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Show Parowan Valley dry spell ended by week end storms Clayton Rasmussen, Parowan Paro-wan weather station caretaker tells us that the two-month long drouth in our city was broken in a rather fine way, on Friday afternoon, when a total of .55 of an inch of water wa-ter came in a storm which covered much of the valley. In fact it was reported heav-vier heav-vier in the farming districts. Then on Sunday, an additional addi-tional .10 of an inch came in a low velocity storm that lasted for an hour or so. This brings the August moisture to .65 of an inch, and has been very beneficial to crops and lawns. This was the first measure-able measure-able moisture to come to Parowan Par-owan Valley since early June. It also brought the first muddy mud-dy water down the Parowan Paro-wan creek this season. Some flood waters joining together in Parowan Main Canyon to hit the power pipeline intake at the four mile and fill the mouth of the pipe with debris and damage the control works to a certain extent. This cut off the Parowan plant and with another failure fail-ure in the Calif.-Pacific lines from Cedar City, the city was without power for almost two hours until service could be resumed. Also the small floods gathering in the canyon can-yon from the side ravines, kept several pieces of State highway equipment busy from the S Turn down to the for-bay for-bay until after 9 p. m. |