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<br />Thompson tore its own <br />way through Drake <br /> <br />The Big Thompson River had provided the ideal mountain. <br />streamside setting for vacationers and residents of Drake before <br />the July 31 flood. <br />Afterwards, the rampaging river I swollen by torrential rain, <br />setUed in a route of its own making, tearing away trees, dirt, <br />homes and parts of U.S. 34-sweeping away lives and leaving a <br />silt-covered wasteland at the bottom of the canyon. <br />The dotted line shows the original route of the river-a <br />dramatic example of the destructive power of rushing flood- <br />water. <br /> <br />Before <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />L <br />I <br /> <br />'.;...,...... <br />..<O~~l~, <br /> <br />A bridge in"'the Narrows. . <br /> <br />1:,... <br /> <br />PflotollY'Tl'dendLOlf,MoI_ <br /> <br />August 1976 <br /> <br />Fort Collins Coloradoan 15 <br /> <br />... <br /> <br />and after <br /> <br /> <br />Photo by u.s. "or"ISHv~ <br /> <br />. . . is left without 0 rood, surrounded by wafer <br /> <br />;~'-:-I;.~_..<" ;:!::':..;. ~:. __.-~; ...,~~ --" <br />~~~,~,;~>- .:....~~ . -.......- <br />~.~".-...'%~.'k .'~.', ."~"'" <br />. ~ ~....~ .' ~""".'" ~ <br />- ---.......~ "';:f~c.~ <br /> <br />. ~...,~ <br /> <br />~ <br />""" <br /> <br />... <br /> <br />PhcIfoby Ted.nd LoItMII_ <br />looking west-up ;,to the Narrows <br /> <br />--.... <br />