Welcome to Arizona from one who was born and raised here. Always amazing to me to see how many people get stuck in washes after they ignore the "Do not enter when flooded" signs right before the wash...

@flagmichael

3 жыл бұрын

Worth mentioning: Arizona has a "stupid motorist" law ARS 28-910 www.azleg.gov/ars/28/00910.htm Basically, a motorist who drives around barricades or other road closure markings and has to be rescued from water can be (and usually is) charge for the cost of their rescue.

@ThinkerOnTheBus

2 жыл бұрын

@@flagmichael That is if they are fortunate enough to be rescued. Some drivers are completely ignorant of how little water is required to sweep one's vehicle away. Then some of those drivers will inevitably learn the hard way by unsuccessfully attempting cross a section of road that has a wash flowing over it. Hopefully, they will have the chance to use this new found knowledge in the future for their own benefit. Yet, some will never have such an opportunity . . . and then some who get washed away while inside of their vehicles will never have their bodies recovered. Their vehicle will be found without any trace of their bodies.

i lived down by florence. we got flooded often.so i took a border disc and built a 2ft.burm around my 3 acres.no more floods.

I'm a surface-water hydrologist by profession. That was very interesting. I'm a little surprised that there wasn't some grading away from the house. I would expect that the house would be slightly elevated from the surrounding grade to promote drainage away from and around the house. I've seen a couple of debris flows and they are nothing to scoff at. That was some substantial flow down the road so I'm not surprised that boulders were moved. A lot of folks don't think it rains in the desert. It doesn't very often, but when the storms come... they really come. Glad you're alright.

@starseeker2088

2 жыл бұрын

Your right wth you never build without a moot and elevated pad wait for the big one. newbie their only hope a cement fence

@PurePondering

2 жыл бұрын

@@starseeker2088 desert permaculture swales and berms help a lot, but most folks don't know about them.

@mollywebb2437

2 жыл бұрын

@@PurePondering Yes, permaculture really works. See documentary “Regreening the Desert” with John D Liu. It takes some time, but it’s well worth the effort.

@PurePondering

2 жыл бұрын

@@mollywebb2437 so much information out there on desert permaculture. I'm slowly working on our little piece of the desert, but we're not out as far as the folks in this video. It takes time.

@danburch9989

2 жыл бұрын

That is my first thought. There are a lot of homes in this area where the slabs are not elevated. It takes only one rain event like this to cause expensive damage. But I guess builders have talked to code people out of that requirement to save money for the onwer and increase profits to the builder. Like they did when aluminum wiring was the "way to go". I'll bet plastic PEX piping will rear its ugly head in 25 years as I read the disadvantages of PEX.

As a home builder for 22 years, minimum of 18 inches above grade.

I was driving north about 5 miles north of Kingman on 93 when it hit my wife and I. We had to pull off the road and wait it out. Hell of a storm.

I remember heavy rains and flooding when I lived in Arizona. I know what you went through.

That house’s foundation is a code violation here. If you have any area of raised elevation without drainage between you have to build on a (8-12”) elevated foundation. That style is called ‘on-slab’ and is only allowed if all terrain a significant distance is lower; it almost never done anymore because of insurance and the obvious… 73 Kevin best to you and your friends. BTW: we have ravines that are 15+ feet deep from our monsoons in Colorado!

We had somewhat the same thing but ours lasted 4 days with a total of 21.5” rain. The entire town of Rockport, Texas had flooded roads. Our blessing was we took the rain load just fine at our location. Thankfully we had just gone grocery shopping a day before the storm hit us. We had a house get hit by lightning one block over from us. My “tower and antenna survived just fine. Your damages, Kevin were greater as far as the land erosion. Many of our local homes and businesses did get about a foot or more of water inside. Thankfully you all were safe.

@loughkb

3 жыл бұрын

I've been wondering about flooding down there. You're all going to start looking like Davey Jones' crew in Pirates of the Caribbean. I don't know what they're going to do about the road here. As it is, it's too steep for me to get the RV off the property. I won't start panicing until we get to September.

Wow! Yeah, the power of water is incredible. Glad you and your friends didn't have more issues than you did!

Do not underestimate the value of good neighbors.

Mother Nature telling you where not to build a road. This a good lesson in design. Glad the antennas lived through it. People that don’t live in the southwest usually don’t comprehend.

Wow! Used to do a lot of work near Tonopah, but stayed in a hotel in Goodyear. One coworker elected to stay in the desert in his camper and we went out to pick him up. Down a road like that. In a rental Taurus. Made it.

Wow, didn't realise the road would be so torn down like that so quickly! Hope you get through OK with the R.V.

Lived off of Anteres Rd for a while, by the fire stations...collect some of the black sand...looks like the old neighborhood, I miss it....lol thx

Lesson learned... When building a house in flat land make sure is at least 2 foot above typical grade.

@denverdubois5835

3 жыл бұрын

I don't understand why people build flat/ground level homes on flat land right next to a wash...at or below the grade of the wash. Strange. Flash floods in the desert are scary. I was at a friend's house in Mesa during a huge storm some years ago. The lightning and thunder were amazing (and close). The rain was the most intense I've ever experienced outside of Florida. Their yard was well graded, though, with water directed away from the home and the home itself set up from the street. So we did not have a kitchen flood that night, lol.

@darrenrich3492

3 жыл бұрын

No- at least 3-4 feet.

I am super GLAD you are O.K. along with your friends there in Kingman A.Z. Yes water is a good excavator when flowing swiftly!! Glad your RV only saw water up to the bottom of the rims!!!

I live in Kingman, that day was sunny then darkness enveloped the area. Lightning & thunder followed by heavy rain. Thank goodness our house is high enough & the water just flowed down the street taking most of the dirt from backwards.

Great video. KL3TQ here in Kingman. We are up Stockton Hill Road about 14 miles. It was a fun one, I took a few pictures before it hit us.

Oh dear. Good luck with the clean-up. One nice thing about where we live (NS CAN) is that it's more-or-less solid bedrock, so even the heaviest rain merely disturbs some gravel on the driveway and ruts the gravel road (just a bit, like an inch or two). 73

Glad you're ok. Thanks for sharing this.

Hi Kevin, Never thought that much of the road would get washed away. Thanks to the good neighbor making a ramp to exit the property. Stay safe. 73 WJ3U

Always build the house foundation higher than the yard in desert areas just for that reason.

Glad to see you are okay. Got worried when there were no video's for a while. Saw that kind of storm during Hurricane Harvey Had at least 6 hours of rain like you saw, and we had 52" of rain in 3 days. Yeah, many homes were full of water. Hope you can get the road fixed well enough to get out and get some groceries soon.

@loughkb

3 жыл бұрын

I've been working on two antenna experiments for awhile, waiting on parts for one and I was just starting to edit the other when the storm came up.

Kevin, we sent the rain and monsoon your way from Palm Desert and this was the wettest day that we ever had as recorded in history our here in the California desert. Luckily, we had no damage. Glad you're OK. 73's de WD6FIE

Very interesting and pleased to hear your friends and neighbors are well. Just about to share this video with a friend.

I live in that area and saw that huge monsoon come in. The thing was massive and I've never seen one quite like that. You knew it was bad by the amount of dust it roiled up. Within minutes along came the torrential downpour and didn't go away too soon. At my house we get rain on occasion but never lasts very long.

Glad to see you guys were ok. Most have been intense

A friend lives out on N. Stockton Hill passed Northern and lost his driveway in the flooding..... Great footage Kevin. KE6KJD

I sat one of those out on the I 5 to the West of Blyth once, it was amazing. And I grew up in the PNW and have rode out hurricanes on the Gulf of Mexico, but the desert storms are intense!

@loughkb

3 жыл бұрын

I saw that vid. Groceries and a shower. What will they think of next?

Flashfloods can be really scary. I went to Arizona a couple weeks ago for work and it was very impressive and beautiful. I wish I could have stayed longer....

Glad you and your friends are OK.

We have heavy rains just like that one, here in West Central Florida with one big difference, the county maintains a deep ditch (over 6 feet deep) on both sides of every road with culverts under every driveway and all cross streets. (property owners are responsible for the initial installations) Rain storms here are common (in season) and for the most part uneventful. Ron W4BIN

Definitely found it interesting, I live off Castle Rock. We were driving home when the dust storm hit. We lost power 2 or 3 times. Damage sux but the storm looked AWESOME!!

@PurePondering

2 жыл бұрын

We didn't get much of it just south of Butler. I keep watching the monsoons go around us. :-/

We have much the same problem at our property east of Yuma. We have a decent slope on our property and have had to channel the water to each side.

Kevin, I love your KZread Channel. Keep experimenting with antennas and software. Good luck from Missouri. Walt, KC0ELC

Great photography and narration. I moved to Bullhead City last year and saw very little monsoon activity, but this year is different...more so far. I watched the radar and saw that storm...wondered what it was like under or near it. Now I know....I need to get some sandbags ready. Thanks👍😯😳

When I lived in Yuma I remember getting 8 inches of rain in one day....you should have seen the rainbow....it is the only time I ever went looking for the pot of gold....

Massive dust storm and rain 🌧️ keep safe 🌧️ hello from down under Australia 🦘🍻🦘🍻

I drove through kingman on Sunday coming back from williams to havasu, I didn’t think we were going to get much along the way. We got hammered in Williams all weekend with 2” of rain flowing through camp for hours on end! 73’s to ya KJ7VXK

@milt6208

3 жыл бұрын

I was in Seligman Sunday and drove through all of that including the microburst. I also moved to Havasu in 65 before the bridge.

@desertd2609

3 жыл бұрын

I got to havasu in 84 the first time then made it my permanent residence in 91, seen some crazy storms here! I had my pontoon boat get blown away and turned around a couple of seasons ago! 73’s to ya......KJ7VXK

@milt6208

3 жыл бұрын

@@desertd2609 Ask old timers about 68. That was the biggest storm while I was there. Winds were clocked at over a hundred miles an hour both at the airport on the peninsula (now island) and up the hill. Many homes were destroyed. It was quite a storm all over Arizona.

@desertd2609

3 жыл бұрын

@@milt6208 I haven’t heard of that one but I will keep it in my mind and ask some of my pioneer customer base! We had a nasty one a few years back that took out 38 power poles and it also took my pontoon boat for a ride.

@milt6208

3 жыл бұрын

@@desertd2609 the reason why there wasn't much damage in 1968 was because there was nothing much there back then. Go to a book store and get "Living at the end of Old 95" by Rick Kingsbury. That is the story of my time there. Back when Havasu was cool before the bridge.

Good top hear it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Amazing how fast the climate is changing - we in Australia have also had our share of storms, floods and bush fires. Plays hell with the farmers' top soil.

Water wins always.

Why is the house built so low to the ground? I would think the foundation walls should be at least a foot high. That’s how it is here in the NE.

@loughkb

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, most of the houses around here are built on a sort of mound to raise them up. Bad contractor, I'd guess. None of my business though, so I'm keeping my nose out of it.

Lessons learned! Good vlog account... no drama, just facts. Good that the road does a dual purpose job - transport and drainage! Just don't park on the road or drive it in a flash flood...

Been there, done that. Thanks for the reminder! ;)

Glad your ok Kevin take care

Glad everyone survived

Outstanding video.

No joke especially when you build a house in the creek bed!

Big Bend, Texas too.....Don't camp in a creek bed!

I was in kingman as that storm came through

Glad you are okay!

Glad you and your friends are alright. Did water get into your RV exhaust?

@loughkb

3 жыл бұрын

You couldn't tell from the angle on the photo, but no. Stayed a few inches below it.

Daaaam!!!! I live in golden valley and didn't see it !!! Just light rain steadily

I lived in Kingman for 16 years. I was north of town just south of Red lake, I'm assuming that you're new to the area get ready I hate to tell you this but this common for the area. You actually got off easy, get some drainage cut away from the house soon. The road is only going to get worse I'm speaking from experience.

I remember back in the eighties here in Kingman the monsoons consisted of two weeks straight of solid downpours after a couple days the toads would. Emerge from the ground. I must say n I'm not sure why they don't hit like that here anymore.

@genehasenbuhler2594

3 жыл бұрын

Oh they will- it is cyclical!

Hi Kevin, Oh man, I was more than a little concerned when I saw your electric cable being surrounded... and his a/c condenser too. Glad you made it through ok. Myself, I am a decades long veteran of Arizona flash floods, and you are correct, they are no joke! That is why Arizona has our "stupid motorist law"; and it still boggles my mind of how many idiots still drive off into flooded washes, rivers, underpasses, or low spots in the road. One thing's for sure... you ain't going anywhere on that "road" for at least 2 weeks until the Sun has a chance to bake it solid once again... otherwise, you'll bury that thing to the frame in mud!!! As for the wind... I am quite impressed that your antenna & mast stayed together without damage. 73 - John

@loughkb

3 жыл бұрын

That circuit was on a GFI breaker. We would have killed the main, but we needed the shop vac to run in the house. I just reset that breaker after the water had receded.

Is there anywhere in kingman where a home won't be flooded?

I'm there in march and Oct. I never get to see this. Been crazy this year.

What road was that? Trying to figure out how far away it was from our old place down there

@loughkb

3 жыл бұрын

It's up Stockton Hill Road, down Bull Mountain road.

Looking for positives. Has the wet conditions affected 5he signals? Better earths etc You can fight a lot of things but not nature

Oh my goodness that looks horrible hope all is ok with everyone 🙏

What city are you in? Meadview? Dolan Springs? You said northe of Kingman

@loughkb

3 жыл бұрын

Just a few miles outside of Kingman.

As a New Englander I found this amazing and fascinating. I will take a good old blizzard anyday over flash flooding

@tobadoba18

2 жыл бұрын

Thing is that you can avoid the flash flooding and some of this damage is preventable if you don't build in known flash flood areas and/or grade the land appropriately so it won't flood. You cannot however, do any of that in a blizzard. You are pretty much stuck and one can only hope that if a blizzard is a possibility where you live that you have added in some extra precautions such as ways to keep warm, candles, canned goods, etc. Hope I am making sense. P.S. Native Arizonan here so I would literally die in a blizzard, lol. I'd keep the monsoons anyday because as much havoc that they can bring, they are fascinating to experience.

Lucky that the road was below the house grade to keep the water flow away as much as it did, otherwise they would be looking at alot more damage.

Meanwhile, back in Rockport, Texas there's video of guy kayaking down the other end of our street after a 15-inch round of torrential rain earlier this month.

@loughkb

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. I've been chatting with Al about the rain you guys have had. Amazing amounts.

@thomasstandley6309

3 жыл бұрын

@@loughkb Watching it all on security cameras from NW Lower Michigan. Going back shortly to address the jungle now in my backyard. Looks like monsoon season continues for you ... stay dry.

It's appropriately called a Haboob... They can be very impressive, but also very dangerous and destructive... Glad everything is ok,. Have you thought about putting pontoon outriggers on your RV? Inflatable ones with pull out beams and vertical supports?... That would be an awesome project, but unrelated to most of your channel...

Can't believe that new house was built at grade. Really?😬

What landmark is that?

@loughkb

3 жыл бұрын

You'll need to be more specific. I don't know what you're referring to.

What mast is that?

@loughkb

3 жыл бұрын

Max Gain Systems. I have a video on it. Just search my channel for MGS or mast to find it. I love it.

Wow...that was a doosey. And there may be more??

@loughkb

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. The season goes into August. I'm moving the RV over to higher ground near the barn. I'm not leaving until mid September. Hopefully the road is fixed by then. Kind of trapped here now.

The flash floods are also ruthless killers. In some cases the victims were in vehicles that tried to cross rushing water on roads. In other cases they had no visual warning when the flood waters appeared. (Was WA6TDG 50 years ago.)

Sand storm first than came the rains strange quite a weather event

W O W! Confirmed / Learned something new today! Nature is a Force to reckon with... However, the planning...

Xtreme weather 😩

@flexairz

3 жыл бұрын

No just weather. It happens.

beautiful terrain! OMG! it is amazing to see what an occasional storm does to the turf! just think about the human element removed from it all and see what nature will do! Beautiful! I hope all is well. Of course, I mean no ill-will to anyone. Just observing

I made sure I stayed home. My church service was even cancelled

It must be all the RF from us hams .hihi. Quick..jump in the warsh..monthly free bath .hihi These quick cool offs for a day Kevin. Just be aware of mother natures rath. Fishing time . 73 Hoosier Thank you again..facebook family will see this.

I was in a "100-year" storm with associated flooding. What made it far wose were the people that just had to plow through the water so waves would enter homes. Then, there's the people (from out of town) that just have to stop and take picures of our misery.

Sorry for the damages but you can prevent this from happening.

At least with that wet ground you might get a better propagation

I remember being in that dust storm heh

Shelf cloud. Not wall cloud.

Nature in the raw is seldom mild.

Time to make a moat, nature did some work

Seems as though your road was a natural water way😬

It was scary

hi

Sorry..hope you all can do something about..so next time the water will not go there..

Monsoons are super dangerous!

A way to fix the house being too low is to build a masonry wall around it with so it can keep a flood out. Or just do nothing and ask for a biscuit........ you decided to risk it.

@loughkb

2 жыл бұрын

It's not my house. I didn't decide anything.

Yo!

Once you get everything cleaned up; you should get out your metal detectors!

@loughkb

3 жыл бұрын

I'm thinking about that too.

Time to put a 3 foot WAP all the way around the house! And move diet and rocks to divert water away from the house area! Concrete canals if needed! Unless , flooded houses- is yo thing!

Yes, interesting video. However, you seem to have a generous definition of “yard”.

@loughkb

3 жыл бұрын

Well, according to the dictionary, in the North American usage, "yard" is defined as, "a piece of ground adjoining a building or house.". So, technically, spot on. :-)

Ummm.... quit 'telegraphing' what other uninformed "chief meteorologist" are saying. Heavy rain, deluge, torrential,....NOT MONSOON. Look up the definition of a monsoon..... (smh)

@loughkb

2 жыл бұрын

sgsup.asu.edu/basics-arizona-monsoon-desert-meteorology

if u tried to drive on street during flood u could get WAY more views. 😄

@kurtzFPV

3 жыл бұрын

Or send up the drone lol. Edit: spoke too soon.

HA GUYS ITS A HABOOB HA

@loughkb

2 жыл бұрын

Incorrect. an Haboob is just a violent wind storm carrying lots of dust. This is a massive thunderstorm cell that just happens to be kicking up some dust ahead of it.

And as the world warms up further from our greenhouse gas emissions, extreme weather will become more extreme, and more frequent.

Yo!

@loughkb

3 жыл бұрын

Yo.