FLASH FLOOD hits BORDER WALL outside of Nogales Arizona & Mexico
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- Reed Timmer joins forces with flash flood guru David Rankin and young buck stellar chaser Jaden Papenheim, intercepting the front wall of a huge flash flood out of Mexico. When they trace the route upstream, they see a huge hole has been punched in the border wall by the flood.
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00:00 - Intro / Flooding in Nogales
01:34 - Stalled by smaller flash flood
02:44 - Arrive at Santa Cruz wash / Drone Scout
03:50 - Front wall of flash flood arriving
06:38 - Team traces flood back to border wall
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I grew up in Kino Springs in 1972. Seen so many powerful floods there. The Santa Cruz river is an amazing navagable waterway which is under the juristriction of the US Coast guard but they never knew until it was brought to their attention. Funny story. What always gets me is the smell of the flood. Very distinctive. I'm so trained to it I can smell it so far away. Cool video !! Thanks guys.
what? "a navagable waterway"? Maybe navigable by horse instead of boat. 😅😄
First thing we were taught in Arizona Drivers Ed: Turn around, don’t drown. Thanks for sharing from my home state!
Amen, happens all the time here in Ohio. Don't do it, not worth the risk.
Can't once you're in it. Luckily while our car was totaled in Houston (around 1989) the cars floated enough he could rescue a mother & daughter. This was an unexpected flash flood & much less common where he was
Personal fave. Hail. It finds you everywhere!
WOW did they teach you how to use windshield wipers.. both front and rear too
@@FlaMan991 Did your Mom teach you manners?
@@philwhipple4557 Yes, and how to drive too.
As a long time resident of Nogales and a former resident of Kino Springs, I am very aware of how the Santa Cruz River floods. That bridge you crossed was a replacement that was built after the conduit bridge was washed away during Hurricane flooding in 1977. It withstood the same type of flooding in 1983 and since.
I have walked up the Santa Cruz from Kino Springs to the Border when it was dry. Hard walking on the alluvial deposits.
Thanks for the great video. I plan to post-it on Facebook so that locals can see it.
My father and his crew built that conduit bridge he also used dynimite to clear it or sort of.
I am a native from Tucson. So happy Mexico near the border is getting lots of rain, they so need it. This gives them a chance at growing the food they need.
I live in Nogales. Monsoon season is my favorite time of year. I love seeing the washes full of water.
Where I live they're called creeks and rivers. We never get a chance to see the bottom. Sure would make fishing and kayaking tough.
In FL I feel the same way about hurricanes. It's nature at its most powerful.
Absolutely incredible to watch how fast it grew.
It grows because the alluvial is able to absorb so much and begin recharge. Something that's nice here is that there are frequent unintended discharge of effluents and raw sewage into the Santa Cruz that bugs and microbes can't process entirely. Flash floods disturb deposits and churn while dispensing downstream into harmless ppb(s) . . . parts per billion. Got to love those flash floods . . . it's a cleansing.
@@andrenewcomb3708 beautiful and dangerous 💚 I have so much respect for what you all do. Stay safe and be blessed 💚
I'm not from this area at all and I've gotta say I'm surprised how GREEN everything is. I don't normally think of Arizona/Mexico being super green like that. First thing I think of when I hear, "Arizona," is dry, desert-scrub and brush.
Most of the year the state isn't very green, but when we have good monsoon rains, it greens up like crazy in a short time. I spent the day driving in southern Arizona marveling at all the green grass, fields, etc. The Nogales area is actually quite pretty and the nearby mountains are gorgeous.
Jesus is God
4000 feet elevation there helps. Most of AZ deserts are well below that.
As Evan said, it isn't desert.
I graduated from high school in Tucson which is about 40 miles north… It’s part of the Sonoran desert and they like to call it a living desert… There are tons of cactus and plant life
I've watched a few of these flash flood videos and I gotta tell you, it sure feels like I'm getting a grand tour of the state of Arizona. It's been a lot of fun to watch. Stay safe and never stop chasing. 💛
Glad you like them!
Think of pouring water through a clay pot and you have the desert southwest. Everything in the desert foothills classify as "the mouth of the funnel" and the ground is like concrete.
@@ReedTimmerWx do you know what "debris" is ? SERIOUS question ! I think you may have confused debris & .... WATER !
but hey, whatever gets the clicks - right !?
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@@rollnryan27 do You "Know" what the garbage and random junk floating along, washed in, and washed along the side of the "flood wash" Is? 🙄 it is called Debris. 😅
I lived in Nogales. Bodies would wash up from Mexico from time to time. People would get caught up in the wash while trying to cross from Mexico. It was really tragic to see that
Love seeing all these videos of monsoon action from all over the great state of AZ. A lot of people assume that AZ is all desert, but it’s actually extremely diverse. We have the Sonoran and Mohave deserts, high altitude mountains, the Mardrian Sky Islands, Canyon lands and high deserts of northern AZ. Super cool to see them all in your monsoon flash flood tour of AZ!
Don't forget the forests around Flagstaff, Payson and in eastern Arizona.
@@danielbass2895 yup the Ponderosa Pine Forest. I love AZ and how diverse the environments are.
Very green in this video
wow, makes me want to visit less.. thanks Dora
@@FlaMan991 🤣🤣 I can't with you
There goes mother nature flexing again. Great footage. I always learn something watching. Stay safe.
Trust me don't ever ever try and cross a wash aka flooded one even if it looks like little water coming down it takes seconds for it to become fast and furious ..don't ever think you can make it cause most times you wont
You're talking about the old border barrier.
Not the “Border Wall” though. That section of fencing was built in the 90’s
Prove it
@@donaldtingler9213 It’s not my job to educate you. In your hand you hold a powerful tool, A mini computer capable of sourcing information from every corner of the earth. Use it.
@@donaldtingler9213 What point are you trying to make.
A wall that’s situated at a border is a “border wall”, not sure what is so complicated.
I’m willing to bet that this section of wall was not moved by this particular monsoon. The rivers in that area that occur from monsoon season are, strong. But if you have a constant storm overhead like the remnants of a hurricane mixed in with a monsoon, the rivers can easily get to 10,000 cfs. I was trapped in one such situation and the river wiped out many roads. It didn’t move things a little, it destroyed them. The fact that this wall section was moved a little tells me that the storm that did that was stronger than the one you guys observed today.
"look at Them Tires cranking, just doing work "😂
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I love the format of these videos, I’m learning and in awe of Mother Nature and your work all at once!
hello partytimenumbazu, u will love Sandy Stripes format too its really good for learners if you learn
Newsflash , it's not mother nature.
Thanks for the footage. I used to live in Amado, AZ. In the late 60's we had massive flooding around Christmas. It washed away the old Nogales highway in places. Some people had to have helicopters drop food. Awesome power in water.
These are great videos. Thanks for sharing. For all of those who don’t know better, this is monsoon season. These are not unexpected “flash floods“ they are normal for this time of year and the Sonoran desert welcomes as much rain as natures can muster. Humans, be careful out there
@@user-qt3kg4ln3p It is both the USA and Mexico. Most of it is the USA.
These are great videos and you're right that this is monsoon season and that these are normal for this area during this time of year, but these literally are flash floods, so please don't spread misinformation like "these aren't 'flash floods'" because they are absolutely and definitely flash floods. Reed has a Ph.D in Meteorology and decades of professional experience - he isn't just a random RUclipsr or social media influencer declaring himself an expert. He is an actual expert, and he isn't going to report something as a flash flood that isn't a flash flood.
According to the national weather service:
*_WHAT IS FLASH FLOODING?_*
Flooding that begins within 6 hours, and often within 3 hours, of the heavy rainfall (or other cause). Flash floods are distinguished from regular floods by having a timescale of fewer than six hours between rainfall and the onset of flooding.
According to the dictionary:
*flash flood*
_/ˈˌflaSH ˈfləd/_
_noun_
a sudden local flood, typically due to heavy rain.
@@babybirdhome lol @ using the government to defend calling it a "flash flood", which we all in Arizona don't use the term. It's just runoff from the monsoon rains. Stop trying to be melodramatic.
@@rah62 I lived inAZ in the 1970's-we called them flash fkoods. but hey call it snow if you want.
We call the rains monsoon but the result is flash floods and that’s what we’ve always called them down in Bisbee Nogales area
My family has lived in Arizona for 115 years and we are always delighted to see a lot of rainfall. Most of the moisture comes from the gulf of Mexico. We are in a 12,000.year drought and rain is always welcome!
I's say more like a a 30- 35 year drought. But 12,000 year Sound Awsome! 😅 😁
Nogalian native enjoyed your great video👋👍☁️🌨️⛈️☁️⛈️💧🌧️⛈️🌨️
Mother Nature at her best!
MUCH love and respect from Southeast Arizona.. ❤ Born in Ajo and lived here my whole life. These flash floods are NO JOKE.!! Tsm for sharing.. Stay safe 👍
The DOMINATOR!! I recognized you immediately. I used to watch storm chasers religiously when I lived in Nebraska. That show with the cyclonic weather compounded my love of the earth and it's power. Glad you're on RUclips, brotha. Cheers and God bless you and your team.
This river (Santa Cruz) actually begins in Arizona in the San Rafael Valley, flows south into Mexico, cuts east through the mountains at Miguel Hidalgo, and then turns north and flows all the way to the Gila River south of Phoenix, though there is no water in it by that time as agriculture sucks every drop out before it merges. Flooding is common coming out of Mexico into Arizona because that is where the mountains are to start the rush to flow. Even with this flooding, this water will be apportioned and consumed by the time it reaches Tucson.
Between being pumped dry and 30 years of drought. It has been nothing but a big dry wash for years! 😞
How interesting! It looks harmless at first. I always heard of flash flood but never really seen one happen. Thanks for getting this on video! 👍
Generally Gone the next day.
In wide, not steep areas where the START Of moving slow, you can see them coming and get out of the way. if you're in a canyon, ravine , between the hills in or at the base of mountins, in the mogollon rim, whatever . You can be on a nice creek that the next thing you know is a wall of water with bolder and rock slaming down it and people die.
Geez Reed, you always seem to find a way to make me squirm while watching the dangerous stuff you do. Caught myself telling you "Come on Reed, get out of that river bed before the flood comes"! They can come so fast and so deep, many people have lost their lives doing just what you were; walking a "dry riverbed"...they don't always stay dry after big rains in the Southern border states. People shouldn't walk (nor camp) in the dry beds; sometimes the rain is so far North you aren't aware of any flood until the water shows up. *Blessed Be and Stay Well Reed! Thanks for another cool video!* Remember: Always Turn Around, Don't Drown!
Reed is a meteorologist and I forget that sometimes. Parts of Texas, in the next few days, are supposed to get 20 inches of rain in a very short period of time. Flooding is the weather event that kills the most ppl. Just awful, thx Reed and gang for getting us this very dangerous footage. DOMINATE!!!!!
Thanks for showing how sad our border fence really is...
And how pointless and unnecessary it is, what a waste of money
You have no idea how much the border wall is needed. Born and raised in Az. Love the Mexican people. But need to do it legally. If you could see how much it affects our economy and jobs first hand you would understand. Get your head out of the sand.
Smugglers will be driving through there w/in hours. Even if just decoys.
That's Obamas fence from the early 2000s
Why do people see this and think we need a wall instead of thinking "There's no fence whatsoever and nothing is happening, maybe the right wing hysteria about an invasion at the southern border is just more cynical fearmongering by the right wing media to put more gullible eyeballs on screens they can sell to advertisers"?
Beautiful part of the world...I hope one day no walls and we can live amongst each other
No absolutely not!
@Eddie Viv 😅😅😅😅 You Sound High! 😅😅 🤔 do you give all of your "extra cash" to the drug cartels?
@Eddie Viv you are a bit misinformed. Inexperienced and you are showing that kind of feeble-minded drama queen hype. Maybe you should go down there one day and actually experience and know something. Actually knowing something it's pretty cool. And so is enjoying a nice day of hiking and then hitting across the border for a tasty meal and maybe even a movie 😁
Getting tons of needed monsoon moisture up here in south central UT. Love it.✌️🇺🇸
I was in Nogales Monday, just another day during monsoon season! You should come visit the San Pedro during a downpour, bonus it flows south to north.
In 1983 we had a hundred year flood and the river swelled up to my co-workers house and took it down the river to about Nogales Highway and Pima mine road. There was so much water that it flowed all the way to Interstate 8. Two bridges between Green Valley and Tucson were heavily damaged.
Love all you Storm Chasers. And of course... waiting in a DRY CREEK for a flood is always a great idea. Sometimes you storm chasers scare me to pieces.
The flooding did not take out the wall, they were just cross members of steel like tank traps used in WW2, and any person could climb over, go threw or under that section, they were not wall panels.
they are just anti vehicle set up there. and you can see how they got pushed out of the way there to leave an opening for a Little ways.
This is amazing I live in Rocky point Mexico 🇲🇽 Thank God This was allowed to fill Nature at it's best TY Videos Fantastic
The flash floods are impressive 👍🏼 The border wall size not so impressive 🤣🇺🇸
Thats Obamas fencing. And the river has never had any of the bollard style fencing.
Finally an actual monsoon season! It's been a while! I'm glad you didn't try crossing that flooded river. Even though it looked possible. There are way too many unforseen hazards. Thanks for the video.
People from around the world are laughing about our little floods but in a try climate area we jump with joy at our floods.
it's so weird to see so much greenery in Arizona
Monsoon season (usually starts the start of July and through September or so (strongest in July and August.)) In the High Southern Sonoran Deseret Is extra beautiful and green. Still beautiful when Not monsoon season. Not to mention noticiably cooler than the Valley Of The Sun. Not a bad place to get a steak, a burger, a burrito and a glass of wine or shot of tequila ;-)
I used to live in green valley and spent some days out in Nogales partying back in the day beautiful place
Wtf partying
Jesus is God
Love rain. Love this videos. That sound of water coming. It's orgasmic!!!
Floods in washes kill people all the time. I lost four people I knew when the Salt River flowed hard when they went rafting. Water in the southwest can send walls of water 6’ high into rivers and washes!
Sorry that happened Scrapy 💔
@@GinaKayLandis normally… the Salt is dry.
Oh goodness what a shock that must have been!
@@GinaKayLandis luckily, most areas warn you. It may not be raining where you are, but stay out of the dry riverbeds. Then if you look around, you can see where the level of water actually flows. Unknowingly, people will camp in these washes and get overwhelmed quickly! Also… did you note how fast and strong that water was flowing? People think it’s not that deep, I can just cross here and next thing they know that 6” of water is quickly sending them down stream and they need to be rescued. Not all make it. Those who have lived in AZ know to be very careful. We’ve seen too many bad things happen!
That slow flood wall reminds me of the blob... seems harmless, but it will consume and destroy everything in its path
Even that dirt road can be a problem. With a lot of water it can get sticky mud and wrap around your tires and wheel wells.
It’s called caliche. Vicious when wet. Hard as a rock when dry.
Amazing footage Reed. Thanks for educating us on these floods. Never Stop Chasing ❤️
Everyone do a rain dance and praise the lord.
That's clearly one place where Jaguars and Ocelots can cross back and forth between Mexico and Arizona, by the way. They would naturally follow a waterway, as well.
If that water can be stored on ground water dams, Arizona can have plenty of water
during the dry spells. Do it.
Thank you for sharing Dr. Reed. Be safe.
Can’t stop mother nature.
Stay safe Reed 🙏🏾
@@Michael_Beanflip 🤣
@@Michael_Beanflip 😷
and to think just a few months ago most of that green was brown. Ive lived in S. Az. since 69 and this is as green as Ive ever seen. Thank god for a good monsoon season. We needed it.
I love our border wall where one side is 15 foot tall with barbed wire and literally a pan over is a metal fence my dog could jump blind.
The left fought tooth and nail to not complete it.
Liking the new digital sticky notes! Great intercept as always!
Just let them stay up a little longer.
There's so much green in bloom from the rains. It's almost unrecognizable as Arizona.
Monsoon season (usually starts the start of July and through September or so (strongest in July and August.)) In the High Southern Sonoran Deseret Is extra beautiful and green. Still beautiful when Not monsoon season. Not to mention noticiably cooler than the Valley Of The Sun. Also a good area to grab a steak, burger, burrito etc, and a glass of wine or a Margarita. 😉
Keep the great Az coverage coming!!!
I been in Flash Flooding when I lived in New Mexico scariest thing ever.
Nice to see so much green in the desert!
Monsoon season (usually starts the start of July and through September or so (strongest in July and August.)) In the High Southern Sonoran Deseret Is extra beautiful and green. Still beautiful when Not monsoon season. Not to mention noticiably cooler than the Valley Of The Sun. Also a good area to grab a steak, burger, burrito etc, and a glass of wine or a Margarita. 😉
Thank you for the good videos I can't believe how fast water comes up to create all the problems it does be safe to you all Reed God bless you all
Flooding is so different than what people think. The water moving is soooooooo dangerous and you may equate it to running out of your tap. It so much more powerful and can move roads. People please respect the water and don’t think you can out smart it or out brawn it. YOU CANNOT. Be safe out there.
Enjoyed watching stay safe first drone footage amazing
Flash floods are like the best mix of applied meteorology and applied geology.
great video guys, and nice to see David Rankin again.
Great video! I always love the information given. 🙂
Thank you for sharing and ,stay safe
Appreciate the video. You're all very brave. Great quality. It's good to see what some of the border looks like.
Thank you.
Thanks - nice and green. There goes that expensive border wall.
Good job, and it's good seeing how careful you were.👍
Really enjoying these videos, havent seen you since Storm Chasers days. Glad youve outgrown the frat boys phase! And love the Arizona area, its “fun” seeing roads and washes that Ive been to.
Great to see you in my neck of the woods! Let me know next time you're down here! I know all the back roads down there and could have given some insight!
Be careful out there reed!☺.
Mother Nature... TEAR DOWN THAT WALL!
It didn't even look like water at first, great footage Reed, thx again. Be careful down by the border wall.
Incredible footage! Great to see David here too!
wow, I live close to this, in Sierra Vista, I didn't know this happened. a few weeks ago however I got a massive hail storm over my house, I saw a few that might have even been 2 inches. and while the storm was going our street was flooded, and I'm on a little "hill" so that was odd
Love SV!
It's nice down there I like exploring the San Pedro river
The second you see that small trickle in a dry wash, creekbed etc, time to get to high ground! Growing up in S TX my parents were intense about teaching us about flash floods and to recognize the signs one was coming.
Yes flash flood alley if Texas
Very interesting to see this. Thank you - from IRELAND
*_Very Cool! I love chasing the weather. Thanks for sharing this with us._*
'Interesting, informative and educational! Thanks Reid and Team Dominator! 🇨🇦
'Apologies REED! 🇨🇦
My father is from Nogales, sonora (but moved to and grew up in Nogales, Arizona as a kid) and so I went there tons to visit grandparents as a kid!! Thanks so much for showing this side of the city cause it was always so fun to see as a child! 😆
Santa Cruz river is the only river that begins in the U.S.A and runs south for several miles into Mexico.
Then it change it's mind changing curse running north into the U.S.A from Mexico!
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Thanks for your helpful video. And welcome to an old river that has warned those who live near it to stay out of the way, & move up hill 30 degrees to keep from drowning. Cheers boyeez ✌
There sure has been a lot of flash flooding everywhere this year, including where I now live, in Hazard,. KY. Three and a half weeks ago, as I was watching this flooding unfold, little did I realize it would turn out to be such a major, catastrophic 1/1000 year event
Thank you guys, stay safe
Back in the early 70’s and earlier , the river ran all year.
City of Nogales was my client. My company installed SCADA into their water system. You were next to some of the well sites in Keno Springs. The many years I visited Nogales I never seen the Santa Cruz river flowing. Must have been an amazing experience.
Yes that first flood was in that wash that surfaces on the US side flowing south to north!
You should set up on the San Pedro river. It's been running pretty good lately
We drove through Mammoth the other day and the San Pedro was running bank to bank there. It’s usually dry most the year there. South Eastern AZ and northern Mexico have to have been good rain for it to be running that way. I live close to the confluence of the Gila and San Pedro and the Gila has been pretty enormous with all the flood waters. About a month ago the Gila was completely dry as well.
Wow!! That is incredible. I really hope no one was hurt on either side of the border.
These have been amazing new videos, Dr. Timmer! Nice intercept.
Man timing was great
no one will ever do it the way Tim does it. You have storm chasers and then u got Tim , he's in a league of his own. killer video too
Yay!! Your wearing your Gizmo shirt!
It’s been a lot of water but we’ve needed water so badly. Be safe and I’m glad to ditched the bandana. ☺️
I went out to the Black hills rockhounding area in Arizona the other day to collect some rocks and as soon as I heard some thunder I hightailed it out of there! The road was already nearly impassable for my Hyundai Elantra from the previous monsoon floods! Weather is no joke you guys stay safe and thank you for the coverage!
What did you find?
@@ReedTimmerWx fire agate and agate was what I was there for. I did pick up a few nice pieces of red jasper also
@@ReedTimmerWx it is a really great spot to find fire agate and you can get to it in an automobile. The round Hill mountain Rock counting area an hour down the road by Duncan has an abundance of better fire agate specimens, but I did not feel like driving my car all the way to the actual rock hounding spots because it was very rough road
Wow, so green!
Monsoon season (usually starts the start of July and through September or so (strongest in July and August.)) In the High Southern Sonoran Deseret Is extra beautiful and green. Still beautiful when Not monsoon season. Not to mention noticiably cooler than the Valley Of The Sun. Also a good area to grab a steak, burger, burrito etc, and a glass of wine or a Margarita. 😉
Hello Reed!! These Videos are Outstanding!! Love Them!! Have a Wonderful and Safe Weekend!! Thank You for All You Do!! Never Stop Being You!! God Bless Always!!🌪⚡️⛈️⛈️💕🙏
4:44 yay it's like Mexico flushed and this is the drain.7:38 unfinished boarder protection ends at the wash.
Yellow foam is natural phosphorus.
White foam is phosphorus from laundry fetergent.
Beautiful drone footage. Wow. *I wanted to be there ! So fascinating. 🥂Thanks! ❤️your work! 🖖🏼
Great video, and wow thanks for the footage of the Wall.