Colorado Exceptional Drought Update

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NCAR Foothills Lab Weather (english, 5-minute)

Flood emergency in Boulder County; 1 person killed, streets impassable

Massive flooding has made the streets of Boulder impassable and destroyed multiple homes in Boulder County, according to Officer of Emergency Management officials.

One person was killed in Jamestown when a structure collapsed because of the flooding, the OEM said.

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood emergency for Boulder County and northwest Jefferson County. A mandatory evacuation has been issued for Jamestown and the Fourmile burn scar area.

The National Weather Service said that county officials reported multiple homes had collapsed in the Jamestown area.

CU-Boulder announced that the campus will be closed on Thursday because of the flooding.

Flood emergency in Boulder County; 1 person killed, streets impassable – The Denver Post

The US Drought Monitor comes out today. Can’t wait to see what drought level we are at this week.

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9 Responses to Colorado Exceptional Drought Update

  1. I heard there were two people killed. One body found in a river, and someone else but no details. I might be wrong.

  2. ozspeaksup says:

    ok fess up.
    who opened the can of dehydrated water?

  3. kbray in california says:

    It’s a phenomenon called Global Raining.

  4. Lance says:

    Drought Monitor….or shall we rename it to something more appropriate…

  5. Colorado Wellington says:

    Reposted from earlier:

    I was out on a call from 1 to 3 am. Water was running over Broadway in Boulder, many streets were flooded so deep I turned around. Broadway was closed at Linden—a rescue effort there. Listening to dispatch: Many canyon roads into the mountains closed at the mouth: Coal Creek, Boulder, Lefthand, Hwy 66 into Lyons, etc. Foothills Hwy flooded and closed south of Lefhand. US 36 closed from Lyons into Larimer County. A firefighter about 3 miles up Lefthand Canyon climbed a tree to escape estimated 15-20 ft wall of water (probably debris dam break). With the bottom of some mountain canyons and many low lying areas to the east impassable the dispatch is directing emergency crews around on drivable roads.

    After break in the rain in Boulder the floods are subsiding in some parts of the city but heavy flows are coming out of the canyons.

  6. Jimmy Haigh. says:

    That’s climate change that is. Can’t you see? From drought to flood overnight. That’s all you rich white guys and your SUV’s that did that.

    (/sarc – just in case its needed…_)

  7. G. Watkins says:

    Probably the wrong sort of rain to end a drought – too wet I expect.

  8. margaret berger says:

    It’s rotten thin rain from the rotten thin ice of the arctic. It doesn’t count and won’t stay around.

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