Colorado Flooding Update: Rescues Continue as Drier Weather Pattern Sets Up
http://www.wunderground.com/news/colorado-flooding-update-rescues-continue-20130916

By: weather.com and Associated Press
Published: September 16, 2013

ESTES PARK, Colo. -- Colorado mountain towns cut off for days by massive flooding slowly reopened to reveal cabins toppled, homes ripped from their foundations and everything covered in a thick layer of muck. Anxious home and business owners hurriedly cleaned and cleared what they could salvage as rescuers looked for a break in the weather Monday to resume airlifting those still stranded.

Throughout the flooded region, isolated storms are possible early this week but it will be nothing like the devastating floods last week. Here are the latest headlines:

5 people confirmed dead
1,500 homes destroyed and 17,500 damaged, according to Colo. Office of Emergency Management
1,200+ people are unaccounted for
More than a dozen counties declared disaster areas
Thunderstorms possible Monday and Tuesday in flooded areas

(MORE: Colorado Flood Zone Forecast | Aerial Photos of Damage)

"After seeing more localized heavy rainfall over the weekend in the areas hit hard by flooding last week, a drier weather pattern is taking shaping for much of the new week ahead," said weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce.

In Estes Park, crews plowed up to a foot of mud left standing along Estes Park's main street after the river coursed through the heart of town late last week. .....

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)

4. Having been through the Great Flood of 1993 and its repeat in 2008 in our area,

Reply to Coyotl (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 16, 2013, 04:00 PM

Sep 2013

my heart goes out to the people in the path of this devastation. It's a hard slog to clean up after one of these, especially when infrastructure has also been extensively destroyed. We only had one dam overflow in 1993 but the force of that water going downstream scoured out a gorge to the bedrock. People were still trying to recover from 93 when the 08 flood hit.