“It won’t be as warm,” Miyer said of Sunday. She said warm temperatures early in the day on Saturday combined with storms coming up from southern Utah resulted in Saturday’s heavy rains and strong winds of up 60 mph. The weather forecast for Sunday should be a little less aggressive, according to KSL meteorologist Lynae Miyer. In other storm-related news, about 2,500 people lost power for a time during the tumultuous weather - 1,124 in Salt Lake City and 1,399 in Orem. Moore expects the storm caused thousands and thousands of dollars in damage to areas of his city. "So when you stop the water coming one place, it makes it worse at another place.” That funneled more water down this way," he said. “The debris and everything else has come down and plugged off a lot of the storm drains. Payson Mayor Rick Moore said the city’s drains couldn’t handle so much water that fell so quickly. "It just kept raining and coming and didn’t stop,” Beck said. It had gone up and over into their window wells within about 20 minutes.”Ĭity crews with backhoes arrived to help, along with many neighbors and volunteers. "We had neighbors with buckets trying to bail them out. “Our neighbors just had huge puddles everywhere," said Payson resident Jodi Beck. Neighbors in a Payson neighborhood had to dig a ditch to try and drain water away from their flooded homes.
The women, both in their 30s, had gotten lost but were able to call for help before the battery in their mobile phone died. Two hikers were also stranded in Draper's Corner Canyon. Meanwhile, 150 people were stranded at the Timpanogos Visitors' Center during the closure.
Officials said one vehicle was struck by a boulder. Crews worked deep into the night to clear the roadway. The Utah County Sheriff’s Office reported that state Route 92 was shut down at mile post 10 in American Fork Canyon due to road debris from mudslides. Fortunately, no one was injured, though damage estimates could be significant. Volunteers worked for hours stacking sandbags to hold back water flows cascading down city streets, sending water and mud into basements and living rooms. "When I came up here, probably about 6:15 or 6:30, the water was running down the street about a foot and a half deep so it's probably the worst I've ever seen," said Lone Peak Fire Battalion Chief Joseph McRae. Authorities said three debris basins at the base of Box Elder Canyon were also overrun. The inside of her home was spared, but fire officials said about 12 homes in Alpine were flooded. This is the fourth time she's dealt with flooding since that fire burned more than 5,000 acres last summer.
Reay's house on Box Elder Drive is directly in the path of the Quail Fire burn scar in Box Elder Canyon. "It was 100 feet wide and it just got bigger and bigger and just picked up more momentum," she said. Her son took cellphone video of water, mud and debris spilling over the wall in front of their home and into their yard. "It was like a black monster lava, it just came,” said Alpine homeowner Vickie Reay. One family said that when the storm hit, water and mud immediately came rushing down the side of the mountain. Flooding was also reported in areas of Provo, Orem and Payson, though no evacuations were ordered in those areas.Ĭity officials issued the evacuation order, forcing many Alpine residents from their homes after heavy downpours turned roads into rivers. The National Weather Service reported that 0.75 inches of rain fell in just 15 minutes at the Alpine burn scar. The pounding rain even caused a two-hour delay of the BYU-Texas football game at Lavell Edwards Stadium while fans, who were told to leave their seats, huddled in their cars or anywhere that would keep them dry and safe from lightning. Heavy rains also caused mudslides in American Fork Canyon and flooding in areas, particularly throughout Utah County. The floods and the mud forced about 100 residents of an Alpine neighborhood to evacuate their homes for a few hours Saturday. ALPINE - The rain kept coming and coming.
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