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Monday, August 31, 2026

Himalayan-like floods hit Grand Canyon

(Arizona's Family (3TV / CBS 5)) Grand Canyon flash flood: breaking down the storm, burn scar, and safety impacts
(Robyn Adele Anderson) Jazz cover of this disaster: Megadeth's "Symphony of Destruction"


First Hawaii, then Nepal and Tibet in the Himalayas, and now Utah is swelling, and Arizona's Grand Canyon is getting wiped out as torrential floods sweep through in a symphony of destruction over the weekend, as wildfires burn in California and Texas.


Grand Canyon secrets exposed*
On Saturday, August 29, 2026, at approximately 2:30 pm (MST), a major flash flood surged through Bright Angel Creek inside Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.

The flood killed at least 1, while about 15 are reported missing, and 62 have been rescued.

In 2025, the Dragon Bravo Fire destroyed vegetation on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and had dried the land into an impermeable, clay-like surface incapable of absorbing water.

The flood occurred during a convergence of various environmental conditions, including the Arizona monsoon, Super El NiƱo, a marine heatwave, Tropical Storm Iselle, and a heat dome pulling storms eastward, resulting in atmospheric moisture levels being 5-15% higher than average.
How will evidence of giants in U.S. survive?
Hours before the flood, two smaller storm systems and several rounds of rain moved into the North Rim, with rains of up to 1 inch per hour being observed [1]. At the time of the flood, the downpour had intensified to two-thirds of an inch in a quarter of an hour [2].

The heavy rainfall combined with the steep, rocky canyon terrain caused water to funnel down into the narrow Bright Angel Creek [3], water levels rising to over 5 feet in within 10 minutes [2].

Tourists in the area variously described witnessing heavy rainfall, the creek rapidly overflowing, cascading waterfalls, 15-foot-tall floodwaters, and buildings and vehicles being washed away.

The flood also incited several secondary hazards including rockfalls, landslides, and mudslides [3, 4, 5]. More

Even the Buddha had a grand canyon like his hometown's Band-e Amir National Park
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Forbidden History Revealed (GenSix Prods)
*For the first time in history, here is an eyewitness account to the fact that Egyptian-style artifacts and giant skeletons were pulled out of the Grand Canyon in Arizona and stored in secret, underground Smithsonian warehouses. This investigative documentary by Steve Quayle (no relation to VP Dan Quayle) explores the following:
  • Why are the landforms in the Grand Canyon named after Egyptian deities?
  • Why are DNA samples from giant mummies and skeletons being extracted by the militaries of the world?
  • Was a live 21-foot giant captured in 1877 with the most unusual features ever noted?
  • Will the giants of yesteryear become the "super soldiers" of tomorrow?
This is yet another great Smithsonian cover up. Forbidden History Revealed, Ep. 1 (DVD)
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Wednesday, January 7, 2026

1-year anniversary of LA Fires (1/7)

First anniversary commemoration of the Eaton Fire starts at 4:30 pm, Wednesday eve.
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Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster

Firestorm (Jacob Soboroff)
This hardcover -- released January 6, 2026 -- by victim and author Jacob Soboroff has 3.0 out of 5 stars (with 4 reviews) yet is somehow already a #1 Best Seller in Natural Disasters on Amazon.

Why? [It is] A "gripping, unshakeable firsthand account" (San Francisco Chronicle) of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles, from the MS NOW reporter and New York Times bestselling author of Separated, who covered the fires on the ground as an LA native.

"Read[s] like a sci-fi thriller.” — Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles reporter Jacob Soboroff
[One year ago,] on the morning of January 7, 2025, a message pinged the phone of Jacob Soboroff, a national reporter for MS NOW. “Big Palisades fire. We are evacuating,” his brother texted within minutes of the blaze engulfing the hillside behind the home where he and his pregnant wife were living.

“Really bad.” An attached photo showed a huge black plume rising from behind the house, an umbrella of smoke towering over everything they owned. Jacob rushed to the office of the bureau chief. “I should go. I grew up in the Palisades.”

Pacific Palisades: 'They let us burn!' protest

Grocery Outlet of Altadena has been a hub for events since the Eaton Fire
Future PP Mayor Spencer Pratt
Soon he was on the front line of the blaze—his first live report of what would turn out to be weeks covering unimaginable destruction, from both the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire, in Altadena.

In the days to come, Soboroff appeared across the networks of NBC News as Los Angeles was ablaze, met with displaced residents and workers, and pressed California Gov. Gavin Newsom in an interview on Meet the Press.

But no story Soboroff has covered at home or abroad—the trauma of family separation at the border, the displacement of [NATO's] war in Ukraine, the [CIA's] collapse of order in Haiti—could have prepared him for reporting live as the hallmarks of his childhood were engulfed in flames around him while his hometown burned to the ground.

But for Soboroff, questions remained after the fires were controlled:
  • What had he just witnessed?
  • How could it have happened?
  • Is it inevitable something like it will happen again?

This photo is very misleading because two LA fire departments stood down and let it burn.
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New date and location: Jan 11, 2026
This set Soboroff off on months of reporting—with firefighters, fire victims, political leaders, academics, earth scientists, wildlife biologists, meteorologists, and more—that made him keenly aware of how the misfortune of seeing his past carbonize was also a form of time travel into the dystopian world his children will inhabit.
  • Eaton Fire Candlelight Vigil
  • Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, 6:30 pm
  • Altadena Town & Country Club
  • 2290 Country Club Dr., Altadena, CA 91001

Plans changed. See correct info above.
This is because the 2025 LA Fires were not an isolated tragedy, but rather they are a harbinger—"the fire of the future," in the words of one senior emergency—management official.

Firestorm is the story of the costliest wildfire in American history, the people it affected, and the deeply personal connection to one journalist covering it.

Eaton Fire burned LA foothills
It is a love letter to Los Angeles, a yearning to understand the fires, and why America’s new age of disaster we are living through portends that—without a reckoning of how Los Angeles burned—there is more yet, and worse, to come. More
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