Got caught in a flash flood while mapping a creek bed in the Cascades last month, lost a whole day's worth of samples. | Geology Rocks - Freelance Forum - The Community for Independent Professionals

Man, that's brutal. Losing a whole day's work like that must have stung. What kind of samples were you after, like water quality stuff or sediment? I've always wondered, when something like a flash flood hits, does it just ruin everything or can you sometimes salvage data from the messed up site afterwards?

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beth_kelly7mo ago

Damn, that sucks. Were you mapping for a specific project, or just general survey work? I'd be so mad about losing the sediment samples especially, those can tell you a lot about recent flow history.

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gracej996mo ago

Wasn't there a paper about salvaging flood data?

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sullivan.quinn7mo ago

Flash floods are nature's way of telling you your data collection schedule is trash. Hope you at least got a cool story out of it.

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