Breaking news!!!! Grand Canyon
Posted:
Sun Aug 17, 2008 7:35 pmby avalen
Supai Village area of the Grand Canyon and camping areas got flooded from a
weakened dam and several hundred people have been evacuated by helicopter.
Thats all I know right now, its just happening at this moment.
I don't think any of our forum sisters are up there now but I still feel for the
campers that are there and might loose everything.
Re: Breaking news!!!! Grand Canyon
Posted:
Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:04 pmby avalen
heres the channel 5 news link
http://www.kpho.com/weather/17215356/detail.html100 campers are unaccounted for, 147 have been rescued
Re: Breaking news!!!! Grand Canyon
Posted:
Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:28 pmby mtngal
oh my gosh this is so scary! My heart is with the victims and also the relief crews, I know how hard they are working right now.
Re: Breaking news!!!! Grand Canyon
Posted:
Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:34 pmby Bethers
So scary.
I followed your link, Ava, then did a search for a newer story and it looks like as of this morning they were down to 11 missing - still too many and I hope they get found!
http://www.kpho.com/weather/17219128/detail.htmlMother Nature is good to us - and bad to us - and we never know which she's going to be from one day to the next -
Re: Breaking news!!!! Grand Canyon
Posted:
Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:25 pmby avalen
todays reports look good, they haven't talked about any one missing or otherwise.
They are applauding all the rescue action and showing some pictures from the
helicopter etc. From what I understand when the dam broke, (it was an earthen
dam) the water flooded like 8 feet deep in the campground. I am hopeful that
the rescue was 100% total success.