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When it rains in Mohave County, flood control channels, rivers, and washes quickly fill up with fast moving water, and this can create a potentially life-threatening danger to anyone who gets caught or swept away.

 

                                

 

A foot or two of water can cost you your life!  Nearly half of all flash flood fatalities are automobile related.  Two feet of water will carry away most automobiles.  Also avoid walking through floodwaters, even six inches of water can sweep you off your feet.

A flash flood is a torrent of water rushing through normally dry or low-flow creeks, streams, washes, ravines, culverts, or over lower lying ground. In desert areas, a raging torrent of water may move off the mountains for miles into relatively flat terrain. The violent rushing of water collects debris and mud as it moves and becomes destructive to everything in its path.