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<br />showers later in the week. For the mounlains and Western
<br />Slope, he called for thunderstorms beginning Wednesday
<br />and contiouing through the weekend. . .'
<br />All this will contribute to what Henz termed a "moder-
<br />ate" flooding danger for the weekend. He said the critical
<br />flooding danger period probably will be the last week in
<br />May and the first week in June.
<br />I A river of debris-filled mud tumbled into East Layton,
<br />Ulah, about 25 miles north of,Salt Lake City, at about 6:30
<br />a,m, Monday.. No one was injured, but residents said they
<br />had only minutes to evacuate their expensive homes. '
<br />"1 just heard a roar and looked out my window,and saw
<br />this earth coming toward .us," said 003 Coleman. "I ran
<br />out the door and screamed for the people to get out." ,
<br />Another 150 residents of the town were evacuated as a
<br />precaution: A mudsllde Sunday in Clear Creek, Utah, 90
<br />I miles southeast of Salt Lake, killed a 71-year-old man as
<br />he tried to run from the fast-moving' muck. .-
<br />A half-dozen slides. bave been' reported in. Utah, and
<br />state meteorologist Bill Alder said the week's predicted
<br />balmy. temperatures threaten other communities with
<br />flooding and more mudslides; .
<br />The Tooele County Sheriff's. Department confinned
<br />what appeared to be the second fatality in Utah in two
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<br />In Colorado, a bandful of people were evacuated from " residents to rei on trock ' iI their wat . ~ume :searching for missing road worker Michael Lane
<br />lheir homes inSteamboan:;ptulgs 'for several hours Sun" . own' 0 ICla . onday.also asked"Go..., Rich:.rd n;. "38:Lane and a co-worker plUllged into the creek Saturda .
<br />day when an earthen dam began leaking, but they were .LaiI!lii..!2l: state ,!!elp W 1mllding a temporary OrI02e o.yer.. . when a wooden bridge collapsed. Lane's wallet was foundl
<br />able to return home after a few hours, But in Delta, four n.1< ~._I< ..h;rh run. tlU'ougn town dividing it roughly in' , Sunday, sheriff's Sgt. Mike Smith said. His companion wi'S
<br />families spent a fourth' day out of their homes Monday as half ',.... . '.: able.to swim to sbore. . '
<br />the Uncompaghre River spilled over its banks, Mudslides closed Colorado 139 over Douglas Pass and Longtime residents of Collbran, 35 miles east of Grand
<br />Tunnell said the Colorado River near Grand Junction ,Colorado 92 south of Maher. About a dozen car and train Junction" fear wbat will bappen in the next two weeIts
<br />?nd the Yampa I:liver near Steamboat Springs.were caus- bridges weie"c1osed by high water. And Colorado 13 unless the snowmelt is slowed by cooler weather.
<br />I mg the !host serIOUS problems: ' '. . ,:. .' between Cral& polo., and Wyoming was closed because of . . "Old-timers teU m~ the peak runoff oc:curs when Bald
<br />The rivers were 2 to 4 feet higher than on the same date .' flooding. Mountain starts getting bare spots," said Mesa County
<br />last year, said forecaster Steve Balint. YvooneMarie'Laudick, 24, of Fort Collins died Sunday Sheriff's Deputy Mike Smith. "Well, Bald Mountain still
<br />"The fact that the water level in the Colorado River is night whell ber!:M. !"~ buried under a !arg!' niudsli~e on " bas sev~r,al f~t of snow on it, and our ri,~ers are already I
<br />high just means that the mnoff is occurring sooner than Colorado U5, .IS mIles south of TellUride m San Miguel' full. .We re ~omg to have problems ~e~,e. '.
<br />last ear" Balint said. . ". County. ' , , .' With conl!"ned hot weather, he SlUd there will be some
<br />y, . - " Her 1971 Plymouth was swept 250 feet down an em- wet houses mCollbran," a town of 250.
<br />. In Oa Creek, abo miles south of Steamboat baokment and was buried under the mud' and debris Most of the problems were in Western' Slope towns,
<br />rin ma es dike so rotectlD loosetled by melting snow... ,although Palmer Lake near Colorado Springs on the Front
<br />I the ow-l ing own wn area. Floodwaters infiltrated e Authorities near Collbran in westccentral Colorado said. Range was having to boil water and bring in bottled water
<br />I town's wa er'sys em overe wend, forcing it's. . BlIzzard Creek was "too fast and too dangerous". to re- because of beavy snow runoff into its reservoir.
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