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<br />Elsewhere around the state on this date, heavy weather caused rock and mudslides plus <br />snow which closed Mt, Evans Road. Colorado Hwy, 14 was closed near Ted's Placc <br />northwest of Fort Collins because of high water. Among the heaviest rain recorded on <br />this date was more than 3 inches in northern Elbert County; 3,52 inchcs about 3 miles <br />west of Loveland; 2.59 inches 2 miles west of Fort Collins; 2,5 inches at Horsctooth <br />Reservoir in Larimer County; 2 inches of rain and high water on Interstate 25 in Douglas <br />County; 1.75 inches of rain in 1.25 nours 6 miles northeast of Boulder. Strect flooding <br />was reported west of Loveland and in Fort Collins. There was also a rockslide near <br />LaPorte in Larimer County, <br /> <br />AUl:ust <br /> <br />August 1 - The month began with a bang. A gully washer pounded Idaho Springs on <br />Monday afternoon, August 1 beginning about I: 15 p.m, and lasting 45 minutes. About <br />an inch of rain fell in the area accorcling to Bill Ray of the NWS in Denver. Volunteers <br />teamed with employees of the city, Clear Creek County and the state to fill 1,000 <br />sandbags along creeks that flow through town, A foot-deep morass of rocks and mud <br />washed down Virginia Canyon damaging 8 homes, The rocks and debris backed up pipes <br />and culverts that normally direct water off roads, <br /> <br />Mudflow cascades into town <br /> <br />Crews fill sandbags. operate <br />plows to help Idaho Springs <br />cope with downpour's fallout <br />By""...... <br />RodryMouNuinN_SlaffWri/er <br />A gully washer pounded Idaho Springs <br />Monday afternoon, sending mudflows <br />streaming through the steep streets of <br />the mountain town. <br />After weeks of dry weather, theraill- <br />storm camped over the town lor 45 min- <br />utes beginni.ng around 1:15 p.m., Mayor <br />BIll MacysaJd. <br />"Mud and rocks were coming down <br />into lhe streets and the yards and the <br />doorways," Macy said., "Mud was every_ <br /> <br />where." <br />No injuries WC!Ie reported, and no <br />homes had to be vacated because of the <br />nash Oood,hesaid. But Virginia Canyon <br />Road was (:losed for a while, and mud- <br />slides weft~ reported on Interstate 70 <br />near the to\^'ll. <br />About an inch of rain fell in the area <br />during that ,frantic 45 minutes. according <br />to radar estimates. said meteorologist <br />Bill Ray ofthe National Weather Service <br />in Denver. <br />Afterthedownpour.itdrUzledforthe <br />rest of the afternooll,Macy said. <br />The maypr said about 30 volunteers <br />teamed wjtb employees of the city, Clear <br />Creek County and the state to fiU 1,000 <br />sandbags a1(mg creeks that flow thtough <br />the mining tvwn35mileswestof~~~e.t <br /> <br />"It was quite outstanding the way <br />people turned out to help," Macy said. <br />Snowplows were called out to push <br />the mud off streets, said Mike Richards, <br />an employee Ht the Colorado Depart- <br />ment of Transportation's maintenance <br />depot. <br />"The mud ;md rocks were coming <br />down onto eVE:rything," Richards said. <br />"It was thick mud, but we've got most of <br />it pushed out." <br />Thedeluge.l~aysaid, reilecteda typi. <br />cal late-summer weather pattern: <br />"storms that sit and move very slowly." <br />"That's how they can get llash ilood. <br />ingin these cr,eeks, particulMly in the <br />mountain areas,"he said. <br /> <br /> <br />~IoTtloo.n'orPO'lIT_""'1Noy <br />DRY CREEK: Kelly Babeon catche. a sandbag Ilood support olong VirgInia Creek nE,er Idaho <br />tossed down to him nvolunleers hustle to put In Springsye.terday.- , <br />