A little more than 24 hours after evacuees were allowed to return to their homes of Elden Lookout Road, Elden resident John Harper drove across the nearly six inches of sediments covering some of the roads in his neighborhood.
A moment later, Harper’s phone emitted a flash flood alert Thursday afternoon, but not one that effects the Elden area.
Such warnings were never a concern for Harper, or any other resident living off of Elden Lookout Road before the Museum Fire. However, now every one of them is keeping an eye on their phones in anticipation of a flooding alert. In the aftermath of the Musuem Fire, the National Weather Service and Coconino County are warning Harper and his neighbors their community is directly in the path of the runoff caused by monsoon rains in the burned area to the north of Elden Lookout Road.