понедельник, 2 сентября 2013 г.

It was a really strong storm dumping quite a bit of rain and it caused flash flooding, Stumpf said.


DOLAN SPRINGS, Ariz. Flash flood waters swept a tour bus with 33 people aboard hundreds of yards down a wash in northwestern Arizona and the vehicle flipped on its side, but no one was injured, officials said.
The high waters pushed the vehicle down the wash for an estimated 300 yards around 1:50 p.m. near Kingman, said Patrick Moore, chief of the Northern Arizona Consolidated Fire District, which had firefighters at the scene. The crash happened as northern Arizona was hit with a second day of heavy rain.
The area where the bus accident occurred received 0.75 inches of rain in about an hour on Sunday afternoon, said Chris Stumpf, a National Weather Service forecaster in Las Vegas. A flash flood warning was in effect when the accident occurred, he said.
It was a really strong storm dumping quite a bit of rain and it caused flash flooding, Stumpf said. They were driving on a portion of the road where they shouldn t have tried to drive across. They should not have been driving through there.
Rhonda Ho, operations manager for Canyon Coach Lines, said the bus owned by the Las Vegas-based company was being driven by Joseph Razon, who saw a car right in front of him go through a section of the highway covered by some water.
She said the driver managed to bring the bus against an embankment so it would stop and passengers could escape. People inside hotels in san antonio texas the bus were able to climb out of the driver s side windows and walked to dry land.
On Sunday evening, as a tow truck was preparing to take away the bus, it was lying on its side and had grass and other debris hanging from it. Two escape hatches on its roof were opened. Writing on the side of the bus said: C.H. Destination and DBA: Canyon Coach Lines
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