Comments about ‘Heavy storms set records, cause flooding in Salt Lake County; Grantsville man hospitalized after lightning strike’

We got smacked! Water came up through basement showers and floor drains, and by the time we discovered it all we could do was watch as it flooded bathrooms, bedrooms, storage room. Phooey! The disaster cleanup companies are helping hte economy today!

Don't warmer air masses carry more water?

so did taylorsville and around the vicinity..
in buckets the sky musy be crying buckets of salt=now its Hot with blue clear sky=gorgeous

Loved every drop.....

Not_Scared | 2:17 p.m. Aug. 19, 2010
Don't warmer air masses carry more water?
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It was not that warm - in fact below average. Guess it can rain a lot at any temperature.

I realize this is being unsympathetic, but buying or renting on a mountainside is tantamount to putting a gun to your head...

I agree with therev.

We've built so much that the hillsides cannot hold any more. When the rain comes, there's nothing to hold it back.

Sad situation for all who lost belongings. So glad there were no injuries.

But on to the important stuff: Who can we sue for this...

therev, you may have missed this, but it was everywhere that got dumped on and the flooding was also everywhere. Your note unsympathetic, you just wanted to seem smarter than anyone who lives off the valley floor.

"It was not that warm - in fact below average. Guess it can rain a lot at any temperature."

How do people in Utah made steam? You don't add energy? Why when your egg boils the water doesn't exceed the boiling point? As an warm air mass cools vaporous water is converted via latent heat exchange into liquid water. Latent heat exchange is the amount of energy used in phase transitions. You can have tremendous amounts of energy exchanged with no change in ambient temperatures.

Have you noticed that land form called mountains? As air flows over mountains it cools at the rate of 10 degrees per 1000 feet for dry air and 3 degrees for wet air. This causes enough cooling for water to form within clouds. As water forms it takes energy out of the air cooling the air.

Sure yesterday it was Utah and a few days before it was Tennessee. We have have many record for rain from thunderstorms this summer.

Russia had record heat and China and Pakistan floods but; this is weather and not climate. You can't say this is a lasting change.

We geographers love to speculate. We are the crazies that say don't build in flood plains and it might be a good idea not to place schools and hospitals on fault-lines.

The benches are made of alluvium: sediment that has carried by and deposited from running water. The soil was carried there by water rushing down canyons.

When I saw large homes where being build high on the benches; I wondered what fool in local government would issue a building permit to build there? Then, I wondered, how can you earn the money to build these home and be so stupid?

Be glad this is mere weather than will pass and not climate change. Many on benches may be moving as the alluvium that supports their homes sides down and to the west.

Dang, Not_Scared. Don't pull out big words like "latent." Too many syllables for many of the folks who read posts.

You missed the point from PP: It is cooler than normal in UT this season. That is true. Not sure what the meteorological lesson was for. Are you alluding to "global warming/climate change," or whatever it's called now?

I'm never living in Draper or St. George - wherever people are close to potential flooding areas. Or earthquake faults! There's an extra price for living in nice areas. Literally.