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Draper residents can breathe a sigh of relief because expected mudslides never came.
Homeowners living below the burn line of the Corner Canyon fire that charred the mountainside last month were put on high alert as last night's storm bore down. They received reverse 911 calls last night, alerting them of a possible evacuation order, this just a week after the threat of a wildfire drove them from their homes.
The National Weather Service also issued a flash flood warning for debris flow in those neighborhoods. That warning expired around midnight and the floods never came.
Draper City is prepared, though, to evacuate about 100 homes if it starts to rain and the hill starts to slide.
Earlier last week, the city gave residents about 15,000 sandbags to help protect their homes from this storm.
Draper City Manager Lane Long said, "Well, we're watching it very close. If we get any indication that water is moving down the canyons or mud is starting to move, we'll do a mandatory evacuation at that point. Things are all in place to do that, but we're not issuing that at this point."
Rocky Mountain Power crews scrambled to restore electricity to more than 26,000 homes and businesses after high winds snapped trees and downed power lines. At one point, more than 11,000 homes in both the Ogden and Salt Lake areas were without power, and the lights were not expected to come on in some homes until sometime this morning.
If we continue to see more rainfall this morning and those Draper residents need help, they can reach the Draper Emergency Operations Center by calling 576-6500.
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