Just some very interesting info I read today:
By 5 p.m. Wednesday, the weather service?s flood watches had become flood warnings ? the highest level of alerts, which urge people to seek high ground immediately. Meteorologists along the Front Range watched in disbelief as rain gauges filled. By Wednesday night, Boulder County was experiencing a 1,000 year flood ? something that has 1/1,000th chance every year of happening, Schumacher said.
For Nielsson, the county?s emergency manager, last week?s floods make the Big Thompson Flood of 1976 look like ?a relatively tiny event.?
Nielsson remembers walking in the canyon afterward, where ?you would never know that a road had ever been put there.? A 17-mile swath of U.S. Highway 34 was washed away last week ? only a small portion of several miles of road around the state swallowed by floodwaters.
?This is worse than Big Thompson, and I never thought I?d say that,? said Erick Nielsson, the emergency manager for Larimer County. Nielsson was an EMT in 1976 when the Big Thompson River flood killed 143 people in Larimer County.
They have said that we (meaning most everywhere east of the Divide) has received a year's worth of rain in a week. I am not expert, however I would think that would end any kind of drought, water restrictions and all that.
I just do not want to hear about how we are still in a drought or under water restrictions.
Greg
By 5 p.m. Wednesday, the weather service?s flood watches had become flood warnings ? the highest level of alerts, which urge people to seek high ground immediately. Meteorologists along the Front Range watched in disbelief as rain gauges filled. By Wednesday night, Boulder County was experiencing a 1,000 year flood ? something that has 1/1,000th chance every year of happening, Schumacher said.
For Nielsson, the county?s emergency manager, last week?s floods make the Big Thompson Flood of 1976 look like ?a relatively tiny event.?
Nielsson remembers walking in the canyon afterward, where ?you would never know that a road had ever been put there.? A 17-mile swath of U.S. Highway 34 was washed away last week ? only a small portion of several miles of road around the state swallowed by floodwaters.
?This is worse than Big Thompson, and I never thought I?d say that,? said Erick Nielsson, the emergency manager for Larimer County. Nielsson was an EMT in 1976 when the Big Thompson River flood killed 143 people in Larimer County.
They have said that we (meaning most everywhere east of the Divide) has received a year's worth of rain in a week. I am not expert, however I would think that would end any kind of drought, water restrictions and all that.
I just do not want to hear about how we are still in a drought or under water restrictions.
Greg