Shut off the water, please

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Terry
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Shut off the water, please

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Will someone please text or Facebook the folks of a higher power and tell them to shut off our water? We really don't need anymore rain. It's pouring again today.

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Friends have lost everything. It's the next largest air rescue to Katrina. With no end in site.

They are calling it the Biblical Flood. :-(

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My daughter was just two cars behind these vehicals on her way to work. They thought it was just water running over the bridge, when the bridge was already gone. Very sad. She's okay.

This is a creek that is now 1/2 mile wide.

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Dams break (Big Thompson and Little Thompson) and roads are gone. There are many more photos on Timescall.com

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lprof
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Hang on, Terry. Colorado is in my thoughts... as many others, I am hoping for the rain to stop! Now. I am glad that your daughter is okay; surely she was shook up! Incredibly sad... so sorry.
Hang on.
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Terry
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This is our golf course community near where we live. They had to take boats out to safety.

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Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.

At least we have popcorn and beer for a Manning Bowl today.!!!
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Got that call you never want to receive. EVACUATE NOW!

Packed up in 15 minutes and drove to a friends home on higher ground. The ditch 40 feet from our home that flows down from Lyons burst open. A wall of water headed our way. OMG!

Then got a call 30 mins ago that they stopped it and put a temporary fix on it and we can "shelter in". Back home with car packed to the brim and parked on the driveway, not in garage, in case we lose power and can't open the garage door.

It is still pouring rain and has been all day and is suppose to all week.

Please, God, shut off the water!
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lprof
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Terrible! Wishes for all to be safe there!

We once had to leave our home with our months old baby because of a flooding river... terrifying to say the least.

Stay prepared and think those positive thoughts that are so hard to summon right now.
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mbw1024
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Really awful. Stay safe!
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shoemak38
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best of luck hope you get no water in your home
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loria
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oh yuck, i have family in longmont and they were jus allowed back in-- but it is so awful.... Please stay safe.
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Terry
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Loria
Where is your family and can we be of help to them at all? We are still being allowed in our home, but the National Guard on near by. We would be glad to help whoever wherever we can.

It's a war zone here for sure. But those that can are willing to help those that have nothing.

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loria
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Terry, that is so very kind-- i think they are fine at this point-- they were let back in to their neighborhood-- but as i understand it the situation is very much in flux. I really hope that the rain stops and there is some relief very soon.
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Tracy in WI
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What a mess - I really hope and pray that the rains have subsided. Now comes a large mess to clean up. I had heard earlier reports of 500 people unaccounted for, then the shooting in DC took place so news coverage shifted. Hoping those people were just unable to be reached and are actually okay. My thoughts continue with you all.
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The pictures and videos are hard to wrap your head around-so much devastation :( The roads that are completely gone-can't even begin to think how that will all get rebuilt.
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Florida Girl
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Terry, I'm so sorry to hear the news coming out of Colorado recently! Here in SW Florida we've had about 40" of rain this year, but Florida is more prepared for that kind of deluge! Keeping you in my thoughts and hoping this will all subside soon and allow people to begin cleaning up and getting their lives back.
Terry
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Thank you all for your kind thoughts and wishes.

It is far reaching. We were very fortunate to have a dry house, but our storage unit, where all my husbands tools and daughters furniture and belongings is a total loss. Four feet of water from the St. Vrain. What is left is now in our garage and it stinks.

But this is nothing compared to people that have lost loved ones, homes, everything! And our State is cut off everywhere by roads that don't exist any longer. Colorado is not the same.

This is nothing we've been through before. It really makes one think about an emergency plan and getting rid of "stuff".

Winter is approaching us and getting the infrastructure back is #1 priority. There are still lots of towns without water, utilities, power, roads, etc.

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Major highway into our town.






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