Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100612:11:07:00
Camping? >> this all happened really, really quickly. in a matter of minutes that river rose 20 feet, you know. this was a huge amount of water in a very short period of time and the ground was already saturated. now, want to talk a little bit about the terrain because that was a huge part of this whole thing. we put on google earth. here you can see the valley and the river. here's where the campground is. look at the hills all surrounding it. when you get as much as six to seven inches of rainfall in less than 24 hours, all that rain that's in the mountainside drains down into the tributarie...