Leaders in small Utah town looking for ways to prevent future flooding as cleanup continues

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Community leaders looking for ways to prevent future flooding as cleanup continues in small town of Helper, Utah

“They’re unpredictable," said Chief Matt Montoya with the Helper Fire Department."You’re at the mercy of Mother Nature. You don’t know what’s going to happen, how bad it’s going to be."

“The area behind me was full of water,” said Tom King, head golf professional at the course. “It was raging through here. The bridge behind us was almost touching the water.” “It’s pretty sloppy right now, so we need to get it to dry so we need to start pushing it with backhoes,” he said. “The debris that’s left behind and lack of vegetation, when you get a big thunderstorm like that, it makes a huge flow,” Carbon County Sheriff Jeff Wood said.The weather also caused rock slides on U.S. Highway 6. The Helper Fire Department responded to the scene where two boulders smashed through the windshield of a vehicle, hitting a couple inside. The two were rushed to Castleview Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

 

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