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Chad myers. how could this happen with no warning? it happens every single day in the desert in the summer. it s called monsoon season flash flooding. it is the most dangerous, most tragic thing that happens in the desert. you think it isn t going to rain. it rains on top of a hill. that water washing downhill. it s not even raining where you are. it rained up there. you don t expect it to come downhill. and it does. the rain came through payson, all the way down through tucson who had their first wet day in almost half a year. in fact, 138 days ago was the last time it truly rained in phoenix. the rain was on top of the mountain. it rained hard. probably an inch of rain. something else on top of this mountain, about a month ago, a wildfire. a wildfire scorched the ground that this water, this rain was raining on. that wildfire makes the ground what we call hydrophobic. it makes it like asphalt. the rain will not soak in. even the rain that we re going ....
Parts of idaho s pristine mountain areas are engulfed in flames this hour where two raging wildfires have taken over 100,000 acres already. let s bring in chad myers. you know, you have to watch what you ask for when we want help from mother nature across these wildfire areas. if you get too much rainfall too quickly over the burn areas, one right there, one right there, you could actually get the land to start to slide. it s because when a fire burns a forest, the dirt on the bottom of the ground here about a couple inches down becomes what we call hydrophobic. almost turns to concrete. the first couple inches that doesn t turn hydrophobic could slide off there and that s what we call debris flows or into the mudslides here. we don t have that right now, but sometimes when you get rain, you get lightning. look at all the strikes across ....