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Severe Flooding in Colorado

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    • This is a tragedy - it's been raining non-stop in Colorado for days now. Places that usually get under 20 inches of rain per year have gotten 8+ inches since Monday.

    There are reports of 30 foot walls of water from the USGS that are coming down some of the canyons near and to the north of the Boulder area with flooding spread out throughout the Boulder and Denver areas.

    http://www.denverpost.com/breakingn...y-flood-emergency-1-killed-streets-impassable

    I know NFBuck has family in Colorado and I am pretty sure there are a few other members in the Denver/Boulder area. I hope everyone is safe and gets to higher ground if needed.
     
    Same here.(New Mexico) Burn scar areas(forest fires) are very dangerous right now. And this part of the world isn't used to getting this much rain. Dry stream beds become flash flood traps. And small creeks over flow their banks.
    Good news of sort is that the entire southwest has been in a 3 year drought and this could help things a bit but much of it just runs off before the saturated ground can absorb it.
    Normally the mighty Rio Grande is not so "mighty'(see "No Country For Old Men") right now it's raging and swift.
    Stay safe NF and FC!
     
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    The wife and kid are good. Raining a good amount, but we don't live in a low lying area. Colorado is just getting royally smited...from severe drought and wild fires, now a summer of torrential rains. Ugh.

    There's been so much rain, the third tier of my backyard collapsed the retaining wall earlier this summer, so that's gonna have to be fixed. But, thankfully, that's pretty much the extent of our damage.
     
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    I had a little water in the cellar, but not more than a puddle. Schools closed in FoCo today due to bridge closures snarling traffic.

    A few towns are really getting hammered, namely Lyons and Boulder. Also, I suspect many small mountain towns within various canyons are being/have been devestated but lack of access thus far has limited reporting.
     
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    No issues in Westminster and Denver. A friend of mine lives in Longmont between the St Vrain and Big Thompson Rivers. He made it into Denver this morning, but now he can't get home. Parts of Boulder got 11 to 12 inches of rain in a day and a half. Average annual precip is 14 inches.
     
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    My brother in Fort Collins is trying to get up to Wyoming to do some fly fishing, but most roads are blocked off. He mentioned 25 was one of them. And he said Boulder was "fucked". First beetles, then fires, and now floods. What the hell did you do Colorado?
     
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