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Alex Cabrero Reporting Logan has decided to prevent flooding before it happens. Residents are sandbagging a river that last year flooded several homes. They're very concerned, mainly because there is a lot more snow in the mountains this year than last year.
Already the Blacksmith Fork River that runs through Logan is higher than it was at this point just a year ago, and that makes quite a few people nervous.
Cheray Crockett: "The river is exactly why I chose it."
Many people would love to have the backyard Cheray Crockett has.
Cheray Crockett: "When I was looking for a home, it was between this one and another house, and the river was the determining factor."
But now the river just might make her look elsewhere.
Cheray Crockett: "The biggest concern is just not being able to contain it."
Which is why so many workers came to Logan's Country Manor subdivision. They wanted to control the Blacksmith Fork River before it controlled them. One-by-one, city workers and volunteers made sandbags, then passed them down a make-shift assembly line, hoping to stack the bags higher than the river could ever get.
Most of the people working hard don't even live there, like Mistie Park.
Mistie Park: "Yeah, I don't live here, but if my house was flooded and other people came to help, it's great. It's awesome."
The way the river looks now, it's hard to imagine it'd get up and over the bank and sandbags, but Crockett says, you'd be surprised.
Cheray Crockett: "Probably about here, maybe here."
She has last year's water level marked. With all the snow still in the mountains, she's heard it could get worse.
Cheray Crockett: "This is their projected; this is where they think it'll get to this year."
Eric Fielden: "More water than you can shake a stick at."
But with so many people working together this early, maybe a stick won't be needed next year.
Cheray Crockett: "Everybody's going to come out and try to stop it from happening again."
Logan has plans to sandbag other parts of their city later this week and next week because they think this year is going to be a bad flood year.
