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Show Flooding still plagues LJDOT crews in county " Canyon avalanches continued to gue Utah Department of Tran-irtation Tran-irtation (U-DOT) crews and the itoring public Wednesday as rm temperatures and rain conned con-ned to attack winter's snow. J-DOT officials reported U-189 in dvo Canyon was opened Tuesday )ut 8 p.m. after being washed out lowing a slide at Bridal Veil Falls nday. 'he Provo River left it's banks er being clogged by the heavy iws. xcal traffic was allowed from the uth of Provo Canyon to Nunn's rk in the canyon Monday but was sesd above the park except to ergency vehicles. )an Moss, Orem, was traveling up canyon to Wasatch National Park when he said he looked up on the canyon side of the highway and it looked like giant clouds moving --like --like down drafts. "I have done a lot of private flying and I've never seen anything like this," he said. "Then we went around the curve and you could see it coming across the top." "It was in the channel so we felt we were safe unless it blocked the river. We took pictures of it - we are just looking at them now. I only wish we had had a video camera with us," Moss said. Moss said there was a car in front of theirs and two or three behind them but all were able to stop. He understood one person had a tripod and was taking pictures of the falls before the slide started, but he thought he was able to get out of the way., "This is one experience you don't plan to have," he laughed. "We got to see it all." Moss said it appeared some damage had been done to buildings at Bridal Veil Falls base site but he didn't know to what extent. Harry Opfar, district ranger on the Uinta National Forest, said as far as he knew no slides had come across the road in American Fork Canyon as of Wednesday morning. "They're there, though, and could come any time" he warned. U-DOT officials said there had been water coming across the highway in the Cedar Fort area "but we haven't had anything serious yet." |
