Wet St. George

We left Denver on Sunday morning so we could get home in one day.  It is a 10 hour drive!  We were rained on off and on during the drive but it wasn't a big deal.  As we left Cedar City the emergency broadcast broke into the radio program we were listening to.  It said that there was a severe storm warning for Ivins, Snow Canyon and the areas in Western Washington County.  It said there would be quarter sized hail and to stay away from windows.  It also warned that there would be sky to ground lightening in the area so people were advised to stay indoors.

The clouds over St. George, that we could see, were really dark.  I sent a text to a neighbor to ask how bad the rain was and she said it was raining hard but no hail.  Bryan was sad to miss the storm at home.

It rained on us as we were getting close to St. George but it stopped before we got to town.  But we couldn't believe all the water we saw on the roads.  Snow Canyon Parkway was flooded and had standing water that was, who knows how deep.  We took another way home and as we drove down Pioneer Parkway a bunch of people were getting out of their cars at the bridge near the Entrada Golf Course.  As we drove by, I took this picture of the flooding that had happened at the course:

The water must have gone over the road some time in the weekend because there was mud all over the place.

I guess we missed a bunch of rain and crazy weather while we were gone.  Bryan looked at the info from his weather station and found that the temperature had dropped 10 or 20 degrees in an hour (I can't remember which).  Crazy!!