On Friday, torrential rains triggered flash flooding in Death Valley National Park in California. Floods buried a number of cars and made several roads in the national park closed.
– Huge boulders and whole trees down, said John Sirlin, a photographer who witnessed the flood. He explained that the stream turned into a raging river, and the water gushed down the hillside.
– The sound of rocks coming down from the hillside is incredible, he said in a phone interview with AP News.
About 500 visitors and 500 employees were stranded inside the national park because roads were blocked and cars buried in mud, reports NTB.
Some of them sought refuge in the historic hotel The Inn, located in the middle of a national park.
No injuries have been reported yet.
The flood caused several trash containers to be pushed and collided with cars parked in the park. This further causes the cars to be pushed into each other.
Several parts of the hotel were also flooded, wrote NTB.
Death Valley National Park is located in the Mojave Desert on the border between California and Nevada. And usually the hottest and driest national parks in the US.
On Friday, 37 millimeters of rain fell. There is almost as much rain as the area normally receives for an entire year.
Also earlier this week, the national park was hit by heavy flooding.
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