PROVO — Wednesday’s rainfall brought much-needed moisture to some parts of the Beehive State, but it also caused a mudslide that spilled onto Nevada Avenue and Slate Canyon Drive in Provo.

A thunderstorm on Wednesday night triggered the mudslide off what seems to be the Buckley Draw Fire burn scar in South Provo, KSL meteorologist Matt Johnson said in a social media post.

The slide nearly buried a car and began piling up on the side of a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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A Facebook post from the city of Provo said debris from the slide reached as far as State Street, where Utah Department of Transportation crews responded and eventually reopened the street.

“Debris flow channels we

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