Southern Utah’s snowpack is even larger than the north’s. And memories of catastrophic floods are more recent.

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(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Destroyed homes along the Santa Clara River in St. George after flooding in January 2005.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Destroyed homes along the Santa Clara River in St. George after flooding in January 2005.

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