A Collection of the Flooding of Havasupai in 2008

A place to find links to various media about the Havasupai flood of 2008.

August 19, 2008
For Immediate Release

HAVASUPAI TRIBE SEEKS FLOOD DISASTER RELIEF

The Havasupai Tribe of Arizona seeks aid for the flooding emergency on its Reservation located in the Grand Canyon. The flooding began Sunday when a dam breached near the Grand Canyon destroying homes, and forcing members to evacuate by helicopter. Many tribal members have been relocated to a Red Cross shelter in a gymnasium at Peach Springs, about 60 miles southwest of Supai village. The Tribe is accepting donations, including bottled water, canned goods, personal hygiene items, diapers and baby formula, dog food, and horse feed.

Contact:
Charlene Jackson (480) 241-8795

Courtesy of Victor Rocha

Above taken from http://216.109.157.86/press_release/Havasupai%20Tribe%20Seeks%20Flood%20Disaster%20Relief%2008182008.htm

Stories of the night of the flood

Updates:

My theory on the 2008 Destruction

Jon Opem's facebook page with Havasu pictures

The Arizona Geologists blog

New York Times on new waterfalls formed. May 30

If you find any article or blog on the web that I haven't posted, please email me with details at kaggie at gmail dot com.

Tripadvisor.com info about the reservation.

There is a photobook in the process of being published called Havasupai Guardians by Karene Le Drian that will include some pictures from the flooding.

Video posted June 10, 2009:

Videos and Pictures

AJ Stecker's Smugmug pictures: aj.havasupaiflood.com

The Oklahoma City Channel 5 Photo blog has some amazing pictures taken by Merlin Manakaja. Has pictures of the dam that broke. koco.havasupaiflood.com

The Picasa photo gallery of the flood. Excellent pictures here. pics.havasupaiflood.com
(Requires a google account to log in.)

Andy's smugmug collection of a lot of the floods and damage. andy.havasupaiflood.com

Lisa Luther's picasa webpage at lisa.havasupaiflood.com

Pictures before the flood: before.havasupaiflood.com

Here's the youtube videos that I have found so far.

youtube.havasupaiflood.com

Personal stories - Blogs and stories

All links I provide simply redirect the page to an actual page, so you don't have to remember long addresses. As a personal favor, so this comes up quicker in search engines, it would be nice if you linked here too. (I'm sure there's a lot more stories and people who want to hear them.)

Here are some excellent pictures and story on flickr by Nathan Cowlishaw. He survived an oncoming flood through use of a rope bridge.nathan.havasupaiflood.com
His blog here.

The Miller's put up a blog at http://millers3inaz.blogspot.com/.

Mario put up a blog that can be found at: mariomanifesto.blogspot.com

Here's a story and video from KSL News, featuring Brian Codde. ksl.havasupaiflood.com

Eljean Hanna's, a tribal villager, remarks.

Here's Tyler D'Hulst's blog of what had happened. tyler.havasupaiflood.com

Here's the blog entry from Tawnya Gray. tawnya.havasupaiflood.com

The blog of a Coconino county Sheriff's Search & Rescue Team, Deb Lauman.deb.havasupaiflood.com

Here's Josh Kaggie's account of the situation: kaggie.havasupaiflood.com

News from Arizona Central about AJ Stecker's trip here.

Salt Lake Tribune on some hikers, featuring Hinsley, Cunningham, and Rex Griffin available here.

Here's a link to The Early Show feature on Friday about scouts from New Jersey featuring Kevin Meunch.
Some more on the scout troop, but a lot more details then other places.

Story on Larry Bowman, who was on a 16-day raft trip here.

Other information

Some information regarding the 1993 flood, from what I've been able to find: 93.havasupaiflood.com

"In 1910, a flash flood rampaged through Supai and filled the canyon wall to wall with 20 feet of water. The village rebuilt downstream at its present location in a wider section of the canyon." (source)

How Mooney Falls got its name.

Legends of Havasupai

"In August 1997, several hundred locals and visitors were evacuated by helicopter from the village of Supai."

General News Articles

Story by Chris Kahn of the Associated Press, featuring Ferdinand Rivera.

Associated Press writer, Felicia Fonseca. In her story it says, "Last weekend's flooding wasn'ta s severe as previous floods, Melis said, but the isolation of the canyon will make it difficult to rebuild."

Just a blog of someone with family there. Short.

Another blog but quotes Billy Jack saying, "The whole area's unstable, especially toward the falls. The tourist dollars are really critical."

Peach Springs Arizona site maintained by Pete Kosednar

"New Interest in Warning System After Grand Canyon Flood" New York Times

Article on an"improved alert system that could help tourists and residents."

Other

Question: Does anyone know where and when the dams broke and what path they would follow to get to the canyon? Was it one dam or two? Answer: The Redlands Dam breach was between 6 and 6:30 AM, Sunday. In that time, the "lake" (a 4.5 acre pond) dropped 5 feet. By the time that water went 45 miles down Cataract Canyon and reached Havasu Creek it would not have been much more than a one foot wave if that. (source) Compare to this.

Also, if you were there and would like to send me your own story or pictures to post here, I would gladly do it (and change the formatting of this a bit too). (Or if you have a blog and want me to copy some parts and link it here.) If there's anything that I should change, then just let me know. kaggie at gmail dot com

Mooney Falls, Nathan Cowlishaw

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