Watch A Flash Flood Roar Into Traffic On An Arizona Interstate Today

In a still from ABC 15 in Phoenix, flash flood water
cascades into traffic on Interstate 17 north of Phoenix.  

Incredible flash floods are hitting Arizona today, another salvo in what I'm calling the Year of the Flash Flood

Arizona has flash floods during the late summer rainy season every year, and this year the state has had more than usual.

But today's flooding is way beyond what they normally experience. I'm sure some rainfall records were set in parts of the state.  

The United States as a whole has not been particularly wet this summer, but it seems almost every single day, there's an extreme rain storm, and big time flash flooding.

Other flood alerts and warnings have been issued today for parts of Nevada, Utah and Michigan.

But it was Arizona that really got it.

Today, up to eight inches of rain has fallen in some towns in Arizona. There have been dramatic helicopter rescues from homes and cars caught in the sudden, unprecedented flooding.

News helicopters showed one couple being rescued from a house in the middle of a raging torrent. It looked like the house was THIS CLOSE to washing away.

Arguably the most spectacular incident in the Arizona flooding so far today looked like something out of  a cheesy Hollywood disaster movie.

The storms are still ongoing in Arizona, so more destructive floods will continue into this evening, I'm sure.

In the video below from ABC 15 in Phoenix, we have a rush of water hitting traffic on Interstate 17 north of Phoenix. The quality of the video isn't the best, but it is still out of this world amazing. Fast forward to just after the one minute mark to see:




Here's what it looked like from inside one of the cars on Interstate 17. The dark storm clouds in the background probably made people think, with good reason, it was going to get a lot worse.

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