The storm followed major flooding 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.
LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of hotel guests trapped by flash flooding at Death Valley National Park were able to drive out after crews cleared a pathway through rocks and mud, but roads damaged by floodwaters or choked with debris were expected to remain closed into next week, officials said Saturday.
Nikki Jones, a restaurant worker who is living in a hotel with fellow employees, said rain was falling when she left for breakfast Friday morning. By the time she returned, rapidly pooling water had reached the room’s doorway.Fearful the water would come into their ground-floor room, Jones and her friends put their luggage on beds and used towels at the bottom of doorways to keep water from streaming in. For about two hours, they wondered whether they would get flooded.
The flooding “cut off access to and from Death Valley, just washing out roads and producing a lot of debris,” Adair said. “The noise from some of the rocks coming down the mountain was just incredible,” he said in a phone interview Friday afternoon.
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Tourists find safety after floods close Death Valley roadsHundreds of hotel guests trapped by flash flooding at Death Valley National Park were able to drive out after crews cleared a pathway through rocks and mud.
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Tourists find safety after floods close Death Valley roadsHundreds of hotel guests trapped by flash flooding at Death Valley National Park were able to drive out after crews cleared a path for them
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