Show weeks storm brins brings brin s i much needed moisture the series olF of storms which came to this section over mt last week end brought some much needed moisture to parts of parowan carowan valley and the surrounding mountains but was not general over the entire section water measurements taken at the weather station at gards sh showed 25 of an inch came in the showers of saturday and sunday with 62 of an inch in the downpour which came late monday afternoon thus thu letter latter stoc was accompanied cco p O by quite an electrical electric display with lightening lights min g striking t ki g and knocking out a transformer on the city cites rower power lines leaving the south part 0 if the city without power for it a short time tune it also brought flash floods out of the canyons ayom coming out of the hills south of town from our main canyon all the way out p past at the second mound no ilind with the water wa ter going over the highway in many places cedar city received a regular de that place received a good rain min but flooded end basemen basement in some sections of the city the atom storm was lighter in paragonah Para Parag gonah imah although flooded blooded streets and basements in a wide strip through the center of the valley was left practically dry with only showers in other parts the most remarkable th thing ta about it all was wall the lack of frost following the clear up on wednesday morning and following the wind the week before this has been a great gre t help in the harvest with the only frost coming coining this fall hitting the lowe 1 part of the valley on august most of the corn has been hal har vested without being frozen arosen and is now new in ill silos or ricks S A halterman reports that with a few weeks more foore of this kind of weather he and probably others jwj amsy te able b to crop of alfalfa with good growth already amilde made on well watered fields wit which ich were cut early it can be said that carowan parowan 1 valley I farmers have harvested a good corn and small gram crop have prospects for a fine potato crop on a large acreage but put up the shortest hay crop almost in hist history and prospects aren t bright for livestock on the winter range |