Hikers caught in a monsoon!
Posted: Aug 06 2018 9:57 am
Lightning and hail are a terrible experience to endure when you aren't near shelter.
The rest of this story seems to be a little over dramatized or missing facts and details. I'm not sure where they could have hiked 5 miles to get to the crossing of the Verde. The river spiked from 200cfs to about 325cfs that afternoon, which I wouldn't want to cross, but isn't exactly a flash flood. There's also no way that "seconds later" a storm blew through. Childs isn't an unsafe place to park your vehicle. The river bank is pretty high up (and the power plant is certainly out of the floodplain). If they had parked there, they could have been in their car pretty quickly rather than hiking up an exposed hillside in a lightning storm.
I wouldn't want to be on the west side of the Verde when the river rose from storm runoff upstream though.
http://www.azfamily.com/clip/14541006/v ... -a-monsoon
The rest of this story seems to be a little over dramatized or missing facts and details. I'm not sure where they could have hiked 5 miles to get to the crossing of the Verde. The river spiked from 200cfs to about 325cfs that afternoon, which I wouldn't want to cross, but isn't exactly a flash flood. There's also no way that "seconds later" a storm blew through. Childs isn't an unsafe place to park your vehicle. The river bank is pretty high up (and the power plant is certainly out of the floodplain). If they had parked there, they could have been in their car pretty quickly rather than hiking up an exposed hillside in a lightning storm.
I wouldn't want to be on the west side of the Verde when the river rose from storm runoff upstream though.
http://www.azfamily.com/clip/14541006/v ... -a-monsoon
