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On the night of July 28, 1997, up to 14.5 inches of rain fell on Fort Collins in 31 hours. Spring Creek left its channel. Five people died, roughly 200 homes were destroyed and about 1,500 homes and businesses were damaged. A railroad embankment overtopped and...
Loveland has a relationship with the Big Thompson that most cities don't have with their river. In 1976, a wall of water came down the canyon in one of the deadliest floods in Colorado history. In September 2013 it happened again — less catastrophic, still enormous....
In September 2013, the South Platte and the Poudre came up together and Greeley and Evans took the worst of it in Weld County. County officials estimated roughly 2,900 residential properties were impacted. Hundreds of residents were displaced. It was described at the...
It's the middle of a summer thunderstorm. Rain is pounding the side of your house, and you hear it — a gurgling sound from the basement. You go downstairs and find water pouring in through the basement window. The window well outside has filled up like a bathtub, and...
July in Northern Colorado means long sunny mornings — and violent afternoon storms that can flood your home before dinner. Welcome to monsoon season. It happens every year along the Front Range, and July is the peak. The North American Monsoon pushes warm,...
If you've lived in Northern Colorado for even one summer, you know the pattern. Clear blue skies in the morning. Clouds building over the Rockies by noon. And by mid-afternoon, a wall of rain, hail, and lightning rolling across the Front Range. It's dramatic. It's...