Flash flooding occurred...

at dawn today in Castle Valley, Utah in response to a slow moving thunderstorm that parked itself in the Pinhook Valley. Runoff flowed to Placer Creek making some of the roads in the community impassable.

Elsewhere the flooding jumped the arroyo and spread widely across unoccupied spaces, but water, mud and debris came quite close to a number of homes.

Culverts filled to capacity for a few moments causing some of the flood waters to escape over the roadways.

Fortunately only roads and ditches took a beating with this storm. (Click images to enlarge.)

Note the dark gray color of the flood waters in the images, in distinct contrast to the red color that one would expect due to the red silty soils present in the area. This is due to the fact that the Pinhook - Placer Creek watershed burned during September 2008, and the ashy soils have been mobilized by this event.

UPDATE: The second image above has been published in this week's Moab Times-Independent newspaper.