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ChrisInTempe
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I've seen a full size 4x4 swept down from a flash flood. All the glass was gone. The hood was peeled back, wrapped over the windshield and down towards the floor. Large areas of the body had the paint removed to bare metal, a rough natural sandblasting. The vehicle was buried in sand, located by the antenna on the roof sticking out of the sand. It was uncovered with a backhoe. Search teams never found the driver, not even the cadaver dogs that were walked up and down the wash for miles.
A 1970's Cadillac was taken down a wash by a flash flood. We found it compressed under a small bridge over a mile away. The debris forced the water over the bridge. The driver, an elderly woman, was found in the wreckage. The car had to be cut apart to remove the body.
The power of moving water will surprise the hell out of you. If it is fast enough even a few inches cannot be stood in or walked across. Add sand and the abrasive action and force is like flowing wet concrete.
I've gone to the scenes of flash floods were we had worked rescues to see what they looked like when the water fell. Seen the pits left by whirlpools, the undercutting of roadbeds. Bodies have been found under the roads in such pockets.
We thought it over, and found another river to pan. One of the guys noticed the water marks on the signs....