Flash floods tear across Arizona desert

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Just outside the town of Mayer, Arizona, north of Phoenix, came a wall of water, mud and debris. Campers scrambled as the flood wiped out their gear. It’s been an active week of weather throughout the Southwest, with rain, floods and powerful winds uprooting trees. Carter Evans has more.

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  1. lady at 1:00 reminds me of the "Aint Nobody Got Time for Dat". . . . .

    I wish this lady would have said "WE STOPPED OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF "OH LAWD JESUS IT'S A FLOOD". .. .

  2. Nobody should be surprised of flood or dead. Nobody wants to understand how fast climate change goes: The GOLFSTREAM slowed down significantly because of icemelting in Groenland…here in Europe the spring comes 6 weeks to late. All the heat over and in the Gulf of Mexico stucks there in the sea. Of course therefore cyclones becomes much stronger over the east USA and Caribian.

  3. This guy is a idiot knows nothing about monsoons ! he assumes that the monsoon is supposed to stop to let people cross and he says that they're dangerous ! flash flooding to him would be his toilet running over !

  4. God Almighty shows his omnipotent power in many ways for those who are watchful and listening to observe the deeper reality of it all. "You must be born again to see the kingdom of God." Jesus

  5. Thank Zeus, Thor or Poseidon … or one (or some!) of the other THOUSANDS of invisible friends with super powers …. for taking immediate action and getting those campers out of there!
    Superstitions and severe cognitive dissonance are SO helpful!

  6. Typical spring weather here in Missouri. The water dumps on an area and the creeks flood. It is not unusual to get 3 to 5 inches of rain in two hours or less.

  7. Just to set the record straight we weren’t camping. Ray and myself were prospecting and digging good gold. The easy ups were for shade not sleeping in. As far as the pilot landing and checking on us after we got out is a joke. It never happened!!!!!!! He did fly over us circling for what seemed like hours to get good footage for the news but no speaker or warning from him. The chopper was white with no markings whatsoever and if I had not gone up to see if the Sheriff was there I would of been toast. Ray is a lot thinner and quicker than me. They don’t show you that after the initial 1 to 2 feet of water that pushes all the debris out of the way it rises to approximately 10 feet in a matter of seconds depending on the wash it’s in. Oh by the way this was Big Bug Creek, 2 miles east outside Cordes Lakes

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