Hanksville residents cleaning up after storm

After a record day of rain, Hanksville residents came together Saturday to slowly start cleaning up the mess.

Friday's storms dumped 4 inches of rain in the Wayne County town. The high waters eroded portions of U-24, which remain closed.

A school bus carrying 20 middle and high school students was trapped on that highway Friday after high waters made it impossible to continue driving.

waters in the Fremont River rose so high they spilled over the local dam. Farmers rely on water from the dam to irrigate crops. And a mobile home in Blue Valley was washed off its foundation and its occupants were rescued by hovercraft, said Alicia Gleave, with the Richfield Communications Center.

She said the home was surrounded by 3 to 5 feet of water and rescuers had to traverse nearly 150 yards to reach the two men stranded inside.

Town and county leaders are trying to figure out how to ask the state, or possibly the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for help.