All of the other businesses at the shopping mall remained open. About 30 rooms at the Cable Mountain Lodge took damage and will need to be cleaned over the next few weeks. Nate Wells, general manager for Zion Canyon Village, said roughly 70 percent of the property’s exterior was covered in about 6 to 10 inches of mud. “Everything happened so fast, and next thing you know it was all covered in mud.” “This hotel is so elegant, but it seemed like a jungle with water, mud and branches coming inside it,” Martha Lopez recalled, in Spanish. She said the rain washed mud across the highway and into the shopping mall’s many businesses. Martha Lopez, the wife of Julio and a maid at Cable Mountain Lodge in Springdale, was working Tuesday afternoon when flooding began. Just outside the park entrance, at Zion Canyon Village, damage from the flash flood was evident as workers spent the day shoveling mud and towing out cars from the shopping mall parking lot. The rescue was paused during the storm but was completed once the area was safe, she said. “The good news everyone is safe and no lives were lost, and that’s really important,” Rowland said.Īn “active technical search and rescue operation” occurred in the park on Tuesday afternoon, but it started before the storm, Rowland said.
She could also not yet estimate damage costs but said there were no injuries.
Rowland said officials were assessing the damage and could not provide a time frame for the parking lot or trail’s reopening. “There was a pretty significant mudslide here, a lot of debris moving very quickly into one area, so we’re working to get that debris out,” Rowland said. She said that many vehicles were stuck in this parking lot on Tuesday, which led to park officials “undoing the fence to get them out.” Visitors who would have used the parking lot should instead plan to park on Lion Boulevard in Springdale. The park’s oversize parking lot, where most recreational and larger vehicles park, will be closed until further notice, park spokeswoman Amanda Rowland said. Park entrances were limited to one lane of traffic. Shuttle buses were running in the park but were temporarily suspended in Springdale, Utah. 22QfNMClrJīy Wednesday morning, the park had reopened, but visitors dealt with delays as park officials continued to clean up debris on the roads and assess damage. Huge cleanup effort in a day after flash floods. The park was closed to inbound traffic on Tuesday after a mudslide caused by “a little over an inch of rain in an hour” forced officials to close the south and east entrances to the park on state Route 9.
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“It’s completely wet inside, and the motor is full of mud.”Ī day after a flash flood hit Zion and the surrounding areas, Lopez and many others were dealing with the resulting destruction. George, Utah, said Wednesday just outside of Zion National Park. ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah - As Julio Lopez waded through nearly knee-deep mud and opened the hood of his 2013 Buick sedan, he realized the damage was even worse than he initially thought. Zion National Park is under modified operations on Wednesday as park officials clean up from a flash flood.
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