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Colorado flooding

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AMCRambler said:
It does'nt look that bad in the video. Are the waters down from their crest there?

In NY we got about that much flooding during Irene. The creeks and streams washed out roads and bridges deposited huge heaps of mud on side roads adjacent to them. In some places houses were undermined and fell into the waterways.
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It's pretty bad around Boulder canyon. More rain today isn't going to help.
 
That looks like an extensive washout but it also appears to be in the middle of nowhere. Not trying to downplay what they've experiencing but we had water like that running down the main streets of our towns.

Here's Catskill, NY
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gorcorps said:
Partly that, partly Boulder is filled with filthy hippies. Just like in New Orleans, sometimes people are forced to take a much needed bath...
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Actully, it's the rich fvcks with mountain homes that are screwed.
A lot have been stranded for days without gas or electricity.
Some areas still have no way in or out.
They are having to become communal to survive.
The rural farmers on the plains that didn't vote for legal weed are getting flooded out now. God's punishment.
The hippies are just toking up watching the river flow.
 
AMCRambler said:
That looks like an extensive washout but it also appears to be in the middle of nowhere. Not trying to downplay what they've experiencing but we had water lime that running down the main streets of our towns.

Here's Catskill, NY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_wNkPYGiRo
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Right it isn't the center of town but it is only three miles from Greeley, Co.
The devastation In Lyons, Boulder, Evans, Lasalle, Loveland, Fort Collins, Estes Park, Johnstown, Miliken, basically most of the cities along the front range look like the link you posted. And it's still raining. I hope the people down river in CO and other states are prepared.
 
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This is as bad as the flood in '76. Yesterday I seen a ton of helicopters fly over. Everything from chinooks to blackhawks. I'm an acvid radio scanner hobyist and have the frequencies programed for air to air communications, etc.

There is some flooded out places in Loveland. 1st and Taft and the Dam store going up to Estes Park.

More rain today and my dad said we were going to get 9-12 inches. 😱
 
i am in austraila working, but live in boulder, on mapelton hill thank god. we jsut have a wet basement. the flood waters got all the way up to pearl from boulder creek. the canyon roads all pretty much gone, no way to get to the mountians. 4 mile cayon is completly wiped out. no road, no houses left. I'm sure glad i did not buy in the canon like i was thinking i would.
 
5to1baby1in5 said:
Actully, it's the rich fvcks with mountain homes that are screwed.
A lot have been stranded for days without gas or electricity.
Some areas still have no way in or out.
They are having to become communal to survive.
The rural farmers on the plains that didn't vote for legal weed are getting flooded out now. God's punishment.
The hippies are just toking up watching the river flow.
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Some of us that have mountain homes at not rich fucks. :colbert: Homes can run from 300K ->30M
Also, we plan and have backup generators and 50+ galls of fuel to run them conservatively.
Many have freezers with 2 or more weeks of food.
Advance planning starts in Sept in prep for early snows.
 
The numbers coming in from the past week's flooding across Colorado are staggering:

- 200 miles of affected area, including 15 counties
- 17,494 homes damaged, 1,502 destroyed
- 5 people confirmed dead, 1,253 reported missing
- 11,700 people evacuated
- 1,872 people staying in shelters

And these stats don't include damage to crucial infrastructure such as roadways, rail lines, and utilities such as gas/electric/water/sewer.

For more stats, click the link for the Colorado Office of Emergency Management: http://www.coemergency.com/
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stats I saw earlier today
 
Xcel (Electric/Gas) is projecting over a week before they can even have an accurate count.

Some structures are underwater so they can not even evaluate the damage
 
boulder county says 100 miles of road are damaged, 35 bridges and 100 minor structures. not including homes/businesses.
Approximately 1500 Boulder County residents have been evacuated by military assets. 950 by Helicopter and 550 by Military Vehicle.
 
Because of the recent drought people have been praying and praying for rain in Colorado and now they've got some.
 
Slight bump ahead:

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/coloradofloods2013/bp8.jpg

Used to do this as a kid when I lived in Florida and it flooded during hurricane season every year:

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/coloradofloods2013/bp14.jpg

That evil sludge monsters from Ferngully is making a comeback:

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/coloradofloods2013/bp17.jpg

I'd consider moving:

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/coloradofloods2013/bp23.jpg

Kids these days:

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/coloradofloods2013/bp27.jpg

And the most boss pic of them all:

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/coloradofloods2013/bp22.jpg

What amazes me most about America is a combination of living standards & of the help we receive. We are fortunate to fare so much better than many other countries when natural disasters happen, and we have so many good people who show up to help. They were picking people up in Chinook helicopters to whisk them away to safety! We have officially lost 7 people in the Colorado floods; meanwhile in Mexico, nearly 100 people have died from their storm:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...ear-100-from-storms-in-mexico-likely-to-go-up

And people are complaining that the Mexican government is simply ignoring them:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/19/world/americas/mexico-severe-weather/index.html

Definitely grateful to live in this country, despite our problems :thumbsup:
 
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