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A thunderstorm Sunday night established flooding for several residents throughout Salt Lake County.

The flooding happened according 3300 South while Mill Creek overflowed Sunday night,replica Oakleys, causing the storm drains to approach capacity. Power was also temporarily shut off to five homes in the zone.


In South Salt Lake, at fewest three families were damaged from flooding. Four dwellers in Murray likewise had overflow break to their homes.

"Due to the large storm that came via here,Discount Oakley Sunglasses, Mill Creek overflowed, said South Salt Lake Fire Deputy Chief Kevin Bowman. Just had a mini morsel of debris that had come down and blocked some and there was fair a colossal volume of water that ended up coming through this whole whole metropolis."

Salt Lake County Public Works Department says tempest drains were no clogged.

"It was not from the storm drain. Our storm drains were functioning. They are functioning today," said Ed Rufener with the Salt Lake County Public Works Department. "The water that was here was coming at such capacity that there was no direction our storm drains could deal what was coming down the avenues."

Officials were competent to pump most of the water out of the homes and not families were displaced.