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<br />The sky spawned the rains <br />that brought death and des- <br />trucllon to the Big Thomp- <br />son Canyon - butlrom that <br />. same sky came relief. Heli- <br />copters churned through <br />murky clouds delivering <br />lood and supplies and then <br />returned 10 dry land with <br />the Injured and the bewil- <br />dered. <br /> <br />"The thunderstorms were reforming <br />upstream and moving over the basin; <br />after the first one hit, several others <br />followed shortly thereafter," Grace <br />noted. The heaviest rains of 11 y, <br />inches-what we could actually verify- <br />fell in the canyon below Estes Park." <br />As the search continued for more <br />victims of the flooding, the controversy <br />surrounding the balky readout at Limon <br />droned on. <br />Grace confirmed that no flash flood <br />warning was issued for the area ".. .until <br /> <br /> <br />22 <br /> <br />floods had already occurred in the <br />canyon. Our first flash flood warning <br />then was for the lower part of the river <br />from Loveland on down to Greeley." <br />The initial statement issued by the <br />NWS came at 7:35 p.m. on July 31, in <br />the form of a severe thunderstorm <br />warning. <br />"We had attached to that warning a <br />statement that some flooding could be <br />expected in low-lying areas. This was <br />based principally on radar. We did not <br />have out a flash flood warning." <br /> <br />