"MaryL" > wrote in message
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> "Ophelia" wrote in message ...
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> "John Kuthe" > wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 11:21:48 +0100, "Ophelia"
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>>>I hope no one here lives there and if they do they are safe
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>>>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:
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dD817QzDW8
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>> 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!
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.

Yes! I've never had to live through what you describe!

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