60 Vehicles Buried, 1,000 Trapped At Death Valley - Videos from The Weather Channel (1 minute VIDEO)
Posted on 08/08/2022 2:39:05 PM PDT by ransomnote
60 Vehicles Buried, 1,000 Trapped At Death Valley - Videos from The Weather Channel (1 minute VIDEO)
Lol. Same same Canyonlands in Utah. A Ranger told me that they have to often rescue european tourists who come in July/August for the “real desert experience”. Apparently the experience includes not bringing enough water. Or trying to do the White Rim trail in a sedan despite the high clearance 4wd only warnings.
LOL... and GOD!!!
Just the Desert Monsoon.
Read the stories of the “Lost Dutchman Mine”.
Idiots out in the summer with freaky maps in the AZ desert.
I have the original books.
Sims Ely wrote the first one.
LOL! Yes, but: I hiked in the Canyonlands with a friend who brought so much water that he nearly collapsed from carrying it. He took the warnings so seriously that he was carrying 2 gallons and it was like 150 degrees.
I recall that a guy with his little boy who were hiking there saw my friend struggling along the trail pointed at him and said, “There; that guy brought too much water.” :( We went to see those petroglyphs - I forget what they’re called. I lost my pics from that trip. Oh well.
Good one!
Me too! One or two days of 100-102-103-104 can tolerate.
Not days on end. Can’t imagine how people get by in hot states.
I think those vehicles are located just below famous Furnace Creek Inn.
That’s odd because usually I see people with a small water bottle and no hat.
Well that’s actually a good way to get the “real desert experience”.
My “real desert experience” involves a canopy, a chair and a six pack of Shiner Bock. Hiking later under a full moon is more romantic.
Lol. I have a relative in Placerville where the summers are over 100 a lot. There are a lot of swimming pools there. I never see anyone in them. They’re all inside with the A/C.
Forgive me for my stupid question because I don’t quite know the geography out west. From my understanding death Valley is at a very low elevation. Below sea level if I recall. So my question is, where does the water go?
I think the ground is generally sandy, so it probably is absorbed over time.
They say it was a 1,000 year weather event.
That IS a fun and interesting place!
That reminds me of reading The Phantom Major, about Sir David Stirling (pretty sure he was knighted) and the formation of the SAS.
There were good reasons besides German air reconnaissance that they laid up during the day, and traveled at night through the desert, to get to German airfields and ammo dumps behind the front lines.
Send them to College Station over north of Houston at Texas World Speedway with all Flood and Hail damaged vehicles from New car dealerships already there from Hurricane Harvey.
TWS is a 2 mile oval and the sister track to MIS Michigan International Speedway.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UagU2-L0Qe4
Possibly the biggest car and truck salvage yard in the USA ?World ?
I can see where the electronics on flood cars are bad, but I assume the engines and transmissions may be OK? Especially if they’re pulled out shortly after the car is scrapped?
Damn GoreBull warming!
Trump’s fault!
No sweat! Get a scrap title on the flooded cars, ship them to the scrappers in Missouri where they will clean them, straighten any dents, weld two cars together to make one.
Then they will run them down into Arkan-saw where they can be sold through the auto auctions as “abandoned autos” and a new clean title issued for each one of them showing they have never been wrecked or flooded!
Guaranteed to last till some sucker buys one and drives it off the lot.
Betcha the doors, oil pans and bearings will still have Death Valley water still in them.
Just look for finger scratches on the headliners.
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