FARMINGTON -- Saturday's mudslide here, "can't even compare" to the 1983 mudslides, according to one resident, but they served as another reminder of what happens when there is no vegetation to hold soil in place.
A downpour Saturday night caused a mudslide in an area of 500 North and 200 East -- the same area devastated by mud during the floods of 1983.
"I had a little bit of mud come down my driveway," said Renee Jones who was among those shoveling mud and sandbagging to protect their property from damage Saturday night.
Farmington Police reported that one house had minor damage from the mudslide and that one home was evacuated.Otherwise, the mud moved into driveways and yards along about six streets
"This can't even compare to the mudslides of 1983," Jones said. She hadn't been up the street Monday morning to see if clean-up was complete. Jones said that this time around no one felt threatened and no one panicked. "It was a small mudslide, that came down a little bit at a time," she said.
City crews were called out with backhoes to move mud, and neighbors joined in with shovels and buckets to stop the flow of mud. Reports were that mud was knee-deep in some roadways, but the danger and destruction which wreak-ed havoc on the area more than two decades ago was absent.
The mudslides were caused by the lack of vegetation, from last summer's wildfire. Jones seemed pretty philosophical about the whole event, saying that it seems Farmington experiences these kinds of things every so often. Since living in Farmington, her family has experienced two fires and a couple of mudslides.
Meanwhile, a neighborhood in Syracuse also experienced some flooding. The area, near Antelope Drive at about 1400 West, is one where water overflows frequently.
The area, is not the same as that flooded last month, but is a low-lying one. On Saturday, at least two yards were flooded.