Colorado weather...yep, going nuts again...

[dreinecke]

I've had a few emails of folks that have seen the news asking how close the flooding is to us. Luckily, while we have had several inches of rain in about 36 hours, Monument is fine. Colorado Springs and the Ute Pass area have had some serious issues due to the Waldo Canyon burn scar, but Denver and the surrounding areas...well, it ain't pretty.

I commute to Golden, just west of Denver. My office is a stone's throw from I-70 where it heads into the mountains. Absolutely crazy. I have driven through over a foot and a half of water on my work's property the last two days from overflowing culverts. Estes Park is apparently a disaster and parts of Boulder and Lyons really bad too. When they close overpasses due to flooding it is always a crazy thing.

Where was this in June when we were burning down?

Hope everyone else out there in the area is safe!

[FootScoot]

David it seems to be either feast or famine. It's like we never get what we need when we need it. :(

[Ember]

Glad to hear that you and yours are safe David. A shame to hear that others are not.

The craziness is everywhere though, I am afraid. In the last couple of days Hobart, Tasmania have been dealing with some decent snowfalls at the very same time that the areas around Sydney are sweltering through extremely early fire danger. A couple of fires have been raging in the Blue Mountains National Park region already. And here, somewhere in between the two of them, have had strong and damaging winds.

[bkrownd]

Glad I'm not still in my old place on Boulder Creek right now...

[HomeRacingWorld]

Very bad it appears. Glad you are ok. Keep us posted.

[dreinecke]

[bkrownd]

Hmmm, my current street runs alongside a massive flood diversion flume built after this happened to our neighborhood:



Never know when the skies will dump on you. :o