Front Range DUers...hope you are safe.

[likesmountains 52]

I'm on the Western Slope and can't believe the pictures I'm seeing of what's going on up there.

[hlthe2b]

1. I'm currently in Fort Collins, so missing the brunt, BUT

the scenes from Lyons and Boulder, and elsewhere remind me very much of 1997 flash flood in central Fort Collins, which occurred by surprise at night, taking 5 lives and causing incredible destruction... I still pass and sometimes walk the bike trails near where this all occurred and it takes me back. This Youtube from the city is breathtaking to watch...

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And for those still not convinced re: the terror and devastation from flash floods, this memorial account of the 1976 Big Thompson River flood (biggest and most devastating in CO history) should give you pause:

http://blogs.denverpost.com/library/2012/07/31/big-thompson-flood-disaster-colorado-1976/2795/

Best wishes to all those caught up in this one...And special thoughts to those surviving floods in the burn zones from last summer.

[likesmountains 52]

2. I was a teenager in Denver during the Denver flood in 1965

and a young woman during the Big Thompson flood. All the water coming down the canyons is just so powerful. The pics from Lyons are devastating.

[Laffy Kat]

3. In Lafayette, Boulder County. . .

Haven't been out today to look around but will have to go to work in Longmont tomorrow. One ramp about a mile from me, off 287, totally washed out with one truck and three cars on top. All three people taken to the hospital but were released with minor injuries. It just started raining again . . .

[kentuck]

5. It's still raining, off and on...

It rained a lot about an hour ago. It won't take much more for Manitou to be flooded again.

[curlyred]

4. Crazy weather, no doubt

Much standing water on I25 and 76 this morning, better this afternoon. The Platte is as high as I have seen it since the mid 70s.

[Koko Ware]

6. That reminds me - will have to take a peek at Cherry Creek to see if it's already in flooding stage.

i live on hilltop....

[curlyred]

8. A friend posted some pics of Cherry Creek on Facebook

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It's very high.

[Koko Ware]

9. really?

the little creek that runs alongside cherry creek road (north and south) by holly st?

[JimDandy]

7. What's normally an urbanized creek behind my residence

is over it's banks, but we're 25 ft above it and in no danger. What a mess further north though.