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<br /> <br />Dany Gazette, M!)n~. June 21, 1965, Rocky Ford* Colo. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Holly was one of the volley's hardest hit areas. <br />This view looking northwest toward town shows. <br />everything south of the tracks completely flooded <br />and most of the area north of the tracks got an <br />average of six incbes of water. Bisecting the photo <br />near the elevators is Santa Fe Railway with trains <br />held up when tracks between Lamar and Holly wash. <br />ed out in Friday's ,flood. Hiway 50 just north af the <br />tracks and running parallel was badly washed at <br />H911y and completely washed out in several places <br />between Lamar and Holly. Huge chunks of the pav. <br />ing could be' seen washed into borrow pits and <br />nearby fields. Two hiway bridges washed out be- <br />\ween Lamar and Holly but the railroad bridges did <br />not. However tracks were twisted off their grades <br />and thrown over into rights of way'by the floods. <br /> <br />Figure 1. HISTORIC FLOOD SCENE--June 1965 <br /> <br />App. 4 <br />8 <br />