Flooding - post your picx

[Tom]

Estes Park


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BT-odjjCcAAR7f9.jpg

[Brucker]

In Boulder

http://dailycamera.smugmug.com/Other/BOULDER-COUNTY-FLOODING-SEPT/i-P5ssBvn/0/M/Flood009-M.jpg

[Brucker]

Hwy 34 near the Dam Store

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BT-YWofCQAAQg2k.jpg

[Tom]

Lyons


www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgRekgv1Tgo&feature=youtu.be

[Rick]

you win......thats crazy

[Jackie]

That is crazy, Tom. The other pics were nuts as well, so thanks to all for posting.

@ Aaron - was that white car in your photo the one that ended upside down with the back door open in the video on 9news.com? (I think it happened on 287 and Dillon where the road washed away).

Wishing everyone good luck weathering this "storm". Hope you're high and dry...

[Rob]

Tom, were you out driving around in that (you nut)?

[alexb]

I work 5 miles from home, but on the opposite side of the St. Vrain River. Normally, it takes me 15 minutes to get home. Today it took me 3 hours.

I've been watching coverage and photos and gathered some that capture what is going on.

Interactive Google Map of floods: http://google.org/crisismap/2013-boulder-floods

Lyons: Completely isolated and trapped. Hwy 7 and 36 are gone leaving Lyons headed West. 66 is flooded headed east. Not sure if 66 is gone, or just temporarily blocked.

McConnel Road gone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XRX5S2tvnk

Hwy 7 gone:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-bej4qEAVqng/UjKM29ziRKI/AAAAAAAAJDk/W_HmMFI3XNc/w554-h399-no/IMG_0135.JPG

US36 gone: Facebook video link: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201964796660842&set=vb.263743636076&type=2&theater

[alexb]

Longmont from the top of the Pratt overpass. The muddy area below is my usual road home, next to the train tracks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMZI7fBn5LQ

[Brucker]

@ Aaron - was that white car in your photo the one that ended upside down with the back door open in the video on 9news.com? (I think it happened on 287 and Dillon where the road washed away).



Nope. Photo of a car in Boulder that I found on the Daily Camera website. Taken around Broadway and Linden Drive (Linden is one light north of Iris on Broadway). It is at the bottom of the hill leading up to my parents place in the foothills above Boulder. This is also the approximate location where they found one of the first deceased victims from this morning.

The place you are referring to is on Dillion just east of 287. Which happens to be about a 1/2 mile from my Brother's place, and 2 or so miles from my sister's place.

Just realized that tomorrow is a Friday the 13th. Seems fitting with all of the carnage.

[alexb]

Flooding around Longmont. You can see Pinochio's and Dollar tree flooding pretty bad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWI6kV6Kjzw

[alexb]

Missouri Street, next to Kanemoto park in Longmont. This is a road you are looking at next to a ditch that was recently made larger to accommodate larger flooding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwb9dWx7XzU

And a couple of snapshots near Sunset and Boston (Isaac Walton Park): https://plus.google.com/u/0/104914982362378886442/posts/dnneuVvbJtK

I'm blown away by this flooding. No water left at the grocery stores, long lines for gas. There are *no* north-south roads open in Longmont that cross the river. You have to go out to I-25 from Longmont (don't take 52 or 119 because they are closed) and head north to 66 to go from South Longmont to North Longmont now. Crazy.

[Tom]

Tom, were you out driving around in that (you nut)?I was just trying to get home from work. Took me 2 1/2 hours. Normally 20 mins. Not my pics or videos. Just some I found to share.

[Brad]

Crazy, hope everyone is ok.

[carpenle]

Wow crazy sounds like a freight train. I heard on the news, if it was snow, it would be over 10ft of snow.

[alexb]

"Residents of south Longmont will find road travel to be extremely difficult as there are no known roads from south Longmont to I-25," Cameron said.


- http://m.timescall.com/tc/db_270335/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=FYJtqoXw

[Tom]

I see blue sky to the West. 11AM

[Backcountryislife]

Sunny up here now... FINALLY.

[dscowell]

No flooding at my house. Other parts of Erie from what I here have not been so lucky. Walked by the Reservoir near my house to find out that the water level is lower then it was before the storm and by a pretty significant amount.

[Jim]

40% clear sky here (1p) and mostly try for cement & asphalt.

[Tom]

Alluvial Fan. RMNP

http://www.nps.gov/romo/planyourvisit/images/roaring_river_flood_2013.jpg

[Rob]

Kind of a flood photo. A friend who lives east of Longmont in Weld sent me this pic of a sodden hawk that apparently was too wet to fly. They moved it into the building in the background to dry off.

[Jim]

Take a drive up US-34 / the Big Thompson Canyon (whole thing's worth a watch)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWGK4CiWxeM

@ 2:11 - the Vistens-Smith Mountain Park - shows the "old" washed out, wrecked turbines from the ?1976? flash flood
@ 3:33 - waterflow down the mountainside
@ 4:33 - rescue in progress - removing folks from a house on one side of the river - driveway bridge washed out
@ 5:10 - crazy videographer walking close to the edge / NEW Honda Van pulled back from the edge of the roadway erosion


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWGK4CiWxeM

[xaza]

Glad to see things moving on. Drove through the start of the storm on our way out of town Wed night, could barely see. Got home last night and hit some heavy rain near Sterling but nothing like Wed. Was really happy to get home and not find my house flooded out. Guess we picked quite a time for taking a vacation.

[Brucker]

Been raining in Longmont for a couple hours now. Fairly hard. Amazing how much moisture the ground already has. Nothing, and I mean nothing is penetrating the soil anymore. It is all just collecting or running off. Could make for a long day.

Even "Loch Brucker" behind the shop has formed again. Filled back up in under 30 mins.

https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1236914_504747936286015_1490345315_n.jpg

[Jim]

Glen Haven

(I wonder what the tight canyon, with a few houses, just a curve or two downstream looks like)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stghpQxrbUQ

FoCo has been in a STEADY, decent amount of rain ALL DAY LONG (started last evening on-n-off). I think all city bridges across the Poudre, except US-287, are closed. 287 was closed a couple days back but it's been re-opened (and I-25 is open). Having at least that bridge open is nice.

[Jim]

Subtle threadjack for Aaron...

[Haku]

Subtle threadjack for Aaron...

I'm not Aaron, but that is because the Toyota axle (as stock) has a square shapped truss on the bottom so the ubolt doesn't have a nice round spot to sit. Even the squared off ubolts have the gap on them, so its a case of "it is what it is". As long as the ubolts are torqued down right, it doesn't seem to negatively effect anything and I never had them come loose, bend, or dent the axle.

[Brucker]

Subtle threadjack for Aaron...

Good eye, yes there is a gap there. It is about 1/4" at it's greatest. The bottom axle truss doesn't have a consistent radius. Stock style u-bolts that have squared off corners don't make enough contact and there is not enough height clearance to run a u-bolt eliminator, so I opted to use a normal u-bolt which made the most amount of contact. It just leaves a gap at its center. I figured they would stretch over time and would require lots of maintenance by needed to be re-tightened all the time. But in the little over two years I have owned it, they have never loosened or stretched enough to even allow a quarter turn of the nut. I will try to take another photo in some better light to show the setup better.

EDIT: Doh, Josh beat me too it

[JFjeld]

Here's a video I shot when I attempted to go to work on Thursday. I live in Frederick/Firestone; this was just 1-2 blocks from my development in No Name Creek. This portion of the road is now washed out and closed. We lost water and electricity a few times, and are currently under a boil advisory, but overall we're very thankful for our lucky outcome. I'm back to work in Longmont today.

http://youtu.be/ib_7GY6td6w


http://youtu.be/ib_7GY6td6w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib_7GY6td6w&feature=youtube_gdata_player)

[Jim]

Received this from Kristy Wumkes / Canyon Lakes & Pawnee partnerships coordinator


We now have an official flood-damage area public closure for both Canyon Lakes and Boulder Ranger Districts. It is in effect until rescinded.

For Canyon Lakes, the closure area boundaries include all NF lands:

· SOUTH of Redfeather Lakes Road 74E and
· EAST of the Boy Scout Road >Pingree HILL Road to Rustic, then continuing along the Pingree Park Road to the Signal Mountain Trail, and all district lands east of Rocky Mountain National Park to the Boulder Ranger District boundary.

[Rob]

BRD is closed east of the Peak to Peak Highway, so it looks like MSV and Coney are still open, but it'd take a long time to get to the trailhead.

[Jim]

I heard that Deadman Road (west of Red Feather) is either open or may open quite soon. Not too many trails up there, but it's one more opening.