Erica Harrell
Producer

According to Danny and Eric, it had not rained much in Kanab since they had arrived here at the beginning of July…. Well not the case as soon as I arrived. The first 5 days I was here it sprinkled a little in the afternoons, nothing horrible and no thunder to interfere with our sound. Well last Wednesday was a different story…. A torrential rain hit Kanab as we were wrapping. We rushed and secured all of our gear and got back to the Parry Lodge. The streets quickly became covered in tons of red mud and our thoughts immediately turned to what our site was like down in Paria. We had planned to disassemble our structure that was built in a warehouse and take it to Paria on Thursday. Well Thursday morning, Josh, our amazing builder and Erin our art director took a drive down to Paria in Josh’s Jeep and part of the road had washed out!
Josh made it almost all the way down to our build site but got completely stuck about a 100 yards from where we needed a U-haul to go in order to bring down our building materials. Eric and I then had to figure out who we could call that would be able to fix the road in order for us to not be delayed. We were able to get Burt from the Kane County to go down and drag the road out, but this did not happen until Thursday afternoon, which delayed our building being brought down there.

Also the road was not able to be cleared enough for our crew to shoot some of the exterior scenes with Jake that we had planned but we still went out to shoot one evening scene.

It is apparently really rare for Flash Floods to happen like that down in Paria. After Danny and I were able to access the area we wanted to build in, we decided to go ahead with the build and hope that a rain of that nature does not happen again until after we are done shooting.

So far the build is looking great! By Tomorrow it will be complete!!!!!!