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Show Heavy Rain Hits Needles Area Monday A cloudburst over the Needles Need-les Section of Canyonlands National Park Monday afternoon af-ternoon left three vehicles stranded in Salt Creek overnight over-night and washed out the landing strip at Canyonlands Resort. According to Chief Ranger Glen Alexander a total of ,64 ' inches of rain was recorded; ', Salt Creek was still running Wednesday, and would remain re-main closed to traffic until Thursday. There were no injuries in-juries to occupants of the 3 vehicles, who spent their 12 hour wait for flood waters to subside on higher "J Officials at Canyonkwll Resort reported the torrent came largely within a 20 minute min-ute period, and that the runway run-way carried water a foot deep at its peak .leaving trenches as deep as 3 feet in places. San Juan County patrols were working Wednesday to repair damage, and Canyonlands Aviation Av-iation was back in business, with about 90 per cent of the runway useable then. No other incidents were reported re-ported as a result of tEa storm which logged only .10 inch precipitation at Island in the Sky. |