July 23, 2010

Relate a memory involving a flood or cloudburst.

I don't remember any specific floods or cloudbursts but I do remember the effects of one rather large rain storm. In indian canyon the hills rise rapidly from the road to the top of the mountain. When rain would come it would often come down rather rapidly since it ran off the rocks instead of sinking into the ground. It seldom did any damage but one specific one was so big that it washed out the dirt road going up indian canyon to Price in several places. I remember riding up with Uncle Mont to the ranch and seeing where the water had come down with such power that it had flooded the road in numerous places and washed it out in several others. We had a hard time getting to the ranch. It hadn't done any damage to the ranch houses but had washed through some of the fields leaving a lot of debris scattered through the fields. It was quite a while before all of the road had been repaired.