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Show > BA S he Salt Lake Tnbune Record rainfall floods Utah construction materials has blocked natural flood channels, making flooding worse, Or ton said The heavy rains also pelted 40 bicycle UTAH/THE WEST Monday, August 25, 2003 expected late Sunday night. The storm filled the parking lot of Bryce Valley High School before dumping into the elementary school, where it flooded dres racers participating in the three-stage Tour sing rooms, said Bronson @ Continued from BI de Parowan Gap bike race, which wrapped up Sunday. And rockslides were reported in to Logan, leaving about 18,000 customers temporarily without power in Davis Weber, Morgan, Box Elder and Cache Parowan Canyon and sandbagging contin ued Sunday along Parowan Creek Elsewhere in southern Utah @A segment of US 89 about 15 miles Tropic resident Kay Shakespeare said her house on Bryce Way was barely missed, but the rain probably ruined a portion of her haycrop. Connie Bell offered praise for the volunteer firefighters who pumped water out of hercellar “They asked me if there was anything else they could do, and | said, ‘Oh, yeah, bring some lunch,’ and they came back with a pizza,” said Bell. Dennis Spencer stood almost ankle deep in mud on 500 West in Tropic, shaking his head. “It [water] was 2- and 3-foot high going down the street, said Spencer. “The only ones wholikedit were the ducks, swimming in back yards.” RaymondBrinkerhoffspent part of Sunday pushing mud around with a huge grader blade attachedto a big yellow tractor. “I’ve lived here60 years andthis is only the second timeits [flooded] like this,” he said from thetruck cab. “This time is worse than thelast time.” On the south edge of Tropic, town worker Bret Chynoweth and his county counterpart Dan Brinkerhoff said they plannedto use a huge bucket tractor to dig troughs for diverting water from another ounties, Utah Power spokesman Dave Es kelsen said While Salt Lake County Saw heavy rain fall, it largely was spared from storm related harm In Wellsville, southwest of Logan, res! dents fired up chainsaws Sunday to clear tree limbs dropped on Center and Main treets. As in nearby Mendon, wind and runoff from the Wellsville Mountains up street signs and blew a tram rooted tres poline into a tree Provo residents saw marble-sized hail ind winds of up to 54 mph blow over Utah County, said David James, the Brigham Young University weatherstation oversee! Heavy flooding slammed 26 homes in Parowan, with six of them sustaining structural damage of between $5,000 and $25,000, according to Parowan fire Chief Al bert Orton. Saturday’s storms were the worst to hit the town in more than 15 years, he said In some case: ind illegal) ;, newhousing development of garbage and dumping north of Panguitch in Circleville Canyon was temporarily submerged @ State Road 12, five miles west of Tor rey, was closed when water covered the roadway. @ Route 24, west of Capitol Reef was in undated and water wasreportedly reaching the Silver Creek Bridge, thoughit had subsided somewhat by Sunday @ The Freemont River rose 7 feet in three hours southwest of Kanesville, closing 30 miles of Route 24 Saturday evening. For residents of tiny Tropic, there was little comfort in the strange coincidence of having a storm wash through the commu nity of 550 residents exactly four decades after another memorable downpour. By Sundayafternoon, State Route12, the main road through town, still was caked in mud as was Bryce Way and other northsouth running streets. Everywhere, it seemed, tractors of all sizes were either cleaning up, digging channels around houses or buildingdikesin hopesof holding back waters from another rainstorm I SMELL A RAT storm. “The heavens opened and it just rained,” said Chynoweth. “The drought is over.” Mank Havnes/The Salt Lake Trine Tropic Mayor GeanSeiler, left, holds open a sand bag at the city yard on Sunday where volunteers gathered to fill more bags in anticipation of further heavy rains and floods. Mayor GeanSteiler was among about 50 volunteers laboring Sunday at the city yard, filling sand bags to form a line of defense against future runoff. ” “Fortunately this doesn’t happenoften, said Steiler. Assistant Fire Chief Ron Harris said an emergency command post and evacuation center was set up at the elementary school. Only two families were briefly evacuated from their homes and another from a bed andbreakfast. He said about 200 volunteers nearly half the town— hadhelped out Sundayfilling sandbagsor cleaning up. “When I left my house [Saturday] and saw Bryce Way, I knew wewerein trouble,” said Harris. “There was 2 feet of water coming down both sidesofthestreet.” Harris said the owner of Bryce Pioneer Village in Tropic had a huge Dutch oven dinner prepared for a special event Saturday night, which was canceled because of theflood. Instead, the food was deliveredto the evacuation center. “Wehad Dutch oven potatoes, beans and cobbler,” said Harris. “It was great.” Josnua Brown The Salt LakeTribune Ziggy gets first aid from owner Dru Fry of Sandy, after his roommate bit him on the foot. Ziggy was part of the Utah Pet and Companion Expo at the South Towne Expo Centerin Sandy during the weekend. “Utah’s Best Burger” Utah Holiday/Salt Lake Magazine - 1978 “Best Holy Trinity of Burgers” Se LEA oe 2003 Tribune reporter Michael N. Westley and the Associated Press contributed to this story. Burley to renegotiate county policing contract Unfair burden: ‘Whecity’s cost analysis showsits residents pay morethan thoseofother towns The other four cities pay a combined total of $13,700. Each city contracts for a_ specific number of patrol hours for a specific fee. Burley receives 31,200 hours of patrol. That translates to an hourly rate of $42.83, or a perresident annual cost of $143.42 for law enforcement. In comparison, the city of Albion paysthe sheriffs office $2,500 for 104 contracted hours of patrol. Officers actually logged 491 patrol hours last year. That translates into an hourly rate of $5.09 for police patrol and meanseach of Albion’s 262 residents paid $9.54 a enforcement contract. Councilman Dennis Curtis had prepared a cost analysis of what the city of Burley pays compared to what the other four Cassia County cities pay for law enforcement THe Associarep Prass BURLEY, Idaho City Council members say this is the final year they will pay Cassia County more than $1 million for a year of undefined police services The council last week took the first steps to officially notify the county of its intention to re negotiate the terms of the law Formerjudge whotradedlighter sentencesforsex is sent to prison Those numbers show what Curtis said is an unfair burden on Burley residents, compared to residents of Oakley, Declo, Albion and Malta. The Cassia County sheriff's budget is $2.25 million. This year, the city is paying $1.33 million for law enforcement protection. That’s the same amount included in the pro posed budget for 2003-04. REMOVE © + PET ! URINE , SANTA FE, N.M. 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