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Colorado Flooding
If you lived in the flood ravaged areas of Colorado right now, what would you do? Would you stay (unless you were under an evacuation order), or would you leave? Or some other option?
Comment #1: I am from Aurora, Colorado. Half of the city is big trouble. The other half is soaked and I am very surprised it haven’t flooded. We are okay but it’s still raining. Today I will be volunteering at an evac shelter or wherever I am needed.
I am grateful for my training as a Community Emergency Response Team member and my Red Cross training and for being a prepper.
If I had to evacuate I would do it in a heartbeat. I would not want to be part of the problem. First responders don’t need ti be worrying about me and my family. There are hundreds even thousands of others that really need their help.
One thing I haven’t done but will be doing is, getting flood insurance. I am kicking myself for putting that off. It takes 30 days before it becomes effective. Hindsight is 20/20.
Comment #2: I would visit my sister who is over 8000 feet up the slope to pikes peak. I doubt that area will flood.
Comment #3: I. live in Boulder County. I am home and it is very badly flooded all over. Just stay home is the key here. As for living in the mountains here it is quite safe they are mostly granite……I love it here.
Comment #4: While, I’m not from Colorado, there are epic river flood stories. Some decades ago the big thompson canyon near estes park totally washed everything away, I think there are still memorials along the river. That canyon is flooding again. Moving water has an incredible power that people can forget.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Thompson_River
“On July 31, 1976, during the celebration of Colorado’s centennial, the Big Thompson Canyon was the site of a devastating flash flood that swept down the steep and narrow canyon, claiming the lives of 143 people, 5 of whom were never found. This flood was triggered by a nearly stationary thunderstorm near the upper section of the canyon that dumped 300 millimeters (12 inches) of rain in less than 4 hours (more than 3/4 of the average annual rainfall for the area). Little rain fell over the lower section of the canyon, where many of the victims were.
Around 9 p.m., a wall of water more than 6 meters (20 ft) high raced down the canyon at about 6 m/s (14 mph), destroying 400 cars, 418 houses and 52 businesses and washing out most of U.S. Route 34.[5] This flood was more than 4 times as strong as any in the 112-year record available in 1976, with a discharge of 1,000 cubic meters per second (35,000 ft³/s)”
the geography of the canyon with narrow steep walls is such that that particular area poses an extreme risk in flooding.
Comment #5: My worry about higher ground is that so much rain can cause “slides” and many homes at high altitudes are perched on hillsides which is also quite dangerous.
I’d have “packed” my livestock, pets and treasured possessions with my bugout supplies and hustled outta there on any designated “safe” road.
Comment #6: I do live near there, but being on the west side of pikes peak we are not getting the same rains that the east side is.. Other than not being able to get to town, it’s just wet.. So having food in hand is good. – we do our shopping on Wednesdays because we have other reasons to be down the mountain and when town is. 1-1.5 hrs, you don’t go down daily if you can help it
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Just thinking out loud but I find it interesting that all this Colorado flooding starts after those two democratic chuckle heads were victoriously voted out of office for implementing their draconian anti-gun laws there that no one wanted.