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Now imagine you are here when the flash flood hits: http://www.cartogramme.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Kasha-Katuwe-Tent-Rocks-National-Monument25.jpg http:/

Now imagine you are here when the flash flood hits: http://www.cartogramme.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Kasha-Katuwe-Tent-Rocks-National-Monument25.jpg http://www.cartogramme.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Kasha-... By the way, it is sunny overhead. The water is coming from a torrential downpour some miles away in the mountains. This is normal in New Mexico which experiences highly localized heavy downpours during July/August.

Gibbon1 6y ago
To point out the reason. In the northeast a small creek represents a small drainage area. In the Southwest a small dry creek can represent a large drainage. All the water dropped by a thunder storm will end up in it. I remember one time flying over the southwest with the light just right and you could see vast drainages with thin thin cracks that are the actual channels cut down into the sand stone.
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