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Colorado floods: rescuers rush to evacuate stranded communities
2013-09-15 04:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Rescuers broke through to flood-ravaged Colorado towns, issuing a stern warning to anyone thinking of staying behind: leave now or be prepared to endure weeks without electricity, running water and basic supplies. National Guard helicopters and truck convoys carried the message into paralyzed canyon communities where thousands of stranded residents were eager to escape the Rocky Mountain foothills. But not everybody was willing to go. Dozens of people in the isolated community of Jamestown wanted...
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Fifth fatality feared in Colorado floods as towns evacuated
2013-09-15 03:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Colorado authorities warned on Sunday that the death toll likely would rise from historic flooding in the state as a second person was confirmed missing and presumed dead, in addition to four deaths previously verified. An 80-year-old woman whose home was washed away by floodwaters in Larimer County was the latest victim feared dead from the week-long rains, said sheriff's spokesman John Schulz. "The woman was injured and couldn't get out of her house, and when neighbors went back to help her,...
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Amid Drought, Explaining Colorados Extreme Floods
2013-09-14 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: University of Colorado, Boulder law school professor Brad Udall has long written and lectured about water issues in the American West, but this weeks Colorado floods have brought the subject to his doorstep. Four people have lost their lives in flooding this week that has engulfed swaths of Colorado and that has forced thousands to evacuate their homes. Udall, director of the University of Colorado, Boulders Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment says that...
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Four dead in Colorado floods amid rescues, scenes of devastation
2013-09-14 03:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: National Guard troops plucked stranded residents out of danger by helicopter and hauled them out of an inundated community in military trucks on Friday as the death toll from the worst floods to hit Colorado in decades rose to four with 80 people still unaccounted for. Taking advantage of a break in torrential rains that have unleashed floodwaters up and down the state, Guard members rumbled into the hard-hit town of Lyons through waist-high water and went door to door to pull out up to 2,000...
Deadly 1,000-year floods strike Colorado
2013-09-13 18:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Biblical hell has broken out in Colorado, where more than six inches of rain fell in 24 hours, contributing to flash floods that killed at least three people. (Before you complain about our use of "biblical," note that it`s the word federal forecasters chose to describe the flooding in an official update on the National Weather Service website.) "It`s insane right now, I`ve lived in Colorado my whole life, and this is nothing that I`ve ever, ever seen before," Andra Coberly, spokesperson for...
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