But, you know, there was a flash flood warning so why were all those people down there? Some are still unaccounted for.  (Reminder of great book "Over the Edge: Death in the Grand Canyon".)

The area of northern Arizona got 3 to 6 inches of rain Friday and Saturday and about 2 inches more on Sunday, said Daryl Onton, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Flagstaff. Early today, about 0.80 of an inch more fell on the area, the weather service said.

“That’s all it took — just a few days of very heavy thunderstorms,” Onton said.

About 6 a.m. Sunday, the Redlands Earthen Dam about 45 miles upstream from the Hualapai village of Supai broke, park officials said. The dam isn’t a “huge, significant” structure and its rupture was only one factor in the flooding, said Gerry Blair, a spokesman for the Coconino County Sheriff’s Department