There were no immediate reports of injuries but roughly 60 vehicles were buried in mud and debris and about 500 visitors and 500 park workers were stuck inside the park, officials said.
The park near the California-Nevada state line received 1.46 inches of rain at the Furnace Creek area. That's about 75% of what the area typically gets in a year and more than has ever been recorded for the entire month of August.
"The noise from some of the rocks coming down the mountain was just incredible," he said in a phone interview Friday afternoon.The storm followed another major flooding event earlier this week at the park 120 miles northeast of Las Vegas. Some roads were closed Monday after they were inundated with mud and debris from flash floods that also hit western Nevada and northern Arizona hard.
"A lot of washes were flowing several feet deep. There are rocks probably 3 or 4 feet covering the road," he said.
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