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<br />The flash flood warning was issued at <br />11 p.m., "after we started getting some <br />feedback," Grace said. <br />Grace said that while the broken <br />transmitter may have slowed the <br />issuance of a warning to the flood area, <br />it may not have made much difference. <br />He said he was not convinced "that <br />indications would have been that there <br />would be a flash flood in the Big <br />Thompson Canyon. The Limon radar <br />didn't show anything that intense, and <br />we work on intensity. <br /> <br />"It wasn't that bad, although it was <br />played up by the media," Grace added. <br />"We still had a hotline out to the radar <br />and we talked to the operator and he <br />researched it for us. We do this <br />normally anyway, in spite of the readout <br />we have." <br />"It slowed us down a bit, but it was <br />not that critical. Perhaps we could have <br />gotten things out a little sooner, but I <br />don't know if they would have been any <br />better. It could have made some <br />difference, but we're talking about only <br /> <br />a few minutes actually involved at the <br />most," Grace said. <br />He said the radar was being <br /> <br />BELOW: The most unusual sights became <br />commonplace on Sunday morning <br />following the disaster. This car, after <br />being carried for some distance by the <br />force of the water, was dumped uncere- <br />moniously on the bank of the receding <br />river. Note the mud line on the house at <br />left In the background. <br /> <br />