Posted on 01/11/2005 5:12:01 PM PST by Lokibob
Floods Rage in Utah's Dixie Flooding raged again across sections of soggy southern Utah Tuesday, washing away homes, threatening bridges and filling houses with muddy river water. Utah Governor Jon Huntsman toured the flood ravaged area and called the devastation "breathtaking".
(Excerpt) Read more at kutv.com ...
Man, we can hope. Powell needs all the help she can get. Those boat ramps are trailheads these days.
Big BUMP to that! Heritage and family run deeper than any ole dried up, washed out river flood does. The fine folk of Utah's Dixie will pull together, put their lives back together, and get on with their lives, God bless em.
Hopefully our six year drought will be seeing its end...
>>A Smith's grocery store was evacuated after its roof bowed under the weight of heavy snow.<<
Doesn't it occur to people when there is a large heavy snowfall to shovel off the roofs?
I was thinking that foreign countries would contribute to our disasters.
Oh, that's right. It is a one-way street isn't it?
Well yes, the thoughtful, and the crazy. Depends upon the slope of your roof.
You'd love the video of me and Pete scraping the 3 feet off our flat garage roofs about 5 years ago. I personally thought we were going to die.
When we finished with my garage, there was a lump of snow in my back yard that the kids AND DOGS just walked up onto the roof. LOL. Then it went sub zero for a couple weeks. The lump didn't melt until April.
Well at least you could buy your beer in pallet lots during that time. I think it was smart of you to push it off on the shady side............... LOL
I know that wasn't intentional, had to be pure accident.
Yes, with all this death and devastation, you have to wonder what Jesus has in mind.
Any idea on how much Powell has risen in December and January?
Looks like it's dropped.
http://www.usbr.gov/uc/water/rsvrs/ops/crsp_40_gc.html
Seems like it will make a big difference. This area has been in drought for quite a while. It's just more than unfortunate "the cure" happened all at once.
Spent a week on Lake Powell this summer. All I can say is God's handiwork there is most impressive. The place is just breathtaking, especially at dawn. The nightly shooting star show I will never forget.
I've traveled a lot in my adult life and Lake Powell will always be my favorite.
(Psst: It's not a natural lake)
Holy COW! That's HORRIBLE!!! I'll be praying for you, your family and your state.
Stay safe my friend.
Nothing like a picture for making things really clear.
Nah. Just move to the high ground like the Tibetans did. (They have many flood stories/myths of the 'mountain-topping' variety of flood.)
That must have been the winter my dad dragged the snowblower up on the patio roof, and then the house roof. My mom went out and yelled at him, but he couldn't hear her and snowblowed all that snow all over her.
Channel 2 (KUTV) is keeping watch on a house about to fall into the river in St George. The poor owners saved up their whole life and built the house. And now it is going to collapse into the river. Very sad stories in St George.
Sounds like the seas heaving themselves beyond their bounds kind of stuff.
My wife and I spent two nights in St. George last September. It's a beautiful area, and hard to think of it being flooded.
That reminds me of the 6-year drought in California, that ended in 1993.
Shasta Dam and Lake in N. Cali. is quite large, though not quite on Powells scale. Once it started raining, water 'experts' were saying that it would take ten years of normal rainfall to refill the resevoir.
It started raining on January 01. By the end of March, the spillways on Shasta Dam were opened and Sacramento, 200 miles downstream, was flooding. 3 months was the fastest refill in the resevoirs history.
Yeah, your story is not that uncommon. I've seen it happen in a couple of other places -- the experts say 3 years or 5 years or 10 years, but 3-4 months is all it really took. Lake Powell is, however, much larger than these resevoirs, so we shall see.
Pssst. I bet he knows that. I think he's talking about the sky and the canyons and stuff like that. Have you ever been there? I used to visit regularly although I haven't been there in a decade or so, so I don't know how the drought has changed the picture. If you've never seen it, I highly recommend the trip.
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