Oak Creek flooding prompts emergency in Sedona

Good morning, guys. You can take a look. This is right along the Oak Creek right now. This is Oak Creek Cliffs Estates. We have a lot of homes that are right over here. You can see there's some up there in the hills right now, right along this river. And this used to be or was supposed to be a road leading up to those homes. At this point, there's debris, there's trees, there's mud. It doesn't look very much like a road before. We want to bring in Anne, who lives here in this area, to tell us more about what you were seeing. So, Anne, what was it like yesterday? It was a lot of water and it was angry water. water. And what I mean by that was the trees and the debris that was coming down. We even saw a hot tub float down the creek, a hot tub from someone's backyard. So there's a ton of debris coming from the backyards. And what was crazy, too, is there was a white Jeep. Grand Cherokee that was parked here along with two other cars and they are now all the way in the campground 50 plus yards away 200 yards the black car the black Audi which is one of the residents and this is where we're supposed to park unless there's a big flood event. Luckily I think Saturday night I had a gut feeling and I moved my truck up the hill so my truck would have It was parked right before the white car, so my truck would have been gone as well. So I'm glad I did that, but we've got a big cleanup ahead of us to try to figure out how to get rid of all this debris. And trees are missing, like several trees that used to be in the creek are just gone. And our bridge is damaged, so the pedestrian bridge to get in and out isn't going to happen. And we have to wait. Our road might be missing. We don't know until the water goes down. We don't know. And how were you able to get from your home? You came out here, did you just hike over or climb over? Yeah, I took the pedestrian suspension bridge. Probably shouldn't have crossed it, but I did. You did to get over there. Yeah. And you've lived here for a long time and you've never seen it quite like this. You've seen some other floods though. We even bought our property in 2003 thinking this would be a great adventure in our lives and it turns out it's a wonderful adventure. You have to hike a lot and stay fit. But we bought and built, we built our house here. So we knew this going into the whole odyssey. But... But it's life, and we'll just keep going on. It's a beautiful place to live, so no complaints as far as that goes. So what are you going to do today to try and clean some of this up? You guys have to work through some of the debris? We have an excavator on call, so we'll call him up to move what he can. If he can get out, he's in Camp Verde, so he might be flooded. That's the problem. All the people who would be doing this work also probably have issues as well. It's Brewer Excavation, so We'll have to call and wait to see when they can come out to do the excavating to at least get this cleared in the debris field and then we have to figure out how to fix our suspension bridge. Wow. Looking at all of this now, what are you thinking? What goes through your mind? Be aware of water. Mother Nature is a powerful being and you just don't know what stays or what goes. She's in charge. Well, thank you for your time. I'm glad that you're doing well and that you're okay. You're able to get your car out of here. So we'll send it back to you guys, but just such incredible seeing the force of nature to you guys can see that vehicle down there to the white car, how far it moved to. So just incredible. I'm glad everyone's okay out here that we've spoken to so far. Yeah. And then the fact that she called it angry water, I think when you take a look at those rapids, it's like something you see in the Grand Canyon, not that something you see in Oak Creek And we're glad everyone was okay there, but the water is still moving. As you can see, Irene's photojournalists are giving us a closer look. Thank you, Irene.