Colorado floods - calling Lulu! Please check in!

[Harlowe]

Hey Lulu, I've been thinking about you and worrying you were in the path of this - Taxious are you around this as well?

I'm hoping you both (and your families) are safe and sound and your homes as well.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/13/us/flooding-colorado/

[Harlowe]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/13/us/flooding-colorado/

[Jarochai Alabaster]

Tax lives in Denver, which your link says is affected. Here's hoping everyone's safe.

[Harlowe]

I looked at the area where the new house he bought is, and it looks like his immediate area is okay (NW of him, looks awful). I don't know what area Allu is in though.

http://www.google.org/publicalerts/aler ... source=web

I have a friend in Waldo Canyon, but at that elevation they are good. Just everything closed below them. She said living on their side of Waldo Canyon and up the pass means multiple and indeterminate closures that *if* it's open to get through, there is no guarantee you could get back home. School recommends now that these kids keep overnight bags in their lockers just in case they are stranded at school. The only alternative routes are 3 hours around. She said they are supposed to have issues like this for the next 10 years, post fire.

[Ddrak]

Hope all are ok. Floods are no fun.

Dd

[Alluveal]

Ack! Just saw this. I'm good! We're in a sweet-spot area in Ft. Collins where we have almost no runoff.

We're not by any of the rivers or overpasses or by lakes/ponds, whatnot (at least any that have overflowed). So, we are VERY lucky! The sun actually came out today. Most of the bad stuff in our area is happening to the west, in the burn area from the High Park Fire and by the Big Thompson and Poudre Rivers.

The highway is closed, though, from North Denver all the way to Wyoming. Some of that flooded. Lots of stranded people in the area!

I think Tax is okay. He posted a dog adoption update 41 minutes ago on FB.

Here is a map of what I've kind of seen on the news.... Red/pink areas are places where flooding is happening or there are super high threats. We're in Ft. Collins. (About 45 miles north of Denver).

[Harlowe]

So glad to hear it!!! Whew!

[Taxious]

My house is in NW Denver county and was fine. I've been in CO my whole life and never seen it rain this consistently though. They said if we got this storm in the winter it'd be equivalent to 10+ feet of snow.

A few of my co-workers couldn't make it in last week because of road closures. One (that lives in Boulder) had her entire basement flood with mud and I guess a lot of her neighbor's animals died because they couldn't save them in time.

I think Tax is okay. He posted a dog adoption update 41 minutes ago on FB.

You must think I'm someone else on FB. Glad to hear you are alright though Lulu, I think Ft. Collins / Boulder got the worst of it. Sad to see all the destruction it caused to the highway leading up to Estes Park.

[Harlowe]

Thanks for checking in Tax - it's good to hear you are safe and sound too - and your new house, how shitty would that have been to have a basement full of mud your first year?!

How horrible for the folks in it's path though. What a mess...