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Got caught in a flash flood while mapping a creek bed in the Cascades last month, lost a whole day's worth of samples.
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nina_thompson501mo ago
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_kelly1mo 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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sullivan.quinn1mo 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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