http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=6593300
Flooding strands campers in southeastern Utah
May 24th, 2009 @ 5:40pm
By John Hollenhorst
SOUTHEASTERN UTAH -- It's been a wild weekend of high water and dramatic rescues in southeastern Utah, and it isn't over yet. Dozens of people are cut off, stuck where they've been since Friday.
There has been localized flooding in several locations in south eastern Utah, and there are worries that more flooding could complicate efforts to get dozens of people out of Gray's Canyon, on the Green River. About 100 people have been trapped there since Friday, after the only road out of the canyon washed out.
A crew is working to restore that road. Numerous camping parties and dozens of vehicles are currently cut off.
No one has been hurt, that we know of, but a horse was washed away and presumably lost.
Several other families, meanwhile, had a close brush with death, but their own quick thinking and a helicopter rescue saved them from a flash flood.
About 50 miles to the southeast a sudden downpour over the LaSalle mountains triggered flash flooding. It deposited boulders on the main highway between Moab and Monticello and then roared through some back country along Kane Springs Creek.
Several families had been crossing the creek in Jeeps at the time. One vehicle stalled. The family heard a loud roaring noise, which they realized was a flash flood. They scrambled up a slope and watched as a six or seven foot high wall of water slammed into their Jeeps.
Later, a Utah Highway Patrol helicopter made a dramatic rescue, plucking the people out four or five at a time.
Chopper 5 is returning from the scene with videos and interviews from people affected. We'll have that for you tonight at 10:00.
Anyone's family?
Flooding strands campers in southeastern Utah
May 24th, 2009 @ 5:40pm
By John Hollenhorst
SOUTHEASTERN UTAH -- It's been a wild weekend of high water and dramatic rescues in southeastern Utah, and it isn't over yet. Dozens of people are cut off, stuck where they've been since Friday.
There has been localized flooding in several locations in south eastern Utah, and there are worries that more flooding could complicate efforts to get dozens of people out of Gray's Canyon, on the Green River. About 100 people have been trapped there since Friday, after the only road out of the canyon washed out.
A crew is working to restore that road. Numerous camping parties and dozens of vehicles are currently cut off.
No one has been hurt, that we know of, but a horse was washed away and presumably lost.
Several other families, meanwhile, had a close brush with death, but their own quick thinking and a helicopter rescue saved them from a flash flood.
About 50 miles to the southeast a sudden downpour over the LaSalle mountains triggered flash flooding. It deposited boulders on the main highway between Moab and Monticello and then roared through some back country along Kane Springs Creek.
Several families had been crossing the creek in Jeeps at the time. One vehicle stalled. The family heard a loud roaring noise, which they realized was a flash flood. They scrambled up a slope and watched as a six or seven foot high wall of water slammed into their Jeeps.
Later, a Utah Highway Patrol helicopter made a dramatic rescue, plucking the people out four or five at a time.
Chopper 5 is returning from the scene with videos and interviews from people affected. We'll have that for you tonight at 10:00.
Anyone's family?
