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| Three dead, thousands evacuated |
| Three dead, thousands evacuated in Colorado flooding
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 13-September-2013
6:32:35 AM |
| Rare torrential downpours unleashed flash flooding in Colorado that killed at least three people, left one missing and forced thousands to flee to higher ground on Thursday as rising water toppled buildings and stranded motorists, officials said.
The unusually heavy late-summer rains drenched Colorado's biggest urban centers, stretching 130 miles (210 km) along the eastern slopes of the Rockies from Fort Collins near the Wyoming border south through Boulder, Denver and Colorado Springs.
"There is water everywhere," said Andrew Barth, emergency management spokesman in Boulder County, which bore the brunt of tropical-like rains one meteorologist called unprecedented. "We've had several structural collapses. There's mud and muck and debris everywhere. Cars are stranded all over the place."
The city of Boulder and a string of other towns nestled along the so-called Front Range of the Rockies north of Denver were especially hard hit as floodwaters streamed down rain-soaked mountainsides and spilled through canyons that funneled the runoff into populated areas below.
"The street was like a river, and I knew it was time to go," said Kitty Kintzing, 65, who fled her ground-floor apartment at the mouth of Boulder Canyon on Thursday morning and took shelter at an American Red Cross facility in town.
"I've never seen anything like this," said Kintzing, an artist who has lived in Boulder, a city of roughly 97,000 people northwest of Denver, since 1969.
President Barack Obama approved a federal disaster assistance request, which will release funds to help with emergency protection, Governor John Hickenlooper's office said late on Thursday.
National Guard troops were dispatched with emergency supplies to the remote town of Lyons, north of Boulder, which was virtually cut off from surrounding areas when floodwaters washed out U.S. Route 36, county officials said.
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