| Show About Those East Winds By ROBERT ALVIN MOSS A new resident in Bountiful I once asked the j.- didn't someone tell me hi about the east winds A w heavy east wind at the time may have done some damage f to her home or other In order to inform others who f might want more I informed the resident p and other Clipper readers p about the big wind of M IT WAS considered by the iW old residents of that the hardest wind they had p Much damage s-g was done all over the V Since that not a great deal of damage has h been done by When 0 building a ft is best to be prepared for a possible heavy east wind in this t In my diary I have a record of some minor floods that p have rushed down Barton A Mill Creek and Stone Centerville experienced a damaging flood in more recent In as much as the Moss property was mostly located between Stone Creek and Barton f I will confine this report to Barton THE LARGEST flood of ij which I have record was j around the turn of the cen- J There had been some 1 heavy snow storms all The mountains were t unusually No one knew j j what the depth of the snow would be along the summit and In the many hollows in the canyon that could check and hold the From down home when the wind blew north or south we could see the snow drifting along the tops of the mountains like the fine sands of the Sahara AT THIS certain spring was approaching and warm winds and rain could be Following such a floods of some degree would surely On one certain evening dark clouds gathered along the mountain It looked like an cast wind cloud at but it soon covered more of the At a safe distance one-half a mile from the we went on with our usual farm chores unmindful of how much the south wind and rain had and how much the creek had Our home was about a mile from the mouth of the but the canyon was still quite deep for about another half mile before spreading out on the flat WITH THE chores done and the canyon noise growing my brother and I decided to Because it was we took the barn As we neared the path leading down into the a heavy rain began to The rain and the unusual sound of the rushing water below caused us to postpone our investigation and satisfy our curiosity the next The roaring sound went on all George and I didn't sleep very so in the early morning we approached the creek cautiously and what we had Large Cottonwood trees had been uprooted and some had fallen into the creek along with much other debris which created When pressure caused the ponds to extra water would rush on to create more This much larger stream would move uge boulders from one side of the creek to the and roll some small ones down the A FEW bridges were washed out or Many irrigation ditches that spread over the valley like limbs from a were Parts of small mud and other debris were washed into around and on down the channel to the swamps and the A study of the former courses of these creeks and can tell what floods have done in centuries Near the mouth of Barton large boulders have been found in a sand pit quite some distance from the present EXPERTS HAVE cautioned builders to provide protection to property that could be damaged by flash Some canyons along the stretch between Salt Lake City and Brigham are and flood damage can be greater at these The caution of experts is passed on here so that someone won't didn't someone tell as they did in the case of the |
