Snow and Floods

Well we have been so busy the last few weeks I really need to get caught up on my blog. Seems like the days just slip away. We spent the last few weeks in Colorado but finally made it home Tuesday the 21st. We left Colorado on the 20th but got snowed in in Richfield UT. It was awful. I was driving our Mustang with our youngest daughter Cheyenne and Cliff was in front of us in our pickup. It started snowing at the top of the summit right before Richfield and before we got from the top of the summit to the bottom, about 30 miles, it had snowed 2 feet. Cliff was in front and did fine but our poor little Mustang just could not get traction. I finally came to a complete stop on the freeway and was scared to death some one would plow into the back of us. I finally got going just a little and managed to get to the first exit in Richfield and got off the freeway and met Cliff at the Flying J truck stop. Then we couldn't get the car out of the parking lot so we just said no way and went and got a motel room.

The next morning we had to buy tire chains and Cliff drove the car and we finally got out of there. He ended up chaining up the car three times before we got to clear roads. Then it started to rain like none other. When we got to St George we traded vehicles and Cliff and Cheyenne went on home and I stayed in St George and went to two doctors appointments. I stopped and got a couple pizzas for dinner and started down the canyon. I didn't get far before I know there was trouble. The minute I saw the river I knew we were in for terrible floods. I have never seen it that high in all the years I have lived here. It was beautiful with all the waterfalls coming off the cliff's in the canyon , very primeval with all the fog etc.

Anyway when I got home sure enough the whole town us flooding. They had Red Cross stations, sand bagging stations, they managed to hold the worst of it back here but 6 houses were completely destroyed in Beaver Dam and about 71 flooded all together. Sad right before Christmas