Death Valley National Park is located in California. The Death Valley National Park was flooded on Friday, stranding hundreds of visitors and workers.
About 500 visitors and 500 park workers were stuck inside the park after 60 vehicles were buried in mud and debris.
The park near the California-Nevada state line received more than one inch of rain. About 75% of what the area gets in a year is recorded for the entire month of August.
The only day with more rain since 1936 was on April 15, 1988.
John Sirlin, a photographer for an Arizona-based adventure company who witnessed the flooding as he perched on a hillside boulder where he was trying to take pictures of lightning, said the trees were washing down.
He said in a phone interview that the noise from the rocks was incredible.
Requests for an update were not responded to by park officials.
The park 120 miles northeast of Las Vegas was flooded earlier this week. Mud and debris from flash floods in western Nevada and northern Arizona caused some roads to be closed on Monday.
Sirlin, who lives in Arizona, has been to the park since 2016 and said Friday's rain started at 2 a.m.
Sirlin said that the storm was more extreme than anything he had seen before.
There were a lot of washes. He said there are rocks on the road.
Sirlin said it took him about six hours to drive out of the park.
He said that there were at least two dozen cars that were smashed and stuck in there.
The dumpster containers were pushed into parked cars by the flood waters. Hotel rooms and business offices are among the facilities that are flooded.
The water system for park residents and offices failed after a line broke while the repairs were being made.
The National Weather Service continued to issue a flood advisory into the evening after a flash flood warning for the park expired.
That's right.
The National Park Service now says that 1.7 inches of rain fell, not the previously stated 1.46 inches.
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