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#008 - Field Skills: Flash Floods | Reading Water, Weather & Slot Canyons
Flash floods kill more people in the U.S. in an average year than lightning, tornadoes, or hurricanes — each one individually. This Field Skills episode is the survival companion to the Zion series, built for anyone heading into the Narrows or any slot canyon in the desert Southwest.
Host Shawn Spainhour, a former Army officer, breaks down why the desert turns rain into a killer: baked ground that absorbs nothing, watersheds that funnel runoff from fifty miles away, and slot canyons that send water up ten feet in seconds. You'll learn why the weather where you're standing is almost irrelevant…
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