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<br />RAIN STORM <br />MONTROSE <br /> <br />Downtown Montrose was <br />virtually turned into a <br />river Tuesday at 3:30 <br />p.m. when a heavy rain <br />and hail storm struck <br />without warning...water <br />was running down the <br />streets, overflowing <br />curbs and rushing down <br />the lower part of Main <br />Street. <br />South Townsend Avenue <br />looked like the Uncompah- <br />gre River for a time as <br />runoff water rushed down <br />the full length of the <br />street and then rushed <br />west down Main Street... <br />Catchbasins at the east <br />side of the intersection <br />of Main and Uncompahgre <br />were clogged with trash, <br />causing a lake to form <br />across the entire street <br />after the storm. <br /> <br />SLASHES <br />AREA <br /> <br />The Uncompahgre Valley <br />Water Users Association <br />reported precipitation as <br />1.06 inches. This appeared <br />to he the heaviest amount <br />of moisture in one day in <br />June for over 46 years... <br />The storm seemed to come <br />in from the west or south- <br />west and head east and <br />circle around to the north. <br />The Louts enhizer Canal <br />which runs in back of F1 at <br />Top had broken, and ,,'ater <br />carried about a foot of silt <br />over one 12 acre plot of <br />suga.r beets and ruined the <br />whole field. <br /> <br />6--21--67 <br /> <br />- 16 - <br />