| Show cloudburst visits peters spring area A cloudburst cloud burst played havoc over a five mile stretch of road I 1 sunday beginning above the top I 1 af petea 3 hill the st rm brol broke e out about 1245 p in and spent its fury over the Eun anding hillsides hill sides duling the tha next half hour driving ut up the fiill we saw dreams of water on both sides ades of the road in some places pouring bourin ver the banks in regular water calls that would have been pretty f the water had not been brown sit when we reached the he top of the two mile hill we found the highway floried in several 1 traces aces with drift causing obstruct ions picking our way am ng the be debris we drove hub deep through the raging water without any diff culty the land bordering the highway for the length of a mile kv was as completely under water prompt response on the part of seth wright and T E pearson of the highway maintenance service who hastened hasten cd to the flooded area to remove the debris which had settled on the highway prevented inconvenience and possible accident to passing motorists two canyons converge near the top of the hill which has caused similar flash floo ds in the past but this gully gally washer seems to have outclassed any such storm for many years back later we learned that a hailstorm had descended over this area are a around the noon hour which accounted for the huge cakes of it we saw coming swiftly downstream before we reached the hooded flooded section we saw the ground covered with hail but at the time we passed through only rain was pouring down on us |
