Terry Tempest Williams: When the flash flood comes with godlike velocity, why do I stay and watch?

“The same forces that created the beauty are the same forces that could displace us,” Williams writes.

(City of Moab) Water was poised to breach Mill Creek at the Main Street Bridge during a June 21 flood in Moab.

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By Terry Tempest Williams | The New York Times

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