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Flash flood video
« on: October 05, 2023, 07:31:00 AM »
The "wall of water" effect.

https://youtu.be/ORJtxkuD62E (6:45)

Watch sound: shouting.  Otherwise safe for work.

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Re: Flash flood video
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2023, 07:49:15 AM »
Getting caught in that debris flow is probably more dangerous than the water itself.
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Re: Flash flood video
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2023, 08:38:15 AM »
Quote from: dogmush on October 05, 2023, 07:49:15 AM
Getting caught in that debris flow is probably more dangerous than the water itself.

Yep

This also shows why you don't pitch your tent in a dried up creek/river bed no matter how temping it may be and be on alert if hiking up one.
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Re: Flash flood video
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2023, 09:05:03 AM »
In some of those shots the cameraman appeared to be standing closer to the flow than I would . . .
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Re: Flash flood video
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2023, 09:44:39 PM »
How did he keep getting in front of it?  I doubt he could run that far & fast.
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Re: Flash flood video
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2023, 10:56:54 PM »
Every time I come across something like that I think of the Thompson Canyon flood here in Colorado and the Johnstown flood, although that one was caused by a burst dam.

Talk about debris....





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Re: Flash flood video
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2023, 08:55:21 AM »
I noticed a lot of saw-cut timber debris in that. I wonder what the upstream story was.
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Re: Flash flood video
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2023, 01:17:44 PM »
Quote from: HankB on October 05, 2023, 09:05:03 AM
In some of those shots the cameraman appeared to be standing closer to the flow than I would . . .

Definitely ! :facepalm:
With the way some of those logs were grinding up against the bank could have undercut it and dropped him into that mess.  There were also 3-4 shots where a log flipped up and came very close to hitting the cameraman.   [barf]
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Re: Flash flood video
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2023, 08:27:05 AM »
Quote from: dogmush on October 05, 2023, 07:49:15 AM
Getting caught in that debris flow is probably more dangerous than the water itself.

No probably about it. Get caught in something like that and it would be like going through a meat grinder.
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Re: Flash flood video
« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2023, 02:25:45 PM »
I wondered about that getting ahead to video it at different places, too. Then I dismissed it because of many possible explanations including even a road which paralled the general direction of the stream or maybe multiple camera operators pre-positioned along a known flash flood path.  So I let t go.

I also wondered about undercutting of his position in one sequence.  That's what causes the meandering of streams.  The slightest difference on one side versus the other and the erosion is greater on that one side. Once a curve due to this starts, it gets "worse" and "worse" resulting in the stream going this way and that way and this way and that way throughout its course.

Viz.



More (You can see several examples of islands being formed in some of these):

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=meandering+river&t=brave&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

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