SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - One of several hikers who formed a human chain across a river swollen with flash flood waters in the Utah desert said ... sunny day at Utah's red-rock Zion National Park ...

Residents called it the worst flood in memory for the sister towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, which are 315 miles south of Salt Lake City at the foot of picturesque red rock cliffs.