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More than 20 unaccounted for after Grand Canyon flash flood
ktla ^ | Aug 30, 2026 | Josh DuBose

Posted on 08/30/2026 4:47:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin

More than 20 people may be missing or unaccounted for after a powerful flash flood tore through part of Grand Canyon National Park, destroying footbridges, forcing evacuations and prompting officials to ask the public for help locating hikers who may have been in the area.

The flooding struck Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch area on Saturday, Aug. 29, around 2:30 p.m., according to the National Park Service.

On Sunday, park officials said they were working to account for people who may have been hiking, backpacking or camping in the affected areas when the flood hit.

“The National Park Service is asking the public to provide information for more than 20 individuals who may be missing or unaccounted for following a significant flash-flood event in Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch area on August 29,” the agency said in a news release.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Travel
KEYWORDS: flood; flooding; grandcanyon; nps
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To: Paal Gulli

Let’s wait to hear from the resident racial & religious bigots who mocked Tibet and Nepal for having floods just a day or two ago. Let’s see if they change their tune when it’s on their own doorstep.
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I never heard that. can you post links to those articles?


21 posted on 08/30/2026 7:35:07 PM PDT by ckilmer (`61)
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To: BenLurkin

At 4:05 pm today, we were just north of Lake Powell on highway 89 when what I suppose what the tail end of that storm hit us. Visibility was like being in a car wash when the spinning mop drops onto the windshield.


22 posted on 08/30/2026 7:47:01 PM PDT by Dr. Zzyzx
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To: Dr. Zzyzx

I’m in Maricopa in Pinal County & we’re just getting hit with thunder, lightning & wind. The rain should start up soon. This storm came out of nowhere. I was sitting on my front porch about an hour ago when the wind came roaring through my neighborhood. This is coming from the south & it’s supposed to last a few hours. 😲


23 posted on 08/30/2026 8:27:26 PM PDT by Prince of Space (I cannot hate the media enough!)
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To: ckilmer

I also saw no mocking of the victims in Tibet and Nepal. Just sympathy. Some suspicions of the Chinese government causing the glacier to crack and fall due to a power plant of some kind being built in/near it.


24 posted on 08/30/2026 9:14:26 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Freedom4US

An interesting video on this topic.

US Said This Desert Canyon Was Lost — Then 15 Piles of Rocks Built in 1933 Brought the Water Back

Deep inside Saguaro National Park in Arizona, small rock-and-cement check dams built during the Great Depression are still changing how water moves through the Sonoran Desert. Beginning in 1933, young men from the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) constructed these masonry barriers to fight severe erosion—and decades of accumulated sediment eventually created something unexpected: persistent water in one of North America’s driest landscapes.

This documentary explores how the Civilian Conservation Corps check dams helped restore degraded desert canyons after decades of overgrazing had stripped vegetation and accelerated soil loss. Unlike conventional dams, these structures were never designed to permanently block water. Their purpose was simpler: slow violent monsoon runoff, reduce erosion, and trap sediment.

Over successive storms, layers of sand, clay, and fine material accumulated upstream. That porous sediment began acting like a natural underground reservoir, absorbing monsoon water and releasing it gradually long after the surrounding desert surface had dried. The script traces this process to a spring near the historic structures, surrounded by greener vegetation and concentrated wildlife.

Nearly 90 years of monsoons, extreme heat, and winter freezes have tested structures built largely by hand from materials found directly in the canyon. Their story connects the Civilian Conservation Corps, Saguaro National Park history, Sonoran Desert restoration, check dams, erosion control, sediment capture, water harvesting, groundwater infiltration, watershed restoration, and drought resilience.

• How Civilian Conservation Corps workers built small masonry check dams in Arizona beginning in 1933
• Why slowing monsoon runoff allows sediment and water to accumulate instead of disappearing downstream
• How decades of sediment deposition can create localized water storage, vegetation recovery, and desert habitat

We explore ecological restoration, water recovery, conservation history, rewilding, and overlooked projects that have transformed damaged ecosystems around the world.

https://youtu.be/hAWq04YmHiQ


25 posted on 08/30/2026 9:20:48 PM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Paal Gulli

“Let’s wait to hear from the resident racial & religious bigots who mocked Tibet and Nepal for having floods just a day or two ago.”

By “resident”, do you mean FReepers? I don’t recall reading even one post with that perspective. That would be awful.


26 posted on 08/30/2026 11:42:37 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.)
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To: TheDon

Thanks for that!


27 posted on 08/31/2026 3:16:46 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: Freedom4US

Yeah


28 posted on 08/31/2026 3:18:11 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Mean Daddy

We had a real gullywhumper one summer in Iowa. After it died down a bit, all that water drove about 4 or 5 of the largest Raccoons out of the street sewers I’d ever seen, I mean we’re talking Boone & Crockett. (do they have that for coons!?) I didn’t know they could even get half that sized. They weren’t in a great mood either, didn’t look like.


29 posted on 08/31/2026 3:38:52 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: LS
No excuse for this. I don’t live anywhere near the GC and was getting flash flood alerts for AZ since very early this am.

Cell service doesn't work below the rim. If they were there for several days they might not have been aware of the alert.

30 posted on 08/31/2026 4:20:07 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: EVO X

There are land lines. There are people on staff who watch this stuff. No excuse.

I’m here in PHX and every damn year we get ARIZONIANS who get stranded in the middle of the summer on Camelback trying to hike. No fixing stupid.


31 posted on 08/31/2026 11:06:23 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." Jimi Hendrix)
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To: LS
There are land lines. There are people on staff who watch this stuff. No excuse.

Good point. Evidently, 62 people had to be evacuated by helicopters. Either people were not aware of the warnings or ignored them.

32 posted on 08/31/2026 12:12:10 PM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: EVO X

As I say, we have to evacuate ARIZONIANS from Camelback Mountain in the afternoon in the middle of summer. Can’t fix stupid.


33 posted on 09/01/2026 5:01:00 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." Jimi Hendrix)
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To: LS
As I say, we have to evacuate ARIZONIANS from Camelback Mountain in the afternoon in the middle of summer. Can’t fix stupid.

Wow, that is stupid.

34 posted on 09/02/2026 4:01:32 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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