewood will simply wash up in your backyard!
@@HighlanderNorth1 YES! I want that!
@@jonothandoeser не верю,что столько старых обломков.Не верю.Где это их столько было в одном месте?
Wow, the amount of force necessary to carry that weight of timber, mud and water is extraordinary.
it's called gravity, baby!
God's work
I grew up in the desert and was always warned about flash floods. We used to speed into the huge black thunderstorms on our motorcycles for the sheer exhilaration of pouring rain, black skies with blazing lightning and often big hail, roaring wind and sand and water. Amazing. In the desert that doesn't happen often, but when it does it is spectacular to be in it. Never did we see a flash flood. When I look at this, it is like that is a slow motion, deathly, grinding machine coming down the arroyo, and no one would stand a chance if caught in that mess.
Bruh, I'm super athletic that I'll runs towards it jump, and then jump onto different logs because I'm cool like that.
@@marklopez1766 i wouldn't underestimate it even if i was disgustingly athletic
Guys, YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins, NOT jesus, and “HERE IS THE PROOF” From the Ancient Semitic Scroll: "Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3) Ancient Semitic Direct Translation Yad - "Behold The Hand" He - "Behold the Breath" Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
Arizona? how many thunderstorms do you think Arizona has per year?
Hi reed what top speed can a flood have
The sound of the water flowing with the sticks breaking is very relaxing. It should be made into music for meditation, study, or sleep.
Crazy how such destruction is relaxing to you
@@JOkERBIDEN it is it so very is
Yeah, sounds like fire burning in peaceful place.
I agree with you. This is nature and it’s fascinating to watch.
@@JOkERBIDEN äüüüüä
Thanks for this. I never would have thought so much debris could be carried by so little water.
That’s a lot of water
That’s a lot of water
I remember learning about massive debris flows like this as being the real eroding force that formed the canyons (including the Grand Canyon). Most people think about erosion coming from water flowing over the same area over time, but when a valley/wash is dry for a long time and then incredible heavy flows in a short period, flows like this with water, trees, mud, and even giant boulders move at a rapid pace eroding the dry soil beneath them quickly. The low spots become the obvious path for subsequent flows, and more erosion, on and on for millennia until you have the spectacular rock formations we see in the drier parts of the world.
The official scientific term for this type of desert flash flood water flow is "log stew".
Grand Canyon is a quarry Clearly
Well that makes sure sense!
Guys, YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins, NOT jesus, and “HERE IS THE PROOF” From the Ancient Semitic Scroll: "Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3) Ancient Semitic Direct Translation Yad - "Behold The Hand" He - "Behold the Breath" Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
Nay, the Grand Canyon was formed by the erosive capability of a massive flood-flow resulting from the continental ice-sheet melting, over-topping and then rapidly draining a retained back-filled lake of the scale of a vast inland sea. The GC may have been largely formed over 10 - 500 years from this "Biblical" event generating incomprehensible erosive force of a magnitude not easy to comprehend.
Dude, you're amazing to have kept ahead and shot so much footage, never seen anything like it before, thanks a billion for posting and showing what is going on in nature. Amazing footage. Hats off to Reed.
It's called a motor vehicle. They have them in Utah too.
How beautiful: Newly spawned twigs, migrating to the ocean. In a few years they will be branches, ready to swim back up the dry river bed to become trees in the same place they started their life as a twig. The circle of life.
It brings a lump to my throat. The majesty of nature.
You are adorable
Best thing I've read all day !
Unfortunately some will get caught and die a terrible death in a 🔥 fire. Man can be ruthless.
Excellent sense of humor, so far your commenters get the jist of your comment. But there's always that one guy/gal .
im australian and thanks for filming this this is awesome wow we dont have things like this over here but this is frickin unbelievable 😳😧
watched this video a dozen times.... i stay amazed.
Legend has it he's still standing there saying, "WOW!"
And on a quiet night with the wind blowing just right you can still hear him.
I think he was after that tire
Really
Wow
😂😂😂😂
I live in Las Vegas, NV and a couple years ago my husband and I were at the "Wetlands" when we noticed the sky was turning pitch black in the Northern area of Vegas we saw lighting and heard thunder but it was sunny where we were. All of a sudden we hear running water and notice that the wash had risen so we decided to head to higher ground from where we were. I started hearing some snapping noises then creaking and then what sounded like wood breaking but I can't figure out where its coming from. Then I see a tree starting to sway. I thought it was from the water and debris hitting it. NOPE it literally uprooted this 50+foot tall tree and swallowed it whole and then another 10 or more trees the same way all this happened within minutes after we decided to get to higher ground and somewhere i got it all on video. It was CRAZY!
Why don't you put it on tube? That will be interesting.
that sounds so interesting my man. Have a like
Thanks Alex , @ Nicole I say it because, many ppl don't know how to spot the dangers in time...I know a young man who has sufferred such a deep trauma since adolescence because, he survived flash floods but couldn't save his mother....now .in his early forties still suffers ( though bit better now) but I see that scar still aches in his conscious.....if possible pls publish ur video may be somewhere someones life will be saved
Luckily you made a good decision or it would have uprooted you
Same experience in "Provence" (french riviera) long ago. Was a teen and I kept tighten to a tree 2 of my young sisters sothat the water flood wouldn t push us all down in the valley. I saw big stones rolling and jumping from above us... It lasted maybe 10 minutes... But after everything seemed weird and quiet. The camping place (below us) was devasted. we found those big stones allover the place even in tbe swimmingpool we just inaugurated a month ago... And all bungalows... Tents... Etc destroyed. I was lucky and my sis too. In france those kind of events are more and more fluent. Climate change isn t a joke... It kills every year. That swhy I baught a property in... Normandy (!) 40km from landing beaches of june 1944, on the coast... And 300m altitude high in a quiet place with no future pb expected. 2 days ago in center of france they were same kind of climate troubles with ice balls as an orange destroying everything. People who were not carefull were killed... Same as for big fires as in CA but not on such wide areas. Just cose of dried soils. And water is missing underground here too. Bad perspective for the future of our kids and littl' kids, indeed. That s why I chose to move to one of the 2 regions which will be the less impacted in france.
The sound of those flowing branches getting crushed is terrifying. So much force!
Wow .. Mother Nature's Fury... I have see it like this first hand . Definitely Respect for Mother Nature
I'm amazed how quiet it was, 100's of tons of trees moving at speed. You would think the noise would be deafening.
Except for the wow
*100s. Not 100’s :)
@@James-fg8rf I just looked it up you are right but the article also said only a sensitive person wanting to correct others to seem higher in status will correct such a mistake as it's easy to work out the meaning wrote either way :)
@@James-fg8rf btw google answer follows the same line, stating " and will make the sensitive readers eyes bleed" got to love google. It took the words right out of my mouth.
@@itisjustacomment hahaha relax. Was just letting you know. Now you won’t make the mistake in a resume, job application or something like that. Not a big deal, I make spelling/grammar mistakes all the time. Like it when people correct me, I learn
I've never seen anything like it simply amazing.
One more breathtaking sight of the wild west. Such a fascinating eco system, the creatures all built for the harsh and unforgiving environment. Amazing. I was obsessed with the desert as a kid, to the point that one of my classmates had family in Arizona and he asked what I wanted from the desert, (course a tarantula was my first choice, but he dashed those plans) so I asked him to bring me back a tumbleweed. I wasn't joking about it either. Still didn't think he would actually do it but he did! I'm such a nerd. Lol not sorry.
I grew up in New Mexico, and the thought of someone wanting a tumbleweed is hilarious. Apparently you aren't the only one, because you can now buy them online for ridiculous prices. 😂
@@wildflower1397 😂😂 Don't know what it is about them, I guess I can relate to them, I've been wandering all my life.😉
Fall into this and you would get skewered. This is something you probably never see in a lifetime. Really cool video! Mother nature can be a real mother.
Cannot get enough of this. What a great catch! And thank you for the honest sounds instead of music
Yeah, much prefer natural sounds to that awful documentary music on tv. They even play that distracting music while someone is talking and sometimes music is so loud that it interferes with hearing what narrator is saying. It would seem that it's cheaper to just have natural sounds.
I'd like to see where the flood eventually ends up. What happens to all that debris? Does the flood end up in a larger river? So much timber. It's cool.
In a lot of these desert areas the water just spreads out when it gets to flatter ground and forms sort of a dryland delta. The water just sinks away. There must be a passel of timber lying around out there.
Thank you for sharing, I enjoyed watching that, but at the same time I was scared for you. I remember seeing water come down the river in my hometown when my father who worked for the council had to go along the riverbank and turn off every water pump. That's here in Australia, and most of the year we only got rain once a year in the north west of our state of Queensland, and we had to rely on water being pumped up from under the river but now a dam has been built to take care of the water supply. That was when I was a child, and on one occasion my Dad took my sister's and I to see what he had to do, and we were so 😱 for our Dad, but it made us appreciate his job 💙
There must be a lot of weight in those logs and twigs, so it shows just how strong that water flow is! Amazing!😊👍
I thought the same thing, and that Creek is on partially filled.
@@donluego9448 - yes! The water seems to be quite shallow!
Amazing. Once in New Mexico, my partner and I are heading West on I-40, we'd passed through some rain further East but the clouds were breaking up we're in the middle of nowhere and suddenly the traffic comes to a halt. About an hour later, we start moving again and a few miles on we drive through an area of mud they'd just cleared out. This mudflow was 100's of feet wide it inundated the interstate.
After reading your story I have to add mine. About 40 years ago I was driving through New Mexico and I had to slow down to allow a flock of sheep to cross the hiway.
I don't know how often these flash floods happen, but its crazy to me how much debris builds up in the washes between floods.
you can tell by the age of the debris and volume,,,,hasnt been a flood here in a long time
But you can also tell this happens more often than you think. Look at all the repair concrete/slabs/boulders placed at the base of the highway bridge abutment. And also how smooth the boulder in the foreground is.
Incredibly cool! It's amazing to see so much debris carried downstream...I'd love to see one of these in person!
Lo vemos en mí pueblo y más también, a habido lluvias intensas y piedras y árboles, más una pared de agua, baja con fuerza. Las nativas del pueblo las chamanas, se acercan al agua que les da energía.
I've seen them up close, and it's incredible. But ... be safe about it. If that catches you, it will end you fast and nasty. Always observe from higher ground, with a quick escape route to even higher ground.
Absolutely! I am not a Darwin nominee "wanna be"! @@Tindometari
Incredible power there. If I had not seen it I would not have believed it. Thank you.
That video was intense! Especially the part where it goes under the bridge and over the spill way. Thanks for that!
Some beaver is gonna be pissed 😂😂
This may be caused by a beaver
@@avman2cl dirty rat lol
Unlike the beaver downstream which is going to be very happy. ;-)
@@MattWesss which is why the downstream beavers destroyed the upstream beaver dam.
Hahaha!👍
I'll never forget hiking the Virgin River Narrows several years ago, and all the warnings about flash floods. The most compelling one had a photo of an enormous debris flow, with the caption, "I can just swim my way out." Obviously targeted toward those who (like me at the time) have no idea of what a flash flood actually looks like.
The undeniable power of a flash flood. Water is a powerful powerful source absolutely wonderful video thank you for your time and taking these pictures
I'm from southern Utah! We used to talk about the "idiots" who risked safety for a photo...and danged if it wasn't Reed Timmer! One of my favorite storm chasers! Are you crazy??
Is that a question that needs to be asked? Did you see how close he got to being toast more than once in this video? Stupid is as stupid does!!! Great video, though!
Somewhere downstream, "post 10" is going to need a bigger rake.
Hell, he'll need a flippin excavator!!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Yeah I know him lol
Good one 😄😄
😂😂😂
So true
I’ve never seen vids flash floods like the ones I’m seeing on your channel, absolutely insane! Nice work hunting these down
Thought for a second that you’d get swept up but then I remember that the camera man never dies..WHEW!
Absolutely amazing. I have seen our creek come down many times in my 62 years but not like that.
Que loucura
Com certeza tem casas de muitos irmãos nossos
😲 Merci a celui qui a filmé c'est un évènement immortel , très bon travail 10/10.
Wow this is amazing.. I just can't get over all the trees coming down.. great shooting and thanks for sharing this with us.. I am from Maine and have never seen anything quite like this before..
Mr. Timmer sustains an impressive sense of excitement with natural phenomena, even with one phenomenon, over the years. Good job with the passion! and great footage! When I travel these areas, it helps to understand the appearance of the land, while in more placid seasons, and to be aware of the dangers, especially in the beautiful slot canyons we love to hike... and the washes we try to cross with our van.
Mother Nature: "Spring cleaning!" :D
That noise is slightly calming
ASMR a super muddy river
Unless you are in the middle of it
Yeah i also thought that
Beautifully caught and filmed thanks .
Thank you for posting the video. I was amazed at the flash flood, extremely interesting. Seems very scary. I just subscribed to your channel and can’t wait to watch more of your videos 😱👍
This makes me realize that water erosion gets a helping hand from whatever floats in it.
Awesome and amazing Reed, miss your storm chasing too. Hope you get a chance to do more flash floods. The wood debris is totally mind boggling ---- WOW Stay safe my friend
you are the guy also sharing us flash flood scenes like in Arizona flash flood.....thank you taking your time sharing .. but ..stay safe and be careful out there.. i enjoyed watching this kind of activities by nature..it is informative and educational....greetings from Ohio.
Absolutely mesmerizing... Like watching a lava flow, without the intense heat and vibrant color... And all those trees! Any idea where this flood started and how far those trees had traveled??? 😺💕🐾
Shih amazing Reed breathtaking view ... You are creative Oh yell thank you for the beautiful photography Thanks Thanks Reed Thank you from the heart
Could you imagine accidentally falling into that? You'd get ground into a paste in seconds. D-:
Nah, we’ll be able to surf on it
2:36 and then you’ll turn into a paste
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You might get a few splinters.
It will replace your bones with sticks.
Wow! Amazing and mind boggling at the same time. How far has this traveled to move a accumulation that large?
Yowwww! I wouldn’t wanna fall into those moving logs💜great catch!!! TY for sharing
Mother Nature cleaning house and creating new habitat... Good vid, thank you!
0:13 His mind, "Analyzing situation....small time, medium time or big time... analyzing complete, execute big time."
It's always big time! ;-)
A 645 minute clip of amazing natural world power and beauty. Many thanks
Interesting on the flow of the debris. It almost looks like you could apply granular flow characteristics of small rods to determine the force of this material stream. What were the average sizes of the wood chunks in diameter? Is that some thing you can estimate? The impacting wave, how high was this? This would be a fun problem to model.
😱 This is really scary! You can also feel the massive hydropower! 😧 Thanks for the video. 👍
What surprised me was how quiet the flood was when the grade was not steep even when there was all that debris in the flood.
In building prof jobs we say "yu can fight snow... Fire (not always as yu saw it curently in CA) but against water or hurrican just save yur ass as yu can". Cose its a huge moving force... Yu just have to wait it stops itself. Then yu rebuilt for next time and try to anticipate in order to avoid too big troubles.
A good film capture, a good reveal of how the flood water rolls along. nature sure has some amazing power when its going.
I know some of that debris falls by the wayside as it moves through but where does the majority of it end up? Your sure did get some amazing content for this video. Thanks for sharing it. I lived in New Mexico for a few years n remember how dangerous these can be. I was raised in upstate New York so I had never seen one of these happening until I lived out west. It’s even more awesome in person.
So fast and so quiet at the same time. Nature always transforms itself with such elegance.
That was fast and frightening. Stay safe Reed!
Great video! Thanks for posting.
What a treasure ! Thanks for bringing us this vid
OMG! There is so much firewood for a lifetime, no need to cut down trees for decades for at least 20 families. Nature is beautiful.
I need some wood Mother Nature: Hold my beer.
Awesome footage
Reed has a hilarious way of presenting, normally people freekingout n screeming is highly annoying but Reed pulls it off like a champ
I can't even emagine the force and energy in such flash floods! I mean, when it moves massive trea trunks as if they where made of styrofoam..! I suspect though that is helps to fertilise, and moisture, areas down stream.
Incredible power. Can hear it coming so far in advance of the flood
Reed Timmer ...Which will give you ample time to start the camera, as I've noticed.
I could imagine not sure if you can emagine
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Espetacular. Obrigado.
Sensacional ! É a primeira vez que vejo uma enchente apenas com elementos da natureza .Vi um único objeto que me pareceu uma câmara de ar durante todo o vídeo . O que não podemos dizer de outros lugares ...é no mínimo , impressionante !
En el segundo 43 se vee por delante un tanque un cubo rodando .por delante de los troncos.
Have seen alot of flooding never so much tree debri ! Seems it would damn up somewhere. Massive force 💪Amazing
As an omniscient observer, I noticed that some of the bigger log ends appear to have been cut by a chain saw. Mother Nature is more efficient than I imagined!
Amazing. Lucky for you to be able to witness this flash flood.
Просто зачаровывает сила воды! Отличный репортаж!!!
You have more never then I would ever have. I’d be running but in the the other direction WoW 😮 Great video.
I would love to see one this way but ya'll did a wicked groovy job of documenting it Brother, excellent catch!!
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Força canalizada, Deus é sábio!
amazing footage!!... am i correct in assuming that much of what looks like water here is actually 'liquified' dirt/earth?? thank you great vid
I found the answer to a major problem while watching this. Thank u.
Bowel movement?
It's really fast! I fear it and love it at the same time! Wowie!
Watching nature do its thing, unhindered by humans is beautiful. If this was all left as it was after the flood, it would be amazing in a few years.
Sadly NOTHING is unhindered by humans currently, we have a part in everything, our histroy is all made up lies, its up to us to remember.
Niesamowity widok. 😮
This was a satisfying watch. Thanks for sharing.
Это чудо...река из деревьев- это самое настоящее чудо!!!
Столько дров пропадает!
Нечего не пропадёт даром. Где то сель остановится и всё пойдёт на дрова. На равнине дрова уже ждут.
Perfect vid to watch while pushing out some logs.
Wonderful
That was so cool to watch! Thx u & take care.❤️🌎 sweet South Carolina
Dang, that looks like a good spot to gather fire wood.
No kidding, I'm wondering where it all came from
Going to venture a guess and say this is from an upland wildfire.
First thought that came to my head too, lol.
I know, right?!? It comes to you.
This looks beautiful and so scary at the same time! How is that possible?
Eso termina en algún lago? Porque lleva tantos troncos? Cada cuánto sucede este tipo de fenómeno?
That is so cool 😎. I could watch that for hours 👏🏻
I know I wouldn’t stand that close 1 log catches your leg bye byes
Бедная рыба👍
Can’t fix stupid
I can surf that . EASY!
Exactly what I was thinking
Have you ever followed one of the flows all the way to the end? I’d be interested to see that. Where exact does all the debris end up and what does it look like? Excellent video!
My exact thoughts.
Nature's scouring pad. I wonder if there's any point in seining the largest deadfall using, say, staggered runs of grouped, ramped 'combs' anchored in the creek-bed (each comb would consist of multiple parallel steel plates, ramped upward in the downstream direction, and ramped by decreasing height from center-line to the bank). The debris would accumulate at known points -- to be collected -- and be prevented from having downstream effects during the flood.
are you a professional
Catherine and Oliver especially this one !
@@michaelthibault7930 since many of those trees were sawed off, l am not sure how natural it is
pretty cool Reed! Has anyone seen the ones in Japan from the tsunami. Wicked.
Thank you for the video, and putting the date up.
I'd say that out of all tornado chasing you've done this year, this more interesting footage you've gotten yet!
I agree I am obsessed with chasing these floods. Thank you to @rankinstudio
Damn good footage of that flood Reed, right place right time
i am just wondering while watching this video, how are these twigs and big branches accumulated (piles of it) then carried by water flash like this..is it coming from the forest(mountain)? but how it is like this
Reed, I lived about 60 miles SW of Bryce in the 1970's when I was in high school, near Page, AZ. I've seen some flash floods in the arroyo there and it's pretty spectacular when it happens. I was hiking on the Navajo reservation one time and had noticed it was raining in the higher elevations, toward Flagstaff, earlier in the day so I was cautious. I hiked out of the arroyo and set up camp just above it, and about an hour later, a flash flood made it's way through the arroyo! Too bad we didn't have high def cameras 'back in the day'. Still I'll never forget the sight, sound, and smell of it. Amazing footage you captured. BTW, I use Accuweather a lot, including to decide if I'm taking my sailboat out for the weekend or not (I live and sail in SE Alaska). Thnx for the real time meteorology!
This is an amazing story. Did the flood have a debris plug on it? I learned from the best flood flood chaser in the land from Big Water Utah - @rankinstudio
@@ReedTimmerWx Yes it did have a plug at the beginning of it. When I saw that, I knew why people get killed in these things. That debris would cause serious bodily harm. Amazing that you were able to get footage of the flood from so many different locations.
A lot of the larger logs have clearly been cut with a saw - evidence of logging further up. The removal of tree cover contributes to the incidence and severity of flash flooding like this.