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Show I Rainstorm Brings Light Floods to Parowan A June rainstorm which hit rather ra-ther suddenly and violently in Parowan last Friday, deposited .47 of an inch of rainfall at the weather station at the home of Clayton Rasmussen, located on the north side of the city; but it was much heavier in the east side of town, did some damage dam-age to streets of the city and deposited de-posited a coating of red clay on many lawns and gardens in the city. The heaviest rainfall reached to the red hills east of town and brought small rivers of the muddy mud-dy red water down through that section of town. A flash flood that came shortly after out of Dry Canyon, came into the field irrigation irri-gation ditches, and hit the west side of town, so that all sections of the city received some red mud and debris brought down by the quick rush of water. The lightening which accompanied accom-panied the storm hit one home and several other places on the east side of town and on the hills east of the city, the lightening bolts, burned out electrical appliances ap-pliances in a number of homes, disrupted power services to a few and also disrupted telephone service ser-vice in some parts of the city. Fires set by lightening on the east hills burned until late In i the evening. The day lcore, Thursday, a heavy storm coered the Parowan mountain area, reaching from Dry Lakes area to the Yankee reservoir, a;ij drove the MIA girls, holding their summer en-acmpment en-acmpment at the Yankee, home. Some mountain roads were damaged dam-aged by the floods which followed follow-ed the storms on those two days, but the benefits far outweighed any damage caused. |