Havasupai Flash Flood 2024 - Timeline

your effort in time stamping this video turns your experience into a resource for others. Thank you for building and preparing this story board of an incredible flood experience

This video shows how people really don't know anything about flash floods.

Just over 14 yr ago this summer, I lost my best friend down there. He took a scout group down and was the first to jump in. Sadly, there was an undertow. He was later found below below moody falls. My youngest son is named after him. His name was R. Michael Allen. He was a great man. Glad you go out safely. My heart goes out to those who lost loved ones.

The Havasupai people have been living in the canyon for hundreds of years and accept the risk of flash floods. Thank you for raising funds to help them. You were not fools to want to take this hike at a risky time of year but you were slow to recognize the threat when the water started rising. When you do something that has elevated risk you need to do it with elevated awareness of your environment. I think that this video makes that point well. What I really like about this video is how it shows that you were all in this situation together and you all got thorough it by everyone coming together and helping eachother. The people who had the hardest time were the ones who got cut off. The park service helicopter rescue pilot was amazing. The scene at the old church was beautiful - everyone was welcome and taken in.

I turned down the video speed to .75, and then more to .5. If you ever remake this, a voice over would be great, because I was trying to read the captions while really taking in the environment. Intense. I had to sit for a couple minutes after watching this. Thank you so much for sharing your experience. This should be a required watch for all hikers in Arizona and Utah, regardless of their experience.

I'm definitely saving this video. I have lived in Arizona for decades, and I am aware of the danger of flash floods. Your video shows me I have not actually known how fast it can happen and what it looks like. THANK YOU for educating people!!!!

I've camped down there and had the best swim of my life. Good job on the video. The thing about mules is...they're never lost.

Well done. This is important to show my beginning hikers who don’t know about desert floods. Thank you.

Welcome to Arizona ! Rule of thumb. Check the forcast in the high ground before you hike into any canyon, big or small. Never camp in the low grounds during monsoons always have an escape plan. I use to go every year in my teen years, & almost every time it flooded. Twice I was flown out. Please help out our brothers & sisters in the Havasupi tribe! Help to stop the Pinyon Uranium Mine from poisoning the waters so our children can enjoy the beauty. #HaulNo

Lesson- when in a canyon and you see water rising or get an evacuate to higher ground alert- you may have only minutes. Move quickly and efficiently and this may need to turn into a run. Leave everything you don’t need. But do take water and some food- you might be stranded for a while.

I'm in the high deserts of Arizona and know better than to hike the canyons during monsoon season. Glad y'all made it out safe.

Thanks for documenting this event! Glad most made it out. I think we lost only one young lady. RIP

Thanks for the video. That helps me understand the scariness of the flood. It does explain why the is a canyon there in the first place.

I've been in AZ for years and I know if I see a single puffy cloud in the sky during monsoon season that that cloud can grow and explode into a serious storm. People don't realize that monsoon storms develop over your head from the moisture the season brings. Seen it many times before don't go hiking in washes or canyons during monsoon season.

Probably a once in a lifetime experience for you all. I'm a former Scoutmaster and I always told my fellow leaders and our Scouts to expect the unexpected. Glad you all made it out alive, and with an incredible tale to tell. Thanks for sharing it with the world here on YouTube.

Thank you for posting this remarkable video. I am so glad your group is safe and sound. Hearing the evacuation order and following it...well, your choices saved many lives. I truly hope your video educates and serves as a warning to all who venture into flood prone areas and saves even more lives. I have experienced 2 flash floods. The first was in the Sonoran Desert when I was 9. The second was in a coastal beach area, I was 10. Both times my dad saved us because he was well versed in the dangers of rain in drought/desert areas even and especially when the rain isn't locally falling. No such thing as evacuation orders back then. We witnessed the overwhelming destruction just as you did. The power and speed of water is humbling and no joke. That was 55 years ago and I still feel blessed to have survived.

Thanks for the video. Have experienced a flash flood in Spain. The river went from 3 meters wide to 100 meters wide in minutes. Yeah, the rain water was coming from higher up in the mountains, we didn’t see it coming. 1.4 meters of water in our house! The fridge was floating 😅

The interesting thing about flash floods and these canyon tributaries is how many miles away the rain and initial flooding start. Cataract Creek is pretty notorious for the amount of runoff it receives, not to mention draining right toward Supai. Your video certainly gives an "up close and personal" view of this tragic event. I haven't been back since the early 80s, but it feels like yesterday after viewing this. Thanks for the post.

It’s really no laughing matter though. I would be running not walking. 🙂 Excellent video.

I’m in Arizona, been to Supai a dozen times or so. It’s a 8 minute flight from the top to the bottom. Locals won’t leave, in 2008 or 09 there was a massive storm with flash flooding in Supai. We has the Red Cross set up over on the Hualapai Reservation, we were told to expect 150+ … only two people showed both were out of state hikers. The residents won’t leave. This is very nicely documented.