Hundreds evacuated from Grand Canyon as dam breaks

[texasgirl]

How does one dam break and the whole park isn't at risk? Never been there, so, curious.



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Thank you!

 

[texasgirl]

Ok, guess noone else can tell me either, oh well.

 

[GotGarlic]

Sorry, didn't see this last night.

The Grand Canyon is *HUUUUUUUGE*. I mean really HUGE. It's 277 miles long by about 18 miles wide, so I can see that large parts of it weren't affected by this flood. More info is here: General Information

Here's a photo I took when I was there in 2005; it shows some perspective:

 

[texasgirl]

Thank you! So, there are different valleys in there. all different depths. Now I can understand a flood in a small area and then nothing just next to it. cool pic btw!!