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LAKE POWELL — Flash flooding at Lake Powell recently made headlines, and a Utahn captured it on video.
Salt Lake resident Mario Quintero and his family were on their houseboat at Lake Powell on June 5 when the sudden rainstorm hit. He said they were in the main channel about 2 miles north of the Escalante River arm of Lake Powell when the storm “spun our houseboat in circles a few times before we were able to regain steering control.”
Quintero said they experienced 11 minutes of zero visibility while the storm raged. He captured the ordeal with a GoPro camera attached to the front of their houseboat. After the storm passed, he used his drone to capture footage of a waterfall that was around 100 feet high and 60 feet wide.
A Price family was caught in the same storm and their boat was submerged in the flash flooding.
Watch the videos to see the incredible waterfalls that resulted from the flooding.
Mario Quintero
