Tag: flash flood
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Weather blog: Second day of flash flood warnings issued for El Paso, Teller counties
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The National Weather Service in Pueblo on Wednesday announced a second day of flash flood warnings, following an eight-hour flood warning on Tuesday. The flood warnings are in effect in El Paso and Teller counties until 10 p.m. The weather service put out an emergency…
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Weather alert: Flash flood warnings issued for El Paso and Teller counties
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The National Weather Service in Pueblo issued a flash flood warning for El Paso and Teller counties until 9 p.m. on Tuesday, and as many as 3 inches of rain could fall in the area by Thursday. The weather service said the flood warnings are…
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Southern Colorado Boy Scouts camp survived ‘terrifying’ flash flood
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Eleven years after flash flooding forced the overnight evacuation of Spanish Peaks Scout Ranch near Walsenburg, Shelly Salley-Jarrett still recalls the “terrifying” nature of the ordeal. Salley-Jarrett was the camp director in 2014 at Spanish Peaks, a Boy Scouts camp that served kids from Kansas…
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Southern Colorado Boy Scouts camp survived ‘terrifying’ flash flood
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Eleven years after flash flooding forced the overnight evacuation of Spanish Peaks Scout Ranch near Walsenburg, Shelly Salley-Jarrett still recalls the “terrifying” nature of the ordeal. Salley-Jarrett was the camp director in 2014 at Spanish Peaks, a Boy Scouts camp that served kids from Kansas…
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Mudslides close several Colorado highways, kill one
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Mudslides killed at least one and closed several highways throughout Colorado Tuesday and Wednesday as the state entered monsoon season. Drivers should prepare for road closures and other traffic-disrupting weather through at least next week, Colorado Department of Transportation officials said, as monsoonal rains that…
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Flash flood warnings, closures for several Colorado burn scars
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Western Colorado saw flash flooding near several burn scars as rain and thunderstorms continued throughout the state Wednesday, causing I-70 to be closed for several hours. I-70 opened back up at around 8:20 p.m. on Wednesday after Colorado Department of Transportation crews removed two small mudslides…