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Aug 23, 2013 | 05:39 PM

pappy19

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Flash Flood Warnings.......

better heed them. Check out this video from a flash flood that was 40 miles away, it is amazing.

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Aug 24, 2013 | 02:30 PM

r2millers

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Wow! Great find. Reminds me of a lava flow as it moves some similar.

Aug 24, 2013 | 04:09 PM

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Not sure where that was filmed, but it's a pretty common in the southwest. And it can be so fast that once a family of 8 wild pigs got caught off guard and killed in a wash.

Aug 24, 2013 | 11:56 PM

djm1204

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From: Dunnellon, Fl

Very scary - shows how or why people die in flash floods - they find a nice dry wash - and some out by Moab, Utah where a lot of people go 4 wheeling are 50 -75 feet wide with 6 -10 foot walls. To the uninformed the wash makes a great place to set up a campsite, protected from the winds, usually a soft sandy ground. then in the middle of the night the flood waters come thru.

Being from Nj I would not have understood this until I saw it out in Utah and thankfully the US Park Ranger advised the people to move their camp from the wash. Next day the wash was like a river. Scary stuff to say the least !