Friday, August 12, 2005

Flash Floods

Memories come "flooding" back to me this time of year (scroll down two posts to an excerpt from my memoirs. My family survived a deadly flash flood in 1961 in which many people perished).

You've probably heard that a flash flood occurs within mere seconds, turning a creek into a raging muddy river, and thought it was an exaggeration.

Here's an amazing real-time video clip. Keep one eye on the timer as you watch and see what happens within one, and then two minutes. Wild stuff.

http://stormscenes.com/reels/wvf-080605a.wmv

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