"Ophelia" wrote in message ...



"John Kuthe" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 11:21:48 +0100, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
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>>I hope no one here lives there and if they do they are safe
>>
>>Absolutely terrifying
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>>
>>http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news
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>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HShXhJMQdA
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> Yep! That'as a LOTTA rain really fast. Best to stay away from that
> fast moving water if you don't know what you are doing. I saw a video
> of some crazy kayayers acrtually kayakiing a flooded Boulder Creek:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dD817QzDW8
>
> The spectator commebnts at about 3:00 about how to get OUT of the
> creek would be my crucial consideration. The kayaker does surf the
> standing wave pretty well, but then WHEN blown off the wave gets
> washed down VERY fast!
>
> When you know what you are doing in a kayak (like this guy evidently
> does) it's awfully tempting to get out and boat the flood. Hope this
> kayaker was OK. He probably was.

Crazy

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I have never lived through anything like that, but we did have a flood some
years ago--11 inches in 24 hours. Some mobile homes were washed from one
end of town to the other, and one woman drowned when they tried to help her
get out of her window into a boat. I was safe, but I woke up with water
pouring through a ceiling light onto my feet. I ran to the circuit box and
threw off the power. The landlord claimed that I could still have used
electricity, even the light with water pouring through it. Not for me! I
am very leery of water + electricity. Police knocked on the apartment door
next to mine. The man who lived there was a faculty member with ROTC and
had emergency training. They asked him to get his boat out for rescue. He
did that, and he told me afterwards of floating in his boat *over* a bridge
that is usually fairly high above a little creek. He was able to rescue
people who were clinging high up in trees.

Even with what I just said (and the loss of several lives), I can hardly
envision the destruction and fear that would go with a flood such as what
the people in Colorado are facing now. We drove through Big Thompson Canyon
several years after the 1976 flood. The canyon walls were so steep that I
think most people would not be able to get out of the way of fast-rising
water. My prayers and heartfelt wishes are with them.

MaryL