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Life & Events > Colorados Big Thompson Canyon Flood
 

Colorados Big Thompson Canyon Flood


Just happened across this on youtube.



posted on Jan 26, 2014 6:42 PM ()

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This is awful!
comment by dragonflyby on May 11, 2014 9:33 AM ()
This is so frightening.
comment by elderjane on Jan 28, 2014 7:26 AM ()
That road disappearing was incredible ... can't f with mother nature.
comment by tealstar on Jan 27, 2014 7:51 AM ()
Yeah, and it's becoming the new weather norm.
reply by jjoohhnn on Jan 27, 2014 4:43 PM ()
You guys thought I made up all this drama so I'd have something to whine about all these months.
comment by troutbend on Jan 26, 2014 11:07 PM ()
Well, it could happen....
reply by jjoohhnn on Jan 27, 2014 4:42 PM ()
I looked at all those YouTube videos of the flood back in September, but not lately, and it brings back how frightening it was to be here on the Big Thompson during the flood. This video here shows the morning of the very first day, when it was just getting started. To look at at it tonight, knowing the results, and recognizing buildings that were entirely washed away in the next days following when this video was taken, is very sad. Most of that highway he was driving on ended up completely destroyed, and took two months to rebuild so people could get back to what was left of their homes. I was lucky to be up higher in the canyon, and some of the highway above me was starting to wash away like in the video, but never as bad as the parts shown in this video ended up.
comment by troutbend on Jan 26, 2014 10:58 PM ()
We live in valleys around here, not canyons, but the roads get washed out in the same way. A covered bridge--more than 100 years standing--was washed away by the last hurricane to come up this far. A town was destroyed along with portions of other towns, but nothing quite like on the scale in this video. This shows how ours usually end, not begin. Unfortunately, these extremes of weather are probably the new norm. I have already lived through three 100-year floods, and I'm 60.
reply by jjoohhnn on Jan 27, 2014 4:41 PM ()
dangerous for sure
comment by kevinshere on Jan 26, 2014 8:45 PM ()
That time of year, the river is usually no more than 2 feet deep - this is 25 feet and up. That man who went out onto that platform to open the diversion gate was very brave.
reply by troutbend on Jan 26, 2014 10:39 PM ()
Anywhere near where troutbend lives?????
comment by greatmartin on Jan 26, 2014 8:07 PM ()
Yes it is. That's my river, that was my flood. I drive past the end of the canyon where that pipe is across the road to go to town for groceries.
reply by troutbend on Jan 26, 2014 10:37 PM ()

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