Flash flood video from Center Point Texas

[MrPoling]

Very well done video showing the flash flood on the Guadalupe river. Hopefully, I found the original video.

The river goes from nearly dry to impassable in thirty seconds. In a little over thirty minutes, the entire flood plane is full.

I've been told this kind of thing can happen, but watching it really drives home how fast the river can change.

 

[Boatman53]

Thanks for sharing, it was amazing. Such speed and power.
Jim

 

[Erica]

This morning the news said the river rose 25 feet in 45 minutes. Many of these Western rivers can behave this way. It may not even be raining where you are paddling. Rain upstream can cause flash floods.

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

I don't think I've ever seen the approach of a flash flood river bore like this. Thanks for posting, MrPoling.

 

[Gamma1214]

Wow. Yes, thanks for posting.

That's an incredible amount of water in what appeared to be an almost dry streambed. I was compelled to watch the whole thing.

The power of moving water never ceases to amaze... I'd be interested in seeing the area after the water recedes.

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

The power of moving water never ceases to amaze... I'd be interested in seeing the area after the water recedes.

The Cheat River suffered a 100 year flood on Election Day 1985, devastating Albright, West Virginia, which is the put-in town for the Cheat Canyon run. The river rose 30 feet with a flow of almost 200,000 cfs in the narrow canyon.



The Connecticut AMC whitewater club paddled the Cheat Canyon the following spring. Buildings were gone in Albright: raft companies, the gas station, houses. Major rapids were reconfigured. You could see household belongings stuck 20 to 30 feet up in the branches of surviving riverbank trees. It was like being in a post-Apocalypse movie.