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Utah began drying out — a little — Sunday from a storm that began Friday night and dropped more than 2 inches of rain on much of the state.

"The exceptional thing about this system is how widespread those 1- and 2-inch rainfall totals were. ... We had a lot of areas with 1 and 2 inches," National Weather Service meteorologist Monica Traphagan said Sunday.

"It looks like we've got a wide variety of locations that broke the rainfall total for the day, Salt Lake airport among them," she added.

The airport received 1.25 inches of rain Saturday, smashing the old record of 0.84 inches set in 1982, Traphagan said.

Carbon County was hit hard, with at least 24 homes severely damaged and dozens of others affected by flooding, according to a Carbon County news release. Carbon County and Wellington city have both declared a state of emergency, according to the release, and the Red Cross set up a shelter at the Price fairgrounds for any affected residents.

Over in Garfield County, the bridge over the Paria River in the Kodachrome Basin State Park washed out Saturday night, sending a vehicle with two people inside into the river, according to the Garfield County Sheriff's Office. The couple climbed out and on top of the vehicle, where a Garfield County search and rescue team reached them in a boat. The couple are expected to be fine, according to the sheriff's office.

The bridge and the park, however, remain closed, due to the washout, according to Utah State Parks.

State Route 29 remained closed at mile post 13 on Sunday, as did State Route 31 near Huntington Canyon, according to the Utah Department of Transportation. The department expected both closures to last until Tuesday afternoon.

Traphagan said the cold front behind the storm — a slow-moving Pacific storm system — is going to impact Utah through Monday. "But what we saw yesterday is the heaviest we'll see," Traphagan said.

She said some rainfall totals from the Friday-night start of the storm through 9 a.m. Sunday were:

• Badger Spring (near Ivins) 2.71 inches

• Near Tabiona (where some flooding occurred) 2.7 inches

• Aspen Mountain (Uintas) 2.58 inches

• Garden City 2.5 inches

Some snow fell in higher elevations, but not in measurable amounts, she said.

Traphagan said after the current unstable air mass moves out of Utah on Monday, another one on its heels will impact the state Tuesday night into Wednesday. "Thursday into the weekend, we'll finally dry out," she said.

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Heavy rain

Monica Traphagan, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said some rainfall totals from the Friday-night start of the storm through 9 a.m. Sunday were:

Badger Spring (near Ivins) 2.71 inches

Near Tabiona (where some flooding occurred) 2.7 inches

• Aspen Mountain (Uintas) 2.58 inches

Garden City 2.5 inches