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Photos: Colorado Flood damage aerial views
fort morgan times ^ | Sep 14, 2013

Posted on 09/14/2013 5:01:50 PM PDT by george76

Aerial photos of the flood damage caused by heavy rains along Colorado’s Front Range.

A 60-year-old Cedar Cove woman was believed to be the fifth person killed in this week’s historic flooding as authorities scrambled Saturday to reach the 230 people listed as unaccounted for in northern Colorado.

Meanwhile, evacuation orders spread throughout the day to communities downstream as rivers continued to flow above flood stage.

(Excerpt) Read more at photos.fortmorgantimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; US: Kansas; US: Nebraska; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: colorado; coloradoflood; coloradoflooding; flood; katrina; nofema; obamaskatrina; obamassandy; weather
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To: LucyT

The 3 drivers involved in that all lived. The guy in the upside down car found a pocket of air. It was quite awhile before he was rescued. An article (I can try to find it) quotes him as saying he sang to God and prayed. Rescuers called it a miracle he survived.


61 posted on 09/15/2013 6:17:38 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Yeap, The one in a hundred has to do with statistics. Tulsa hit the odds closely. Tulsa flooding would be like Boulder flooding.

In this case, every drainage basin from Denver to Fort Collins flooded.


62 posted on 09/15/2013 6:19:44 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: MtnClimber

I am wondering if I can rent a helicopter just to get through my normally 20 minute commute. 119 into LM is gone in a few places, so the pressure on Hwy 66 is going to be overwhelming. Then only 2 streets over St. Vrain... maybe 3, will have to see.


63 posted on 09/15/2013 6:22:55 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: JMJJR

I heard they would be doing evacuations 24 x 7. They are using night vision.


64 posted on 09/15/2013 6:28:20 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: george76

bttt


65 posted on 09/15/2013 6:34:01 AM PDT by Rightly Biased (Avenge me Girls AVENEGE ME!!!! ( I don't have any son's))
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To: george76

I seem to be in asmall corridor where the rain hasn’t been too bad, but the sump pump is working overtime. Ground is saturated


66 posted on 09/15/2013 7:01:47 AM PDT by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: george76
Longmont Downtown to East - Aerial Footage 9/13/13
67 posted on 09/15/2013 7:24:40 AM PDT by kanawa
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To: LucyT

Wow! What if that were a gas line (is it?) and it ruptured?


68 posted on 09/15/2013 7:53:22 AM PDT by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: george76

On a side note, the gold prospecting should be great! Good luck to you Coloradans.


69 posted on 09/15/2013 8:20:04 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Tastes like Heaven, Burns like Hell! Mmmmmm. What is it?)
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To: JMJJR

Raining 1”/hr again in downtown Boulder, again.

I’ve got the sump pumps running out to the street, if I pump it to the yard, anywhere, it just adds back to the flow and I get to pump it out again.

The ground water is literally flowing under my house, I have streams coming in from 3 direction, now add the surface water back in. I’m keeping up.


70 posted on 09/15/2013 9:01:54 AM PDT by JMJJR ( Newspeak is the official language of Oceania)
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To: JMJJR
Whoa! Good luck, I will be thinking of you as the week progresses. Keep safe.
71 posted on 09/15/2013 9:06:46 AM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: SW6906

It is a gas line(there’s a sub station right up that hill), they have to move the new crews back because they were afraid of it blowing.


72 posted on 09/15/2013 9:19:34 AM PDT by standub
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To: ZOOKER

Or a dry creek bed, or the beach in Florida.


73 posted on 09/15/2013 9:26:12 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: ican'tbelieveit; JMJJR

A friend in Lyons says he isn’t leaving his house even though he is without electricity or water.


74 posted on 09/15/2013 10:15:10 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: JMJJR

1.5” of rain since 9:30, looks like another exiting day.


75 posted on 09/15/2013 11:23:33 AM PDT by JMJJR ( Newspeak is the official language of Oceania)
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To: JMJJR

I know. I didn’t go to church today because it is south of town (Longmont) and I was afraid I’d be cut off from coming back home.


76 posted on 09/15/2013 12:18:12 PM PDT by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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77 posted on 09/15/2013 2:37:06 PM PDT by LucyT
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78 posted on 09/15/2013 2:39:02 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: MinuteGal

“Has Obomba declared this a disaster area yet?”

Yes, a couple of days ago.


79 posted on 09/15/2013 3:22:23 PM PDT by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: JMJJR

I have had nearly 3” of rain today. Craziness.


80 posted on 09/15/2013 3:25:11 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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