Do you remember this? 40 years ago yesterday, flood waters overtook Utah, damaging cities across the state and notably turning State Street in Salt Lake City into a river.
In 1983, the snowpack was at its near peak when sudden high temperatures caused a cascade of melting snow and water to flood many cities.Utahns who lived in the area at the time will never forget the destruction and massive amounts of water that flowed through the streets.
"Somebody thought, and good on them...you know, whether their intent was preservation or making a quick buck, they preserved literal water from the flood of '83," Burgess explained."Here we are 40 years later and you can hear this water and feel it sloshing around. Obviously, you don't want to drink it. It says 'contents hazardous, do not drink.' But it's something that makes it tangible.
FOX 13 News previously reported that aside from the large quantity of snow in 1983 that peaked late in the season, cold temperatures made it stick around for much longer than it typically would. Even if this year's snowpack was comparable,experts and city officials have said infrastructure has changed in the last 40 years to ensure that kind of destruction won't happen again.
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