I went through there some years ago. It’s still obvious where the new road detours up and over the slide area. It is massive.
Those poor folks in the campground were just gone.
“Those poor folks in the campground were just gone.”
That’s so sad. Mother nature can be a very cruel old girl. Here in Colorado it was the Big Thompson Flood that was huge news in the 1970s. I was just a kid then, but remember hearing about it a lot.
Big Thompson flood still Colorado’s worst
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_24134838/early-version-will-likely-grow
Excerpt from article:
Our leader decided we’d best get out of there. From what I saw the next morning, that was an excellent decision. Water later covered the road there, too. I spent the night at the Dam Store as the water rose. Helicopters were dispatched, but there was little that could be done. Our lights revealed picnic baskets, beach balls and propane bottles bobbing in the dark, roiling water that raced past us, but never any hands summoning help.
In the morning, we found those hands. The bodies were stripped of clothing and covered with mud. The first I saw was of a woman who we guessed was 18, not much younger than I was then. This thin margin between life and death was startling in my young eyes.
Eventually, 144 people were declared victims of the flooding that night (although one turned up alive in 2008 in Oklahoma).