MUDDY MOAB. After a 'hundred year flood' hits the popular tourist destination, it will cost millions of dollars and take several years to get things back to normal.
MOAB, Utah — In what is being called a"hundred-year flood," businesses, homeowners and others in Moab are picking up the pieces.
She said she could barely sleep that night as flooding continued to ravage homes and businesses across town.While the streets were cleared quickly, some of the infrastructure might take years to rebuild. And with everything totaled, the city is facing an astronomical amount of damage. “We've got to assess everything once we cut into the wall, find out what that damage is. We can get it back together pretty quickly,” Miller said. “It just depends if we have mold issues and we have to take all the drywall out... It could go from two weeks to eight weeks really quick.”
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