![]() ![]() Homes were lifted off their foundations and carried in the swell of mudslides in Farmington. It was merely a bullet point list of the damage wreaked upon the saturated landscape, causing ruin and even one tiny town - Thistle near Spanish Fork Canyon - becoming an underwater ghost town. ![]() Months of damage control and cleanup followed the soggiest spring in Utah’s modern history.Ī Deseret News front page article on May 29, 1983, wasn’t typical of the usual above-the-fold headlining news. State Street near Eagle Gate was a river with boardwalks and bridges interlaced over running water. Will State Street in downtown Salt Lake City become a river again, or will it be far worse? In April 1983, the city sandbagged 900 East from a conduit break to 1700 South, forcing water into a storm drain that later emptied into the “13th South River.” While the depth of the water in the sandbagged channel increased to more than 5 feet in some spots, the flowing water did not indicate that the runoff would ease anytime soon. Record snowfall is causing torrential speculation regarding history repeating itself once the weather consistently warms up. The wet Utah of 1983 is once again haunting longtime natives of this snow-packed state. ![]()
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