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<br />i i <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />-,-.- <br /> <br />PRINCIPAL AREAS 'OF INTENSE RAINFALL. <br /> <br />15 <br /> <br />f <br />r <br />" <br /> <br />Mr. C. F. Burke, manager of the Blue Ribbon ranch, in secs. 2 <br />and 3, T. 21 S" R. 65 W., stated that the storm appeared to come <br />from the northeast and was met by a stonn from the southwest. <br />Mr. J. H. Farris, in see. 34,T,. 21 S" R. 67 W., stated that he <br />tirstnoticed storm clouds in the northeast.' The stonn appearec.l to <br />work to the west on the north side' of, the river, then south and <br />southeast, and when it reached his ra,nch was coming from the north- <br />west. <br />Mr. E. C. Higgins, who lives' at the crossing ot'the Penrose amI <br />Canon City road over Eightmile Creek, 6 miles above, its mouth, <br />gave the most complete account of the stonn. He said the sky had <br />been very cloudy the entire morning of June 3. From the mesa' <br />above his house he ,could see for many miles along tlie eltst face of <br />the Wet Mountain rnnge, which lies south of Arkansas River. A <br />dense bank of black clouds lay along the top and sides of the range <br />during the morning, and about 1 p. m. it dropped down from the <br />mountains and seemed to push out along the mesa top. A similar <br />bank of clouds had hung in the hills to the north, in the c.lirection <br />of Cripple Creek. These clouds gradually dropped lower, und by <br />1 p. m. it started to. rain in the hills;' Between 2.30 and 3 p. m. it <br />_ began to rain at the Higgins ranch, and in a few minutes the rain <br />was pouring down in sheets so continuous that it was impossible to <br />see across the highway lane in front of the house. <br />Mr. Sim Wells, superintendent of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.'s <br />ditch, who lives near the mouth of Rock Creek, stated that at the: <br />point where the creek leaves'the high mesa lands the water came <br />over the edge of the mesa in w:eat sheets for a distance of half a .' <br />mile on each side.' .' ,: <br />..The rain began in 'the foothills north of the narrow mountain valley <br />about 1 p. m. By 3' p. m; it had spread over the upper and midcUe <br />parts of the valley, and between 5 and 7 p. m. it reached the lower <br />, end near Pueblo, On Eightmile, Rush, and Rock creeks the hardest' <br />rain occurred between 3 and 4 p. m.; near,Pueblo it did not OCCllI' until . <br />10 01"11 p. m,' The'rain continued 'with intermissions until after" <br />mid~ight.: ' . . <br /> <br />PRINCIPAL AREAS OF INTENSE RAINFALL. <br /> <br />..: <br /> <br />!; <br /> <br />\, <br />< <br /> <br />The Wcather Uurcau recorus (p. 13) inuicate that for the 48 hoUl's <br />cnllin" Oil the afternoon of .June 4 the rainfall in the drainage basin <br />~ . <br />between Gallon Citv and Pueblo was from 3 to 5 inches and that It was <br />hern-iest in the norlhern part of this area, near Pikes Peak. Within <br />this general region there were smaller areas where the rainfall was <br />very intense but of short duration, . <br /> <br />t, <br />