Wow! Haven’t really been following this...is this just some freak of Nature, some 200-year flood?
Or is it Globull Warming? Has Algore shown up to speak in CO this week? ;)
OMG! It’s like The Johnstown Flood!
The floods began Wednesday. Floodwaters have affected parts of a 4,500-square-mile area, almost the size of Connecticut.
More pictures, too.
http://www.chieftain.com/home/1842337-120/boulder-lyons-friday-mountain
These 200 year floods seem to occur about every ten years.
We were running a little dry. Nature loves averages, so we had an early and wet monsoon season. Then this big old high pressure system parked itself over Nevada. Colorado is on the upswing side, tons of gulf and Pacific moisture funneling up from the south in a virtual Aerial river.
They are calling it a 500 to 1000 year event. There are floods in drainage plains, but very rare to have everyone affected at once.
they have reported the Big Thompson was higher this time than when it flooded in 1976, killing 150 or so.
this time add in boulder creek, south boulder creek, four mile creek, clear creek, left hand , St vrain, platte, and poudre.