HikeArizona.COM

Insane river data right now, and this is only the beginning?

Verde below Tangle Creek, 29,500
Tonto Creek above Gun Creek, 32,000
Agua Fria River, 21,000
Cherry Creek, 6,000
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/az/nwis/current/?type=flow

azpride wrote:LITTLE COLORADO RIVER NEAR CAMERON, 3.1.

Boo.

Are you gonna go get us some awesome pictures??!!

It's raining?

But on a serious note, Verde river below tangle creek reading 95,000 cfs at 11.30 tonight. Yikes. Tonto Creek reading 61,000 at gun creek

My backyard has a small pond right now, with the storage shed in the middle of it. Rained pretty much all night here. Prior to that we didn't get much out of these systems. Snow level supposed to get down to 3500 feet tonite. Can't wait---

16 hikers rescued after Tucson canyon floods

Jan. 22, 2010 12:58 AM
Associated Press

TUCSON - Authorities in Tucson say 16 people have been rescued after being stranded along a trail in the Sabino Canyon Recreation Area by floodwaters caused by heavy rain and snow in the Catalina Mountains.

The stranded visitors were walking and hiking along the Bear Canyon Trail that leads to Seven Falls on Thursday afternoon. The water in the wash they'd previously passed became too high to cross back over.

Pima County Sheriff's Department officials say the group was guided off the trail by using an alternate route.

Authorities say such flooding is common following heavy rain in the Catalina Mountain

SuperstitionGuy wrote:Authorities say such flooding is common following heavy rain in the Catalina Mountain

Gee, ya think? (Hope it wasn't a SAHC group. Then I'll be embarrassed.)

Salt River near Roosevelt, 89,300. And the upper Salt at over 30,000. (10,000 is big water there. 30,000 is wash-out-the-bridge water. I wonder if US 60 is closed there. I talked to someone last night at about 10:30 p.m. who said he had just come through there and there were a lot of landslides.

Looks like the Rillito finally came up, too.

US 60 is closed between Globe and Show Low, so yes. Actually, it seems like just about every road north or east of the valley is closed.

Got 1.2" on my rain gauge last night, which puts it at about 1.7" in central Tucson in the last 48 hrs. Rillito looks awesome, Canada del Oro looks a little scary - but I think that any real flooding here will have to wait until all that SNOW melts! Lots of it, from what I can see here at work on the north west side.

I'm happy to be home this weekend. I mean, i love the rain and all, but being trapped behind a raging creek isn't much fun. What happened up in Sabino happens in almost every major rain event. People don't realize as they hike uphill that all the water falling from the sky on them and above them is going to be filling that creek they just crossed... Used to be how nature thinned the herd.

The dam is deflated, with 28,000cfs right now, AZCentral says it will go up to 40,000cfs later today.

I just posted some photos of Town Lake. I think they're gonna empty it and look for dead bodies before letting the runoff in the next few days fill it up again!
http://www.hikearizona.com/photoset.php?ID=9886

Not nearly as cool as the photos of the Agua Fria posted by toddak
http://www.hikearizona.com/photoset.php?ID=9882

All the SRP dams are releasing water per the data online. The Salt River is flowing good, careful of that east crossing at Gilbert Rd

I wonder what havasu creek is doing?

Is anyone hitting any of this in their kayaks! Reminds me of wild times out west on the American River above Coloma at 47,000cfs... 15' tall standing waves and monster holes, with whole trees thrown in for extra moving obstacle practice...

Is Cottonwood being effected by this? Have a friend there and no email responses for the last day or so...

I've heard nothing about Oak Creek or the Verde flooding Cottonwood.

The power is out in Greer, and other areas around here. We have a lot of snow on the ground and more on the way tonight. I skied about 5 miles up Water Canyon road today so I could ski back down!

With all of the rain we received, I'm curious where those of you who have been in the Supes in the last few days have seen some really nice water running? Where do you recommend?

They've got water. Fish Creek's got a bit much in my opinion and Tortilla Creek is also obviously running really high. Peter's Canyon has impressive flow, First Water Creek was perfect last weekend. Even Lewis and Pranty creek near Fish Creek had good flow this past weekend. Siphon Draw was decent the weekend right after the rain, not sure about now. My guess is by now Massacre Falls is a bit weak, but I couldn't tell you for sure. Recent triplogs suggest Boulder Canyon and LaBarge Creek are running really well.

Personally, I'm wondering about east boulder near Pinyon Camp and Needle Canyon along the Terrapin. How long does water stay in those canyons after rain?

In response to SuperstitionGuy:
They walked them out the trail down to Bear Canyon Road, which is where the Pima Co parks trailhead is.. I guess my nice, quiet, easy to park, trailhead is now less of a secret

azpride wrote:Personally, I'm wondering about east boulder near Pinyon Camp and Needle Canyon along the Terrapin. How long does water stay in those canyons after rain?

There was quite a bit of water running through Needle Canyon last weekend. This was taken near the the north end of Needle Canyon. - http://www.hikearizona.com/phoZOOM.php?ZIP=120196
I'm not sure how long the water stays in the area.