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<br />As the rains continued, a mobile home park near Gilcrcst suffcred because the normally <br />dry pond in which it was built was filled by a heavy rain - 6 iI/cites iI/ 3 Itours. Farmers whose <br />low-lying land along the South Platte River was usually protected by their agricultural levees <br />found out that a prolonged 10-year to 25-year flow on the river exceeded the capacity of those <br />levees. State Highway 66 near Platteville was significantly damaged when it was under thc South <br />Platte for several days. <br /> <br />Rain in the Arkansas River basin led to flooding in the toym of Wiley two weekends in <br />a row, the most serious event occurring from 3 inches of rain in 2 hours. It also caused damage <br />to flood control facilitics at Las Animas. Meanwhile, the cool and wet weather was delaying the <br />runoff of the heavy snowpack throughout the mountains, <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br /> <br />Outflanked Agricultural Levee a Arkansas River, Prowers County <br />