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<br />LOCALJRE(iIONAL <br /> <br />a.i~'!?fa0p;w . <br /> <br />Moncay, Augus: 10. 1987 <br />-- <br /> <br />--, <br /> <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Rains flood north Weld <br /> <br />F'IGI-IT: Tom Osman. left, and Joe Martin use pitchforks today to clear <br />an irrigation ditch clogged by debris. <br />lOP: Homer McDaniel shovels muck off his driveway on Priddy <br />/-venU8. "It was liKe the Arkansas River out here last nighl," he said. <br />.!,BClVE: Larry Sadeck cleans UD his yard. His fence was knocked <br />COWl by :he force of tne wa~er on Shaler Avenue in east Pierce. <br /> <br />-, .; ~. <br /> <br />STORM {FROM PAGEA1 <br /> <br />City folk don't know how to handle <br />fbods." <br /> <br />Six workers spent the whole da)' <br />tcda~' pumping water Qut of the <br />pits ,md scale at the Pierce Grain <br />~Icnlor. <br /> <br />~'Jane Anderson, secretary at the <br />~lev2tor, said she doesn't know <br />now much damage the water <br />c,;used but it probably ruined a <br />load t)f wheaL that was in one of the <br />pits. <br /> <br />"We have water in everything," <br /> <br />.... <br /> <br />'-,~ " <br /> <br />she said. "It will probably be the <br />rest of the day before we know <br />much else." <br />.. . Joanne Turner, v."hose husband . <br />manages the mobile home park, <br />said her basement has about four <br />feet of water in it. <br />. "It probably got about six feet <br />deep, but it dropped, ,. she said. <br />Some areas of Pierce were hit <br />worse than others, said Lanny <br />Clary, chief of the Ault-Pierce <br />Fire Department. <br />"Il was kind of weird." <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />fl!', <br /> <br />. <br />