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<br />Residents cope with losses 6 months after devaStation
<br />By Dave Curtin boat.
<br />DenVIll' !'oat Slllff Wrtt9l' "I had a feeling that Mike would be on
<br />FORT COIl.INS - Six months after a that boat," she said. ,
<br />killer nood rippt'd through this lown, lak- ThOSf' were carefree days in 1961 on
<br />ing five lives and damaging or df'Stroying Lake Ogallala. Nl'b., where a romance was
<br />2,000 homes and 212 blL'lint'S!leS, its legacy born.. .~
<br />conUnut>S In painful and unPIpt'C'ted ways .. Deverly and Mike married 18 months
<br />for n-sidt'nts. I lat.Pr. They moved to Fort Collins in 1967,
<br />Most o( the city's physical scan h<4ve, 'and raised their family there.
<br />bealed (rom the $200 million swath of de-. ~ Mike CampbPlI had a lust for life, rarely
<br />slructlon. Rut emotional wounds linger.l missing an opportunity to go camping,
<br />Perhaps there's no more dramatic ex. boating, motorcycle riding _ even drag
<br />ample than the suicide of longtime Fort racing.
<br />Collins" businessman Mike Campbell, who ~ Por 30 years, he was a respected _ and
<br />killed him<>elf Aug. 6, nine days after the . . ambitious - businessman in Fort Collins.
<br />July 28 flood destroyt'd Ule liquor store he Ife followl"d in his faUw-r's footsteps as the
<br />had bought thr('(' months earlier. owner of a music store, Campbell's Piano ;,~ :';0. ~~ ~
<br />IIis family, like so many in Fort Collins, and Organ, and he was an independl'nt in. .. '.:
<br />is still trying 10 pick up the pieces of the surance agent. In the final months of his" ::. The o,n-- POSII John PliMo
<br />flood's festering aftermath. life, he bought Johnny's Liquor at.'Prospect The CSU campus has come a long way In Its flood.recovery efforts. Morgan L1.
<br />"The kids lost not just a father, but a Road and CoII~ge ~venue, in tbe center of brary, hit hard by the flooding, now has a concrete retaining wall in the back.
<br />frlt'nd,"Camphell's wife, Bevt'rly, said last town near a tncklmg crt'l'k. ' II . " I, I' .
<br />wf't'k. Two sons, Seott and Stephen, lIvt" in "The flood was the bt"ginning of the end pressive," DevefIy Campbell said. "But he away like tin cans. Five people drowned.,.
<br />[)(onvl'r. A daughter, Christine, lives in GIl- of Mike. 11 was the final blow:' Beverly st'arted feeling; t&<>tter and ::'i'orking hardE'r. "In a two-minute timE: frame, there was
<br />letle, Wyo. .... _ Camplwll said. lie was having 'food days. a train derallll1t'nt, a natural.gas explosion
<br />Beverly Maddox and Mike Campbell Earlier in the year""; in a period of 'Tht"-n the rains came: UI,l, inches in 24 and hundreds of pl:'ople screaming'for
<br />grew up a block from each other In Sidney, thrPe days - Mike Campbell learned that hours. Spring Cr('c>k, normally the width of lJelp," said Glenn Levy, the city'semergen-
<br />Neb., but it wasn't until C1Jllegt; that she ". his wift" and daughter-In-law had caRl'er a desk top, $welled to 100 yards wide. At cy managl'r. ". _ ,
<br />finally summoned the C1Jurage to ask for a and that his granddaughter was born blind. 11 p.m, op a Monday night, a wall of water J _
<br />ride on lh: Ca.mpbell tamlly wate~\skll~g .I,- ".f'" after, be ~~s diagnOSf'd manic dt.'-w;'f'~,_1f)2 fN't high ,wept l1?,!",obile pomes . ~~, ,,1. ~!ease s~e FLOOD.~B
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