Сильное наводнение в Колорадо
Очень сильное. К сожалению, есть погибшие.
All the while, rain continued to fall, causing flooding across a wide rugged area stretching from Denver to Fort Collins.
The overflowing St. Vrain River cut the town of Longmont in half. Evacuation requests were issued for some neighborhoods, all major roads were closed and several thousand homes and businesses were without power.
“This one’s going to bring us to our knees,” said Tom Simmons, president and co-owner of Crating Technologies, a packing service that had its warehouse inundated. “It’s hoping against hope. We’re out of business for a long time.”
National Guard troops were working to evacuate more people who had become stranded in Lyons and other communities in the foothills.
About 60 miles of Interstate 25 east of Loveland were closed Friday from north of Denver to Fort Collins because of flooding from the St. Vrain and Big Thompson rivers, transportation officials said.
So far, at least four people have been killed and another was missing. Hundreds more were forced to seek emergency shelter up and down Colorado’s heavily populated Front Range, which has received more than 15 inches of rain this week, according to the National Weather Service.
That’s about half the amount of precipitation that normally falls in the foothills near Boulder during an entire year.
Boulder County spokesman James Burrus said 17 people were unaccounted for Friday. But, he noted, that doesn’t necessarily mean they are missing.
“It means we haven’t heard back from them,” Burrus said.
Late Thursday, warning sirens blared in Boulder, and city officials told about 4,000 people living along Boulder Creek to head for higher ground.
Debris and mud coming off the mountainsides had backed up water at the mouth of Boulder Canyon, causing the creek to rise rapidly, authorities said. The creek began to recede after midnight, but the conditions remained dangerous, Police Chief Mark Beckner told the Daily Camera newspaper.
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