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Jetal Agnihotri, 29, 29, of Tucson, Arizona, who escaped the flash flood warnings at Zion National Park on Friday to explore a portion of the park that requires visitors to wade through the Virginia River, reopened on Sunday. Her parents were deciding to remain back, but she wanted to visit the Narrows so she went on her own. When she did not return to the visitor's center parking lot at the time they had planned to return, they pleaded for assistance. Agnihotri's brother shot a video of a man being swept away in the park's wretched floods just weeks later. Since she can't swim, she said he's now worried about his sister. Following the floods, nearly 200 residents were left homeless for nine hours in Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico. Visitors said they were shocked by the torrential flooding, and noted that the visitor's center ran out of food for everyone