I'm happy that I saw "the other side" of the culvert, too. Even more spectacular from the other end of the culvert. I wouldn't want to be caught in this flood while in the creek bed.
It had stormed a bit where we were that afternoon and we were driving back down and encountered an area with at least 18" of hail, could've even been 24". It was most likely a microburst. The whole meadow area was flooded out. We were driving down the road that follows this creek bed, looking at how flooded everything was, then noticed up ahead that the creek bed was dry. We quickly realized it was a flash flood, and drove ahead of it to a spot where the creek crossed the road, waited for it, then drove up to the next crossing, waited again, etc. I have a few videos of it on this RU-vid channel.
How could this be on the same day? The other video showed the gully with tall dry grass being mowed down by the flood debris. This video the grass is gone and the gully is dry.
Interesting how the other side is completely full where it is flowing out, but the side where it is flowing in is only halfway full. I guess all of the sticks make the water back up some in between.
as a kid, there were 4 culverts within a few hundred meters.. whenever it rained... not anything like this. nice clean(ish) water, and about 1/3rd full. rapid but not crazy. grab an old cars inner tube, take it for rides under the road :) you havent lived until youve ridden an inflatable device in a stormwater drain. yeah, um... leave this one... i rate it unsuitable.
Now I'm kinda wondering why they didn't just make a ten foot wide by 3 foot high culvert that was concreted either side. On a side note, after that flood, the creek will be nice and clean.
Money. Huge cost difference between a 72" corrugated pipe and a concrete box culvert. The box is what should be there, but the cost is the reason they went with the pipe.
@@mikekole I'm not trying to shoot the messenger here but corrugated pipe is a short term solution to a long term problem. Do it once and do it right. For the $10,000 they saved, they will need to spend 3 times that to fix it when it fails.
They didn't save $10,000 though. They saved at least $500,000- which is why they went to the thing that works sometimes and fails sometimes. It's probably governed by their county, the county doesn't have that kind of money, and, well, the corrugated goes in.
