On May 29, 1983, over 5,000 Utahns helped fill and line State Street to 400 South with a wall of sandbags. More than 200,000 sandbags were used. A museum curator for the state of Utah found multiple artifacts from the historic event at a flea market.
SALT LAKE CITY — Monday marked the 40th anniversary of a significant event in Utah.to 400 South with a wall of sandbags. More than 200,000 sandbags were used for weeks.
"These items popped up in the bottom of a box, and the person says, 'Oh yeah, the floods of '83! I got those somewhere years and years ago, and those sat in a storage shed for years, and I'm just clearing stuff out. Here you go,'" he recalled. "I was looking and feeling and listening to water sloshing around that's like been on this earth a little bit longer than I have," Burgess said.
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