A downpour in Salt Lake City on July 22, 2021.
SALT LAKE CITY Some Mapleton residents were evacuated Thursday after rain hit the Ether Hollow burn scar, causing flooding, amid flood and thunderstorm warnings for areas across Utah.
The affected residents were evacuated to a predetermined evacuation site, according to Mapleton police. As of 9:15 p.m., around 6 inches of mud had accumulated on a city roadway near Bartholomew Park and no injuries or damage has been reported. Residents in this area have been preparing for this event for months, the department said on Facebook.
Residents in Mapleton were evacuated due to flooding on July 22, 2021. (Photo: Mapleton Police Department)
Mapleton residents evacuated after flooding as multiple thunderstorm, flash flood warnings issued across Utah
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Evacuations lifted for Mapleton residents after flooding from thunderstorm
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Writers on the Range: As Lake Powell dwindles, wonders open up
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On May 9, protected by neoprene, I bobbed around in a flooded canyon in Utahâs Lake Powell. The reservoir had fallen below 35 percent full, which gave me the unique opportunity to free-dive through an underwater bridge that was now suddenly within reach.
I eyed the 100 feet of sheer sandstone rising out of the water. For much of the past half-century, boats that entered upper Fiftymile Canyon in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area could blithely float over Gregory Natural Bridge with about 40 feet of clearance.
Not anymore. Two decades of drought had diminished the lake, and motorized river traffic could no longer float overtop.