Looks like it may have arrived in southern Utah. Thunderstorms and rain this afternoon. Hopefully we see enough precipitation in it to offset the lightening caused wildfire starts.
It's raining hard again on Cedar again right now. Enoch has flooding, and my daughter's house out on Westview is flooding (again).
Supposed to dry out after tomorrow.
Hate to say it......but we need a couple dry days.
I've lived through many hurricanes and can honestly say I've never seen rain that hard. It's like a microburst of rain. Luckily it only lasted 8-10 minutes over my house. Freaking nuts though.
I was driving down I-70 one summer between Crescent Junction and Thompson Springs when up ahead was just a black cloud that looked like a set of drapes coming down onto the freeway. When I pulled into it I couldn't see a thing the water was coming down so hard. There was about 6 inches of water on the roadway and this went on for about a mile. When I came out of it the sun was out and there was no indication of any rain had even happened.
Spanish Fork is getting a good soaking right now. Cut my recurve shootIng practice short and I was really in a groove, but I dont mind one bit. I'm so **** grateful for this monsoon season I cant even tell you. What a relief! Maybe with a little luck we will get some snow this winter!
I hope you Cedar guys are staying safe down there and aren't sustaining damage. Watching the footage of that guy that lost his rig in Summit on the news was kind of stunning. Here in Springville, we got a pleasant rain, but nothing heavy at all. Enough to water the garden and lawn. It will suffice.
Estimate is 200 homes with basement damage in Enoch. And that driver on the frontage road in Summit got so lucky.
Much needed break this week. Hopefully whatever is causing these crazy monsoon moisture levels will dissipate and we can just appreciate "normal" amounts of rain.
I was curious if anyone has been out to Quichapa and if so how full is it. It came down hard a few times here in Parowan, but I've seen much worse here.
Looking across the valley from up by the "C" when I come home from the cabin, it has gone from totally dry, up to 1/3 to 1/2 at the most full now.
They try to get most of it to go out into the valley now to get more down in the aquifers.
the view of the smoke filled valley isn't great -- it's terrible!
I've had big (mature) toads showing up on my patio at my place. The dog was quite confused with a toad the other night -- she didn't know what to make of it. It's pretty amazing that I can build a house in the middle of desert sagebrush and cactus, and after a few rainstorms I have toads emerging from the ground!
Glad to hear about the rain! I hope the state recovers from this massive drought, but I would be ok if it took a few years of water shortages to help shape a new paradigm of water conservation in this state, and in the West.
I woke up at 1am from the flashing lights. Looking across the valley at Cedar Mountain, it looked like the mountain was a war zone. It was pretty impressive. I watched until about 2am, then fell asleep in time for the phone emergency notice to go off at 3am, and again at 4am.
Up here in northern Utah we are finally gettinf some GOOD rain. It was raining when I left for work at 530am and it's still raining now it 845. I slept all through the night, but my wife said it stormed all through the night too.
The in-laws are fine, but Delta sustained widespread flooding this morning. Can't say I've seen Delta and flooding in the same sentence too many times in my days.
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