Floods USA Utah 2 local news reports w transcripts at Heating Planet Blog.

We begin a series of posts about flooding today all over the USA. First Southern Utah two videos with transcripts about areas underwater after unusually severe storms over the weekend. Heating Planet blog will cover floods in Arizona and the East Coast in the next hours. Oct 12, 2025.1- In the desert southwest, severe flooding continues to impact Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado after heavy rain this weekend.

WATCH: Flash flooding threatening southwest United States KHOU Oct 13 early AM

In the desert Southwest, 0:02 severe flooding continues to impact Utah, 0:05 Arizona, 0:06 New Mexico, 0:07 and Colorado after heavy rains this weekend. 0:10 Video from La Plata County, 0:12 Colorado shows 0:13 Valacito Creek, 0:15 where nearly 400 homes were evacuated due to rising waters. 0:20 No casualties have been reported, 0:21 but county officials say more than 100 homes were impacted by the flooding. 0:26 In Arizona. 0:26 Heroic rescue this morning caught on camera shows firefighters 0:31 pulling a man to safety after his truck 0:34 became trapped in floodwaters near New River. 0:37 Similar scenes unfolded in Grand County, 0:39 Utah, 0:40 where emergency teams saved two people 0:43 after their truck became stuck in rising muddy waters. 0:47 So far no deaths have been reported, 0:49 but flooding remains a serious threat, 0:52 and residents therKHOU 11  Description Your Houston news team |

[KE: Transcripts here for readers writers and researchers. Plus, you never know, video can disappear]

2- UTAH local report: floodwaters damage homes, temporarily close roads in parts of Southern Utah Sr George News Oct 12 3 PM Pacific time    Several emergency personnel have 0:01 reported heavy flooding throughout areas 0:03 of southern Utah Saturday morning. Some 0:05 of the areas affected include Pine 0:07 Valley, Gunlock, New Harmony, Damron 0:10 Valley, Washington City, Leverkin, and 0:12 Hurricane. Sergeant Lucas Alfred from 0:15 the Washington County Sheriff's Office 0:16 says most of the roads that were closed 0:18 overnight have been reopened outside of 0:20 some exceptions. 0:22 So, um, as far as the floods went last 0:24 night, they had some road debris that 0:27 closed some roads temporarily. our 0:29 county roads department was out until 0:31 probably 2:00 this morning um working on 0:34 things as it came in. Um they were able 0:36 to um get most of those roads opened at 0:39 this point. Um I'm not aware of any that 0:41 are hard closure in the county except 0:43 for Colob Canyon Road in Zion National 0:45 Park was just closed due to rock slides. 0:48 Other emergency personnel in the region 0:50 are reporting flooded homes, lightning 0:52 strikes, and the possibility of more 0:54 rainfall Saturday afternoon. For more 0:56 detailed information on the flooding in 0:58 southern Utah, read the full story. This 1:01 is Stockton Meyers reporting for St.George News, your number one source for 1:04 local news

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