‘Biblical’ Flooding Rages In Colorado

This home was stranded Thursday after a flash flood in Coal Creek destroyed a bridge near Golden, Colo. Rick Wilking /Reuters /Landov
This home was stranded Thursday after a flash flood in Coal Creek destroyed a bridge near Golden, Colo. Rick Wilking /Reuters /Landov

“As heavy rains brought wide ranging flood conditions across the state Thursday, the Front Range is bracing for more Friday,” our colleagues at Northern Colorado’s KUNC report.

They add that:

“The National Weather Service had described the water levels as ‘biblical’ Thursday. Reporter Luke Runyon noted on Twitter that it was an appropriate adjective given the state’s recent run of drought and wildfires.

“State wide, the flooding has killed three — one in Jamestown when a structure collapsed, another in Colorado Springs, and the third in Boulder — where a woman is also missing.”

The station is using Storify to follow the “torrential rains” and flooding.

The Denver Post begins its coverage Friday this way:

“Drop by drop by drop, historic rainfall across a 150-mile expanse of Colorado’s Front Range turned neighborhood streams into rampaging torrents that claimed at least three lives and continued to flood homes and destroy roads into the night.

“Heavy rain returned to the region Thursday evening, threatening an equally disastrous Friday.”

The National Weather Service’s “watches, warnings or advisories for Colorado” are collected here. The agency adds:

While “moderate to heavy rain will begin to taper off from the south through the day … due to saturated soils and swollen rivers flooding [is] still possible.”

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