Further rain expected as rescue workers use boats and helicopters to reach residents (click here)
September 14, 2013
Relentless rains pounded flood-ravaged eastern Colorado for another day, triggering more evacuations and warnings as rescuers tried to reach thousands of people displaced or stranded by the deluge that has been blamed for at least four deaths.
Flooding
from days of unprecedented rainfall in the semi-arid region has
destroyed homes and closed or washed out bridges and roads from mountain
canyons from metropolitan Denver to the eastern plains.
A
surge from swollen rivers and creeks has flooded downstream farming
counties in northeastern Colorado, prompting the evacuation yesterday of
several towns along the South Platte River...
