The great flood of 2009 has been written even tho the year is not over. On Thursday September 10, 2009, a portion of Sedona received a direct hit from a monsoon storm, so focused it was only a mile across. It dropped almost 3″ of rain in less than 40 minutes. Normally monsoon storms deposit much less rain over a wider area, however this one was different. It caught the town completely by surprise.