Oak Creek flood sweeps vehicles into trees

Continuing our flood coverage, parts of the Verde Valley are covered in mud and flood debris after Oak Creek rose to historic levels over the weekend. And now families are displaced and damages to the homes and businesses there. Residents say the cleanup is just beginning. Fox 10's Taylor Wertz has more from Page Springs. You can see just how powerful that water was when it rushed into this trailer park. This car behind me appears to have taken sort of a nosedive. There's still water rushing into the area as we speak. It appears that several of the trailers here were actually pushed across the property, and a couple of them even ending up crunched under that bridge there. People here say they've never seen flooding like this. People in the Verde Valley are still trying to comprehend the devastating flooding that took place this weekend. I mean, it's really humbling how powerful this is. Trees, big stumps, refrigerators, kayaks. There were all kinds of things floating down the river. The debris left behind around Eric Glomsky's property includes a Jeep that washed down from a nearby trailer park. Can you see the wheels right there? I went over to that trailer park this morning and a massive single wide had pivoted 100 degrees and wedged up against the edge of the bank and the bridge there. And then there's another trailer like this with a car up on the edge of the tree above it. Residents say Oak Creek rose higher than they've ever seen it, topping 21 feet at the gauge. This is the biggest one I've ever seen since I've lived in Arizona. While the vines at Glomsky's Page Springs Vineyard were mostly unaffected, he's still shocked by the damage to other parts of his property. We had a 50 by 20 stage here with full lighting, electrical, and it's gone, you know. Many residents were forced to evacuate. Leaving homes flooded and filled with mud, the Verde Valley Humane Society says it stepped in after receiving a tearful call from a displaced family. Our medical team received a call of a family with six cats and four goats and sheep. They took in some unique tenants as a result. We're not set up for livestock, but we can make it work. If they need help, we can make it work. People in the area say it will be some time before the full extent of the flood damage is realized. Probably $75,000, $100,000 of the damage, and we're minimal. You know, so I'm sure there'll be millions of dollars of damage just in this little community right here. Many residents believe the burn scar left behind from the pocket fire in Sedona is what caused a lot of this excessive flooding. They say that this is a very busy time of year for them tourist-wise, and they hope that this won't deter people from coming as many of these businesses and vineyards are still open and ready to welcome people. In Page Springs, Taylor Wertz, Fox 10 News. And we had a bit of everything this weekend, including snow falling in Flagstaff. Recent weekend storms brought three inches of new snow to the higher elevations of Arizona's Snowbowl. And the resort has picked up 12 inches so far this season, though a lot of it has melted. Opening day is set for November 20th, with an average annual snowfall of over 100 inches. Flagstaff is one of the snowiest cities in the U.S. You're watching the Fox 10 Weather Experts with meteorologist Erica Horvath on Fox 10 News. Pretty cool to see all of that snow and yeah a lot of rain coming down and just to note Oak Creek actually only came an inch uh one and a half feet away from their record highest level so that is definitely what contributed to kind of this once in a lifetime flooding and we have now also seen some record rainfall for the fall season across the state and we still do have uh Pretty much a whole month to go. So Flagstaff and Show Low are currently seeing their record wettest fall seasons. Winslow is in second place. Payson and Prescott are in sixth place, so we have seen just a ton of rain this fall contributing to the flood warnings that we are seeing across the state right now. The storm system is tracking through the Rockies and bringing rain there across the plains, but we are still left in the wake of this storm with a lot of flood warnings, and I already showed you all of those that are within the valley area, but here's the rest of those. So the Tonto Creek is in a flood warning. Warning until tomorrow. Midday Pinto Creek is in a flood warning until this evening at 6 45 p.m. The Verde River is under a flood warning until 8 p.m. Tonight from Paulding all the way down into the mountains east of Black Canyon City. The Oak Creek is no longer under a flood warning. It has dropped below minor flood stage. Flagstaff, however, is under a flood warning until 11 30 p.m. Tonight because of flooding across the city. General area. The Little Colorado River is under a flash flood warning, which is very serious. That means that flooding that wasn't there before is either starting to happen again or already occurring. This is from Loop down to Winslow and this goes until 8 p.m. And beyond that, all the way down to Holbrook, a flood warning remains in effect until 10 a.m. tomorrow morning. Most of northern Arizona has seen flooding, and the Moenkopi Wash will stay under a flood warning until tonight at 1.30 in the morning. And most of Navajo Nation is underneath flood warnings until later on this evening and overnight due to flooding of washes, creeks, and just a lot of the roadways which are flooded out. And finally, down at the Gila River near Safford, there's a flood warning until tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 p.m. So the flooding is not fully over. As we go through the next couple of days, though, a drier weather pattern takes over. So we don't have any more rain in our forecast. We'll see a little ridge making its way over the southwest tomorrow, temperatures warming up by around 5 or so degrees. Then a storm system will track through southern Utah, but it's going to be a pretty dry system for us, and it's not going to do much for Arizona. So we're staying mild because of that. And then eventually, later on this end of the week, this trough will build. It's not going to bring in any moisture, but it will keep our temperatures cooler than normal. And then eventually this weekend, high pressure will build in over the western U.S., and then we'll see temperatures climbing back. Closer to average for this time in early November. So for tonight, we'll see a low of 57 degrees in Phoenix and 53 in Gila Bend. Some nice cool mornings ahead of us this week. 30 degrees in Flagstaff tonight, 44 in Sedona and 36 in Prescott. And tomorrow, we'll see warmer temperatures across the state, climbing to 78 degrees in Phoenix, which is still just a little cooler than average for this time of year. 66 in Payson, 61 in Show Low and 57 in Flagstaff. And the 10-day forecast. The forecast showing plenty of sunshine with no promising rain chances for the next 10 days and temperatures which are staying in the upper 70s and low 80s with overnight lows in the 50s.