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<br />one of the wettest of record. Flooding along the Poudre caused <br />$132,500 in total damages in the basin including $5,000 at <br />Greeley. The Fort Collins Express, 17 June 1923, in a dispatch <br />from Greeley stated: <br />'~igh water on the Poudre second only to the flood of 1904, <br />tonight shut off all travel on highways north and west of the <br />city and had driven a score of families from their homes on the <br />lowlands. . Three feet of water has driven tourists from their <br />campground in the bottoms. The Boyd farm northwest of here was <br />entirely under water for the first time since 1884". <br />Flood of May 1930. Rains began in the basin about 3 p.m. <br />on 30 May 1930 and a peak discharge of 6,800 cubic feet per <br />second, at a stage of 9.82 feet, was reached at Livermore on the <br />North Fork Cache la Poudre River at 6 p.m. The flood reached the <br />canyon gage in the Cache la Poudre River at 8:15 p.m., with an <br />estimated discharge of 10,200 cubic feet per second at 7.9 feet <br />gage height. The flood reached Fort Collins at about 10:00 p.m. <br />and lasted approximately two hours. Most of the damage occurred <br />to highways, bridges, and irrigation structures upstream. <br />Flood of 19-23 June 1947. Heavy rains, including 2.7 <br />inches in 1.5 hours at Windsor on 20 June, and melting snow once <br />more caused the Cache la Poudre River to overflow in the Greeley <br />area. Damages were about evenly divided between urban and rural <br />areas. An estimated 200 inhabitants of 100 homes in the flood <br /> <br />18 <br />