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<br />I <br /> <br />7NEWS Storm Chasers Capture Flash Flood, High-Water Rescue - Print This Story News... Page lof2 <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />TheDenverCha n nel.com <br /> <br />7NEWS Storm Chasers Capture Flash <br />Flood, High-Water Rescue <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Floods Cause Damage In Northeast Colo., Southwest Neb. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Weather Producer/Meteorologist Chris Soears <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />POSTED: 6:16 pm MDT ,June 12,2007 <br />UPDATED: 8:25 am MDT June 13, 2007 <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />DENVER -- After two days of heavy rain across northeast <br />Colorado and southwest Nebraska, residents are looking <br />forward to some sunshine. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Slow-moving thunderstorms dropped heavy rain across the <br />region on Monday and Tuesday, with many locations <br />picking up in excess of 3 inches of precipitation. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Related To Story <br /> <br /> <br />JUNE FLOODING <br /> <br />. Raw Video: Heavy Flooding <br /> <br />. Raw Video: Stranded Woman Makes <br />Esca pe <br /> <br />A weather observer near Amherst, Colo., in Phillips <br />County, recorded 4.88 inches of rain within a few hours on Monday night. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Two-day rain totals topped 7 inches across eastern Phillips County. A weather station 3 miles south of <br />Venango, Neb. recorded 8.20 inches ofrain between Monday and Tuesday. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Water up to 5 feet deep closed Highways 23 and 6 in both directions east of Holyoke on Tuesday. <br /> <br />A portion of the railroad tracks along County Road 51 was washed away by flood waters in eastern Phillips <br />County. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Heavy rains also fell in Logan and Sedgwick counties in northeast Colorado, where field flooding was <br />reported. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Officials in both counties were monitoring area streams and rivers for additional flood threats. <br /> <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />Portions of southwest Neb. were also hit hard by flooding rains. <br /> <br />7NEWS Storm Chaser Tony Laubach documented a flash flood Monday evening while chasing storms in <br />Imperial, Neb. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />On Tuesday, Laubach and his fellow storm chaser, Jon Van de Grift, found a woman attempting to escape a <br />vehicle stranded in rising flood waters in Ogallala, Neb. <br /> <br />The motorist was able to climb out of the car's window and wade through knee-deep waters to Van de <br />Grift's SUV. <br /> <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />Ogallala streets looked more like rivers on Tuesday as nearly 3 inches of rain fell. Most streets had upward <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />http://www.thedenverchannel.com/print/13492081/detail.html <br /> <br />6/20/2007 <br />