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Samantha Hayes reporting Yes, we need the water. But as one Draper man will tell you, one place you certainly don't want water is in your house.
"I don't know what we are going to do," he says.
There's an old saying about cleaning your house before New Year's to start off on a clean slate. But you sure wouldn't want to do this kind of cleaning.
When there is this much flooding on the streets, you can bet that somewhere, water has made its way into homes.
Dave Hagen/ Homeowner: "Water just comes through every neighborhood above us, so we're getting all their water. Then the downstairs filled."
This year, Dave Hagen was going to move out of his old house and into a new one.
Dave Hagen/ Homeowner: "We were supposed to close on it in 20 to 30 days."
That would be this house, the one with the mud and water flooding the unfinished basement.
There's so much water, it saturated the backyard, seeped under the house, and the scaffolding fell down.
In Fielding, Utah, a woman took pictures of her neighborhood that now looks like a shallow lake. Water is lapping up against the mobile homes and has found its way inside, flooding a kitchen.
