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Show August Rains Bring Moisture Level Over 3 Inches If the last half of August is as wet as the first half has been all records for precipitation will be broken and Parowan Valley will come a long way In making up for its moisture deficiency of the past year, according to records rec-ords compiled by Clayton Ras-mus'sen, Ras-mus'sen, weather observer. Total rainfall recorded here in the first 15 days of August was 3.11 Inches. Up to press time last week 1.64 Inches had been recorded. re-corded. An additional .82 of an inch came Friday with another .30 of an inch Saturday to bring the total to 3.11 at that time. Showers which came Tuesday and Wednesday of this week raised the amount for the month to 3.35 inches, Rasmussen's'tated. Two more big floods have come out of the Parowan Canyon, one on Sunday and another on Monday Mon-day afternoon of this week. Not as large as the first one, they were still raging torrents of water, and while little damage, was done in town the land owners in the fields southwest of town have had some crops damaged by the flood waters'. The mountains are well soaked up and the recent storms have reached all sections of the valley. |