Family is counting its blessings after it avoided a serious disaster during a rockfall near Cedar City.
“It just rained boulders. We just came around a bend and it started raining boulders,” said Jordan Armga, who was in a vehicle with her three children and husband. “Our toddler was sitting behind the driver in her car seat and the biggest rock hit right on her door; took out her door handle, but another 4-to-6 inches and it would have went through her window.”
The Armga’s were heading back towards Cedar City after spending part of the day checking out fall foliage. The other vehicle involved was driving the opposite direction and ended up colliding with a boulder head-on. “People got out of their cars. People just rushed out of their cars to move rocks," explained Jordan."There was guy pulling a mini-excavator down the mountain and he pulled that off his trailer and moved the boulders out of the road before law enforcement showed up.While none of the seven people involved sustained notable injuries, both vehicles were badly damaged.
According to the Utah Geological Survey, published reports of landslides and rockfall activity have been coming in since 1949. Oddly enough, the incident this past weekend occurred on Oct. 8, exactly 11 years from the date of a massive landslide that wiped out the same stretch of road.
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