Monday, May 18, 2015

Weld County Road 5 Closed Because of Flood Damage

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Flooding can happen with sustained low rates of rainfall. May rainfall for the Morrison foothills area was 2.72 inches.  2.36 inches is forecast over the next 10 days which will certainly produce flooding. If we get a sudden warmup in June that sends snowmelt rushing down from the mountains, there could be major flooding this year. If a major upslope event followed that we could see a catastrophic event like the June, 1965 floods.

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