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Horrific Devastation! ‘Everything Is Gone’: Flash Floods Devastate Utah-Arizona Border Towns (Video)
Devastation! ‘Everything Is Gone’: Flash Floods Devastate Utah-Arizona Border Towns
15 Sep 15
A pair of storms dumped an estimated two and a half inches of rain in just two hours yesterday, flooding the small border towns of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah.
Utah Flash Flood Kills 12, Search on for 1 Missing: Officials
Authorities in Utah found four more bodies Tuesday in the aftermath of a flash flood described as a “wall of water” that swept away a van and an SUV near the Utah-Arizona state line Monday, bringing the death toll to 12.
Utah Emergency Management announced the discovery at around 2:25 p.m. local time (4:45 p.m. ET). One person is still missing.
“This hit with a vengeance we haven’t seen for some time,” said Kevin Barlow, the assistant fire chief in Hildale, Utah.
Barlow said that an SUV and a van carrying a total of 16 people had been swept away by the flooding on Monday evening. They were “hit by a large wall of water and debris,” Washington County Emergency Services said in a statement.
A member of the search and rescue team searches debris in a stream after a flash flood Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015, in Colorado City, Ariz. A wall of water swept away vehicles in the Utah-Arizona border town Monday, killing several people. Rick Bowmer / AP
The group was swept away as they returned from a park Monday at around 5 p.m. local time (7 p.m. ET) when they found a canyon road — the only route out of the area — flooded, Hildale Mayor Philip Barlow said Tuesday. They got out and were watching the flooding on the blocked road, he said.
“Unbeknownst to them, a flash flood had developed up in the canyon and it came rushing down, and it actually came around behind the vehicles and engulfed the vehicles,” the mayor said.
Three of the group were adults and the rest were children, ranging from 4 years old to teenagers, authorities said. Three children were rescued, officials said. One of those rescued spent the night in a hospital but was scheduled to be released Tuesday.
The group was made up of two families in separate vehicles, Philip Barlow said.
“My family and my friend’s family were swept away in this flash flood. We express our sincere gratitude for the kindness and assistance in this inexpressible time of sorrow,” Joseph Jessop said at an afternoon news conference. “Now in an instant, our families are gone,” he said.
“We know God is guiding in all things, and trust in him to heal our wounded hearts at this time.” Jessop said.
Earlier Tuesday, when nine bodies had been found, officials said three children and one adult remained missing; emergency management did not say whether the three found after that announcement included an adult or whether all were children.
Rain hampered search efforts Tuesday, Pulsipher said, but was ongoing Tuesday evening. “We’re not gonna give up until we absolutely have to,” he said.
Ted Barlow, who lives in Colorado City, described the storm as among the worst in decades.
The downpour lasted for about 20 to 30 minutes and brought rapid and intense flooding from nearby mountains.
“Everyone is family here, and it’s a tragedy however you look at it,” Barlow said.
Meanwhile, four people were found dead and three more were missing Tuesday after flash floods in a canyon in Zion National Park on Monday, the National Park Service said.
The group was canyoneering in Keyhole Canyon when storms dropped more than a half-inch of rain in an hour and Monday caused floods, the park service said. Zion National Park is about a 40-mile drive north of Hildale.
Hildale served as a home base for polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs.
Members of the sect, whose members believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven, are believed to be discouraged from watching TV, using the Internet or having much contact with the outside world.
Hildale resident Guy Timpson told NBC News that searchers were were trying to sort through “a mass of debris.”
“We’ve got quite an effort going on,” he said. “It’s been pretty amazing to see the community coming together to do what they can.”
More than 600 emergency responders and volunteers were involved in the search and recovery effort Tuesday, Washington County Sheriff Cory C. Pulsipher said. The governor authorized the National Guard to be mobilized to help, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox said.
More than four years after Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting underage girls he considered brides, the community is split between loyalists who still believe Jeffs is a victim of religious persecution and defectors who are embracing government efforts to pull the town into modern society.
The community is a patchwork of upscale, elegant residences surrounded by large walls and unfinished, dilapidated houses that remain just as they were in the early 2000s, when Jeffs ordered that all construction stop in Utah to focus on building his compound in Texas. SOURCE
NOTHING BUT A CHURCH TRAP!
ow yeah i seen this all over the news! HAHAHAHA you moron.
did it kill any illegals?
PAYBACK for Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857 a cold-blooded mass murder after deception to fellow pioneer travellers just going thru to California by way of Utah…inspired by your Great Leader. You all just turn your heads, that is why this happened to the descendants of such criminals.
Just keep on turning your heads, folks. More to come, this and more death and destruction. Til you get the point and regain a conscience.
Mormons think they are God’s gift to the universe. They are only one of Satan’s little packages for us.
I hope it drowned all the Mormons. They are all gay losers. They can take John Smith’s golden plates and put them in their butts. Then they will be in their rightful place.
Well, there IS A LOT OF SEXUAL ABUSE in the community, including of boys. Criminals
including the Amish devils.
PEOPLE YOU’RE HORRIBLE!! YOU may not care for their religion; but they’re still people and God loved them! You should be ashamed of yourselves cheering on their deaths! YOU are what’s wrong with this world! Not Apathy or empathy for anyone!! You should be praying for these people; NOT MOCKING THEM…
God created you to know him personally. Psalm 139:13-14 “You created every part of me and put me together in my mother’s womb.”
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son so that whosoever would believe in him would not perish but have everlasting life.”
Jesus Christ is God’s only solution for our Sin.. For the wages of sin is death. He died in our place
Romans 5:8 “But God showed hsi great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while were still yet sinners.”
He rose from the dead:
1 Corinthians 15: 3-6 “Christ died for our sins.. he was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day…He was seen by Peter and then by the twelve apostles.. After that he was seen by more than five hundred”
Through Jesus alone we can know God personally and experience God’s love.
HE IS THE ONLY WAY TO GOD…
John 4: 6 “Jesus said to them, ‘ I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
We must believe in and receive Christ.
John 1:12 “to all who received him, he gave the right to become children of God. All they had to do was to trust and believe in Jesus to be saved.”
We receive Christ by FAITH
God promised eternal life to all who receive Christ
1 John 5: 12-13 “Whoever has God’s Son has life; whoever does not have His Son, does not have life. I have written this to you who believe in the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.”
GOD BLESS YOU….
To be Totally Accurate,
What qualifies you, a self admitted ex-crack head promiscuous homo, to give anyone else advice about anything?
YOU texasssssproudofhisexperiencedass, are a complete SPAMMING nincompoop!
Wow…just….wow…
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One thing is obviously lacking in these SO-CALLED CHRISTIANS, and that’s compassion.
I’m truly sorry for those who lost everything but what gets me is why did they build in a Basin that was once a giant river system? Don’t people realize that nature has a way of taking back what belongs to her? Common sense tells the smart person never build in the sand or the bottom of mountain, cliff or volcano yet millions continue to do so. Human thinking makes my skin crawl sometimes on how stupid people really are.