Flooding

[rondog]

Man, all this flooding is crazy - I sure hope everyone here is OK.....

[OtterbatHellcat]

Me too, brother....... Me too.

[BuffCyclist]

I wonder, what is the fastest way to get the most number of CU students on tubes and into the creek?

Oh yea, send out an Emergency Alert saying the creek flow is up to 5k cuft. Any true Boulderite will know that in the spring time, the snow melt makes the creek flow at a max of 500cuft and that is some of the best tubing, so 5k cuft should be EPIC!

[LOL]

[Great-Kazoo]

I wonder, what is the fastest way to get the most number of CU students on tubes and into the creek?

[LOL]

Hey anyone see all that weed running past the dorms?

[blacklabel]

The flooding in Evans is amazing. I'm just a couple miles away and dry but damn, I feel for those people.

[Byte Stryke]

33855

in other news, Georgia celebrates 8 days without heavy rain

I think its safe to sell my stockpile of Gopher wood

[Bailey Guns]

From Evergreen on Upper Bear Creek Rd...above Evergreen Lake towards Clear Creek County:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z3WmTf8lL0

[Byte Stryke]

watching all of that water... I have to pee

[rondog]

Stuff like this really underscores the real estate phrase "location, location, location". Lotta serious things to consider when buying or building.....

[Great-Kazoo]

Stuff like this really underscores the real estate phrase "location, location, location". Lotta serious things to consider when buying or building.....

To a point. A tornado area was something we did discuss, but WINDSOR [LOL]TORNADO. Never. Till 5 years ago. Same for the 45 min hail storm. When your number is under the arrow on the roulette wheel. it doesn't matter if you're under Cheyenne Mtn. Shit happens, we have no control over.

BUT, in agreeing with your context, every time we drive somewhere. It's "hey that's a nice location for a house" Good field of fire, nice elevation for spotting threats at a distance, off the main road etc.

[crashdown]

Yep...
We really considered location. Top of a mountain, good view, low flood danger. Near paved roads. Facing east, but good southern exposure for snow melt.
Property in good location for survivability of forest fires. Many escape routes in case of natural disaster. House construction good for snow, water, and other issues.
But shit if every road isn't destroyed from these floods.... Who woulda thought?

[trlcavscout]

Anybody with flood damage need help? We should set up a helping hand for members thread. Also make sure your insurance isnt gonna jack you before you file a water damage claim.

[blacklabel]

Don't flush your crapper if you're in Evans.

[Ronin13]

Today was crazy! This morning I heard on the radio that HWY 74 from Evergreen to Morrison was closed- so I figured I was okay to go North (WB) on 74 to get to I-70 from S. Evergreen... WRONG! They were turning people back at EVFD Station 1 (if not sure, look at google maps). I had to be at Rooney Valley LE Range by 7:45 and had to go almost to Conifer to get on 285, then take 470 to Morrison Rd to Rooney Rd. Made it in time for range time, but damn, talk about going the long way around.

Then driving back from training this evening hit a massive storm in Lakewood between Youngfield and C470- 2-4 inches of standing water on I-70. Downtown Evergreen is still closed, the dam is over flowing, the park below the dam is gone, and the bar just beyond there got flooded. Evergreen didn't get hit that hard, but what we got hit with sure did some bad damage to Bear Creek. Hope everyone is staying safe and dry- ANG troops deployed up north yesterday to aid with the evac. Hope no one lost their guns in the flood...

[crashdown]

Damn.....
We had one long ass, way out of the way out of here, and now it got washed out.
Lyons is peanuts compared to the thousands of homes up here, but we are getting no love from the media or authorities.
No grocery stores, no gas stations, just a liquor store without power.
Not a comforting feeling that we got a baby due any day.

[rondog]

Damn.....

Not a comforting feeling that we got a baby due any day.

Holy shit.....

[LeftHandBlack]

Yah Ive seen on the news how crazy its been but here in Brighton Nothing is going on! Crazy how the surrounding areas are so affected and we just had light rain mainly.

[XC700116]

I tried getting home as I've been on the road the last couple days, got about 2 miles from the house and hit the road block. It's sounding like my house so far hasn't been affected, but all roads in and out are closed. The most comforting info I've gotten is that the shelter is the middle school about 2 blocks from my house so hopefully my issues with all of it are limited to having to do some shopping for some clothes and checking into a hotel for the weekend or at least until the roads open.

I'm kicking myself in the arse for having pulled my go bag out of the work truck earlier this year and not getting it back in there. I had used some of the clothes in it on a road trip that went longer than expected so I pulled it out to wash the clothes and re-pack it and never got it back in the truck. Needless to say, that's getting done first thing when I get back home and it's probably going to be done in a bigger bag and have MANY items added to it.

[GilpinGuy]

I had to take the "back way" from my house today because the main road was getting a new culvert installed by the County. The rain washed a giant gully across the road.

I head down the back way (unmaintained road - basically a trail) and suddenly the car stops like a fly hitting fly paper, I see a wave of mud flow in front of me and I feel the car sink. I literally said out load "What the F*** just happened?" It was like driving into a swimming pool. The road was totally saturated, like quicksand, and knee deep.

I had to slog through the crap in my work clothes, hike back home, call in to work to tell them I wouldn't make it, and enlist a few neighbors to help me out.

In short, we got it dug out after 4 hours of slogging around in the muck. My back is killing me and the car is out - undamaged I should add.

Hey, I'm lucky. Many folks are WAY worse off.

[fitz19d]

I tried getting home as I've been on the road the last couple days, got about 2 miles from the house and hit the road block. It's sounding like my house so far hasn't been affected, but all roads in and out are closed. The most comforting info I've gotten is that the shelter is the middle school about 2 blocks from my house so hopefully my issues with all of it are limited to having to do some shopping for some clothes and checking into a hotel for the weekend or at least until the roads open.

I'm kicking myself in the arse for having pulled my go bag out of the work truck earlier this year and not getting it back in there. I had used some of the clothes in it on a road trip that went longer than expected so I pulled it out to wash the clothes and re-pack it and never got it back in the truck. Needless to say, that's getting done first thing when I get back home and it's probably going to be done in a bigger bag and have MANY items added to it.



Hey let me know if you manage to find a way in. (PM or whatever.) I'm in same boat, I live over on tamera near the school west end. Problem is one window well was retaining water despite not being in flood area. Was leaking first day but receded. Couldnt get home yesterday morning at 8am and had basically 24 hours to fill and leak and I have power strips down low for very expensive saltwater reef tanks.....

[fitz19d]

From milliken police FB, I was able to get in this way to top off my saltwater tanks.


There is now one route to get in and out of Milliken. You must take WCR 46.5 (Green Street) west to WCR 19. WCR 19 south to WCR 38. WCR 38 west to WCR 13. WCR 13 south to WCR 34 or WCR 24 west to I-25. The main roads out of town (HWY 60, Hwy 257, and Two Rivers Parkway remain closed at this time and an estimated time for them to be reopened is unknown. In many cases the roads are badly damaged or washed away.


Pretty easy as many of the turns are blocked.

[Tinelement]

Got into my shop yesterday about 2pm. The shop is about 150 yards from the Big Thompson.
We ended up with 14" of water in the shop.

[stoner01]

Damn

[merl]

Got into my shop yesterday about 2pm. The shop is about 150 yards from the Big Thompson.
We ended up with 14" of water in the shop.

Did you manage to get everything important off the ground before you had to leave?

[Glock Shooter]

We live in Eldorado Springs, probably the only rental home in the valley. We're about a mile from 93 about 2 to 3 miles from the town of Eldorado Springs. Thursday around 5pm it got really bad. We either experienced a Flash Flood or a dam broke as the water came rushing down the road and through our yard. We had knee deep water out front and the sump pump would not turn on so the basement crawlspace started filling. I have 3 kids, ages 5, 9, and 18, a wife, and a 96 year old grandmother in the late stages of multi-infarct dementia so needless to say, evacuating was the last thing I wanted to do.

We moved our bug-out bags to the back of the 4 Runner and positioned it along with the Tacoma on high ground ready to go. Lucky for us we're about 2 feet higher than the next property, they were 100% flooded out. By 7pm the water had risen and the water was 13 feet from the front door. My son and I shoveled like mad men, luckily we had a huge pile of gravel left over from a project and we made our stand. I made the kids sleep in their clothes and we readied to go. I stayed up until 4:30am monitoring the situation. The water in the crawlspace was 6" from the top and I still could not get the sump pump to turn on.

By sunlight I had 4" of room in the crawlspace and I started calling every hardware store between here and Thornton looking for a sump pump. I tried to post here but couldn't figure out any of the test, although I could hear the Jeopardy music in my head. Finally at 2pm Home Depot got a shipment of 200 sump pumps and I broke several speed laws getting there. There are about 25 people in front of me and nobody can tell us how many they have left. Then this 20something kid walks over and says "I have a sump pump and hose I purchased yesterday I'll sell" so I reply "Would you be selling the pump for more than you paid yesterday?" and he smiled and said "Yes". Several people on the line looked like they wanted to jump the rope and rip his throat out so I said "You know...in some parts of the country you'd get shot for trying to profit from a disaster" He tries to shrug it off and says "Glad that's not here in Boulder" to which I say "Are you sure?" he then proceeds to run out of the store and I got a round of applause from the crowd and several pats on the back.

The pump is still going.....just a few more inches.

[trlcavscout]

7 news just reported that the 4 dead are still dead.

[10mm-man]

7 news just reported that the 4 dead are still dead.
Were they expecting Zombies or something?

[Great-Kazoo]

7 news just reported that the 4 dead are still dead.

Any word on Generalissimo Francisco Franco ?

[trlcavscout]

Still hoping the boulder hippies washed in to Kansas.

[stoner01]

Still hoping the boulder hippies washed in to Kansas.

At least they got a bath.

[fitz19d]

Got into my shop yesterday about 2pm. The shop is about 150 yards from the Big Thompson.
We ended up with 14" of water in the shop.

Do you know if it's clear from I25 straight into town?

[blacklabel]

At least they got a bath.

That's some glass half full stuff right there.

[SideShow Bob]

Still hoping the boulder hippies washed in to Kansas.

Hey now, Kansas may blow, but their gun laws are good . And I don't think Kansas has done anything bad enough to deserve Boulder's hippie wannabes.

[stoner01]

That's some glass half full stuff right there.
Easy for me, Im nowhere near there. Like 7000 miles near.

[Great-Kazoo]

wife went to loveland this morning by way of greeley. south and west out of windsor are closed. She was detoured to 59th in greeley! harmony rd is bumper - bumper standstill.

[newracer]

Harmony is backup up over 2 miles to the east to get into FoCo, but it actually moves fairly fast.

[Great-Kazoo]

Harmony is backup up over 2 miles to the east to get into FoCo, but it actually moves fairly fast.

If it's that important, it should have been on hand. I believe there is a major rush from the entire Evans populace, for TP and port -a - potties. 10 days no sewage system [hahhah-no]

[XC700116]

From milliken police FB, I was able to get in this way to top off my saltwater tanks.


There is now one route to get in and out of Milliken. You must take WCR 46.5 (Green Street) west to WCR 19. WCR 19 south to WCR 38. WCR 38 west to WCR 13. WCR 13 south to WCR 34 or WCR 24 west to I-25. The main roads out of town (HWY 60, Hwy 257, and Two Rivers Parkway remain closed at this time and an estimated time for them to be reopened is unknown. In many cases the roads are badly damaged or washed away.


Pretty easy as many of the turns are blocked.

I couldn't find this on the FB page but decided to give it a shot and it is open. Thanks for the heads up. I think I'm still going to go back to the hotel because work is in a bad place with the washouts and I'll need to be as mobile as possible and they say they're going to close that route if the water starts rising again.

[stoner01]

The reporting on this is starting to irritate me. I love how the news will only focus on Boulder. Ive only once seen a mention of Larimer county. Nothing from the other 17 counties affected.

[DOC]

That Prius is going to polute the water so bad.
I wonder how soon Gov. Chickenlooper is going to take before he blames Global Warming for this? Or says that we need more gun control to prevent these storms from happening again.
LOL he would too.

[DavieD55]

Here is what South Longmont is looking like.


http://youtu.be/8DROpPDNDpY

[sniper7]

Got into my shop yesterday about 2pm. The shop is about 150 yards from the Big Thompson.
We ended up with 14" of water in the shop.

Did the beer survive?

[Irving]

Got into my shop yesterday about 2pm. The shop is about 150 yards from the Big Thompson.
We ended up with 14" of water in the shop.

Good thing you aren't a cardboard fabricator.

[DEAGLER]

Anyone live around conifer/bailey? Planning a trip to harris park tomorrow but not sure about conditions up there.

[blacklabel]

The reporting on this is starting to irritate me. I love how the news will only focus on Boulder. Ive only once seen a mention of Larimer county. Nothing from the other 17 counties affected.

There's been a ton of coverage of Evans the last day or so.

[rondog]

Anybody heard anything about Estes Park? I haven't, but I know the Big Thompson runs right through town.

[twitchyfinger]

couple more vids:

Ariel tour of Fort Collins and Loveland floods:

http://www.coloradoan.com/videonetwork/2670951716001/Aerial-tour-of-Fort-Collins-Loveland-flooding

Glen Haven:

http://youtu.be/stghpQxrbUQ

Drake flood:


http://youtu.be/ydSqhLXiuEU

[rondog]

Great, now it's raining again. Raining like a two-pussied cow pissing on a big flat rock here in Parker.

[twitchyfinger]

Estes park:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Itq2nr6hXM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[Bailey Guns]

Anyone live around conifer/bailey? Planning a trip to harris park tomorrow but not sure about conditions up there.

Conifer and Bailey have been spared. We've got a lot of rain around Bailey but nothing like what's happening in other areas. I don't know what the road to HP is gonna be like, though.

[rondog]

Estes park:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Itq2nr6hXM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Wow. We always stay at the Rockmount Cottages several miles upstream from there, gotta wonder about 'em. Thanks for the video link!

[twitchyfinger]

Crazy weather for sure! I'm just south of you right now in Franktown and the most we have had here today is a light to medium rain. All around us was/is being hammered! Go figure...

[DEAGLER]

Conifer and Bailey have been spared. We've got a lot of rain around Bailey but nothing like what's happening in other areas. I don't know what the road to HP is gonna be like, though.


Thanks!

[strm_trpr]

My family's cabin in Estes is fine but we were told that we would not have water or sewer till mid November.

[Great-Kazoo]

My family's cabin in Estes is fine but we were told that we would not have water or sewer till mid November.

It will take them at least that long to get some form of road structure in place.

[Hummer]

Our cabin on the Middle St. Vrain Creek is 24' from the river bank. At flood stage the roar of the river is tremendous. At night, every few seconds I can hear and feel the thumping of boulders against rocks as they roll down stream. There's going to be some major displacement from this flood. Large trees have fallen across the river creating dams and diversions.

In the '69 flood, the St. Vrain below Camp Dick changed course to flow through older channels in the willows above the glacial moraine. The changed course, along with beaver activity formed many ponds full of brookies. Some of those ponds have now refilled with peat and silt, making them higher and restricting water flow. In a few days we should see if the river has changed course again to the rocky channels of the 1960's.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g292/COHummer/Peaceful%20Valley/Waterforce_zps449e4d02.jpg (http://s59.photobucket.com/user/COHummer/media/Peaceful%20Valley/Waterforce_zps449e4d02.jpg.html)

[rondog]

I have to wonder if this flooding in the mountain streams has stirred up and dislodged any hidden gold nuggets.....

[asmo]

Went to Hawaii on vacation. Just got a call from someone staying at my house in Parker - apparently the basement has now flooded. Don't know how bad.. Blah. Can't do anything about it until I get home later next week.

[Great-Kazoo]

I have to wonder if this flooding in the mountain streams has stirred up and dislodged any hidden gold nuggets.....

Right now the only Nuggets being dug up are from septic tanks and sewage plants. BON APPETITE

[Irving]

So I was standing in Home Depot tonight asking a guy about if I should buy a stud finder or not. He took a call and I kept hearing him telling the dude on the phone "No, we're totally out, the shelves are bare. Well there won't be any trucks coming in at night." He gets off the phone and I ask if the caller was asking for sump pumps. He says, "Yeah." I tell him, "Dude, you guys have about 200 of them right in the front of the store in front of the garden center." He says, "What really? No wonder they aren't on the shelves."

[facepalm]

[stoner01]

That's funny shit right there.

[palepainter]

Geniuses.....

[stoner01]

Would anyone know where to get those long sand bag deals that you would see in a drainage channel? Id like to have a few to keep on my porch.

[palepainter]

Possibly Murdocks

[Great-Kazoo]

Would anyone know where to get those long sand bag deals that you would see in a drainage channel? Id like to have a few to keep on my porch.

If they are not available shredded paper in pillow cases or any kind of porous sack works. A lot of liquid mitigation disposable barriers, are stuffed with shredded paper. We use them on oil spills, along with kitty litter.

[TheGrey]

http://www.usmix.com/tube_sand.phtml

[patrick0685]

my sewer pipes that just got cleaned on Tuesday are starting to back up...not to bad yet but i hope it doesnt back up into my house

[Tinelement]

Just got home. Been at the shop since 7am. Got most of the silt out, 2" after the water deained. Still along way to go. Gonna be a long week!

We got nailed, no doubt about it. But there are still folks way worse off than me.

Everyone involved, good luck, be safe, and God bless.

[Hummer]

I have to wonder if this flooding in the mountain streams has stirred up and dislodged any hidden gold nuggets.....

Without a doubt! A friend over in Ward said she was going out with the metal detector as soon as the conflagration settled. Nuggets appearing like September mushrooms. Life is like a box of chocolates....

[rondog]

Without a doubt! A friend over in Ward said she was going out with the metal detector as soon as the conflagration settled. Nuggets appearing like September mushrooms. Life is like a box of chocolates....

Wish I had one of those, been wanting one for years.

[twitchyfinger]

This is video of Larimer County Colorado Sheriff Justin Smith's helicopter flight to survey the flooding damage throughout Larimer County taken on September 14, 2013.

@3:00 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0d3j4zmnyY&feature=youtu.be#) Enter Big Thompson Canyon @10:00 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0d3j4zmnyY&feature=youtu.be#) Enter Drake @18:00 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0d3j4zmnyY&feature=youtu.be#) Enter Estes Park @18:34 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0d3j4zmnyY&feature=youtu.be#) Fish Creek Rd begin, North to South @19:24 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0d3j4zmnyY&feature=youtu.be#) Country Club Dr @19:41 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0d3j4zmnyY&feature=youtu.be#) breached lower earth dam: Carriage Hills. @20:27 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0d3j4zmnyY&feature=youtu.be#) Entrance to Little Valley @22:44 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0d3j4zmnyY&feature=youtu.be#) Cheeley Camp @23:00 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0d3j4zmnyY&feature=youtu.be#) Baldpate Inn/ hwy 7 @23:34 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0d3j4zmnyY&feature=youtu.be#) Massive Twin Sisters earth slide above Aspen Lodge @28:00 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0d3j4zmnyY&feature=youtu.be#) Big Elk Meadows Rd @29:05 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0d3j4zmnyY&feature=youtu.be#) Dead Man's Curve/ hwy 36 @29:40 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0d3j4zmnyY&feature=youtu.be#) Pinewood Springs @38:00 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0d3j4zmnyY&feature=youtu.be#) Lake Estes/ Olympus Dam @38:47 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0d3j4zmnyY&feature=youtu.be#) Starting at Switchbacks (to G Haven) Stay Strong!


http://youtu.be/W0d3j4zmnyY

[rondog]

Christ! Whose 7 year old kid was running that video camera in the chopper? I'd kill for the opportunity to do that, and I guarantee my results would be 10x better, even with my cheapo handheld Sony.

[JohnnyEgo]

Got to Windsor last night from Colorado Springs. 470 and I-25, no real problems until I got to Greeley. Ended up having to go back out and up to Mulberry, then down CR19 to get home.

Out and about today, and it was easy enough to get into Greeley by 392 & 59th. Starbucks was full of people who live on the eastern side of town who were complaining about the inability to take a shower. Hell, stand outside with some Prell. Problem solved.

I will never again complain about how high my house sits on my lot, or how high my stem walls are. Stay safe, everyone!

[Great-Kazoo]

Got to Windsor last night from Colorado Springs. 470 and I-25, no real problems until I got to Greeley. Ended up having to go back out and up to Mulberry, then down CR19 to get home.

Out and about today, and it was easy enough to get into Greeley by 392 & 59th. Starbucks was full of people who live on the eastern side of town who were complaining about the inability to take a shower. Hell, stand outside with some Prell. Problem solved.

I will never again complain about how high my house sits on my lot, or how high my stem walls are. Stay safe, everyone!

Yes you will. I know it, you know it.

[JohnnyEgo]

True enough!

[firefighter238]

Just like with the fires earlier this year. If ANYONE needs help please call/text my cell at 719-321-6314 I've got the truck and am bouncing around with rescue teams. I know im a bit late getting this out there but Ive been a tad busy.... thanks guys!

[hurley842002]

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/09/16/gumata2e.jpg

Friend just posted this on FB! I was just by there yesterday and it was fine, this is the northern location.

ETA: 144th was closed due to flooding, and it was flowing pretty bad, but it must have gotten much worse to affect Cabela's like this.

[blacklabel]

Evans can flush, shower & use drains but no laundry yet. I've never been so happy in all of my life.

[frozenmud]

Evans can flush, shower & use drains but no laundry yet. I've never been so happy in all of my life.

That was way faster then I was expecting.

[Irving]

Any reason why laundry is excluded? Chemicals? Or maybe just trying to ease back into water useage?

[trlcavscout]

Evans can flush, shower & use drains but no laundry yet. I've never been so happy in all of my life.

That is good! No more ports potties for Evans!

[frozenmud]

Any reason why laundry is excluded? Chemicals? Or maybe just trying to ease back into water useage?

The is some conflicting info between Evans Facebook and the city webpage.

From the city webpage that I intend to abide by "All businesses and residences east of 35th Avenue are now allowed to flush toilets and shower, but are being asked to conserve water for now, which means being cautious about laundry and dishwasher use until further notice. Watch for more information about the "NO FLUSH" situation on the FAQ page as updated."

"

[Aloha_Shooter]

Evans can flush, shower & use drains but no laundry yet. I've never been so happy in all of my life.

I was never so happy to see a flush toilet than after a week on the trail at Philmont Scout Ranch.

[blacklabel]

Any reason why laundry is excluded? Chemicals? Or maybe just trying to ease back into water useage?

I'm assuming it's just due to the amount of water used. The average washing machine uses 40 gallons of water from what I read so I think they're trying to not have the system inundated right off the bat.