Residents were cleaning up Sunday after a mammoth thunderstorm in north-central Utah caused widespread flooding, mudslides and brief evacuations.
Residents were cleaning up Sunday after a mammoth thunderstorm in north-central Utah caused widespread flooding, mudslides and brief evacuations.
The storm Saturday caused a two-hour delay in the football game in Provo between Brigham Young University and the University of Texas, forcing fans to huddle in their cars and other sheltered areas to avoid lightning.
About 100 people were evacuated briefly Saturday in Alpine City, a town of about 10,000 people roughly halfway between Provo and Salt Lake City where the National Weather Service said three-quarters of an inch of rain fell in just 15 minutes. The storm caused mudslides in the town and in the American Fork Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains.
"It was like a black monster of lava — it just came," Vickie Reay of Alpine City told NBC station KSL of Salt Lake City, describing the water, mud and debris that spilled over the wall in front of her home and into her yard. "It was 100 feet wide, and it just got bigger and bigger and just picked up more momentum."
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