A woman and her dog were swept away by flash flooding that suddenly surged through a Utah slot canyon. They were saved after the SOS emergency feature on her iPhone notified rescuers.::The woman heard flash flooding coming while in Utah’s Mary Jane Canyon and tried to reach higher ground with her dog, but the sand bank was away.

  • agent_flounder@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Same thing in Arizona and, I assume, New Mexico.

    Growing up in the former you get told a million times to beware of flash floods and don’t cross water running in an arroyo or dip or whatever because who knows how deep it is.