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<br />COLORADO FLOODING
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<br />. . . . . . RockyMountain News
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<br />Ft1.. Aug. 1. 1997-
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<br />CSU'ihustles to. save books.
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<br />Lo~~e~ runless than
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<br />By Bill Sc.anlon
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<br />:f ',:tl',IC<;tudent') dt Colorado St,lle University clcan the lTlud from instnlments Thursday in Fort
<br />. ,H: CI ,!Iw.~ Wlnrllll',frUlI1ent<; v.llued ,:It thousands of doll.us were lost in flooding Mond~y night.
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<br />Seed cache
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<br />'World's food supply'
<br />reported safe and dry
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<br />FORT COWNS - The "Fort
<br />~ox of the world's food supply"
<br />IS safe and dry after the Spring
<br />Creek flood.
<br />The Xational Seed Storage
<br />Laboratory contains seeds from
<br />250.000 of the rarest and most
<br />commercially valuable plant Vari4
<br />eties on the planet. inclUding
<br />thousands of v.ild and cultivated
<br />strains of wheat. rice and corn.
<br />. The lab is on the Colorado .
<br />-'stafe lJriiversit;';Ca:mpusadjac'enf---'-- i-
<br />to the railroad' track that a mile .
<br />away failed to hold back a 20-foot
<br />wa"e of storm water late ~1ondav.
<br />The wave decimated a pair 'of
<br />mobile home parks, killing five
<br />people. and caused $50 million in
<br />damage on the CSU campus,
<br />Telephone senice to the seed
<br />lab. remained knocked out:
<br />We~nesday. but none of the cap.
<br />pucmo.colored floodwater sct:>ped
<br />into the specially reinforced lab,
<br />"No water leaked into the
<br />vaults, not even the lowest
<br />level:' said Acting Director Leigh
<br />~\'ill. "If water flowed through
<br />tht outer doors, it would have to
<br />rise 20 feet in order to cnter the
<br />,'ault door."
<br />The sC'l'd lab, founded in 19;i..Q.
<br />was expanded and renovated
<br />. thn't' yelP.' ;tgo to hold 1 million
<br />sl'cd varietit.'s in ::::afcr conditions,
<br />St.'cds from nearly ev~ry nation
<br />~lre sta.:ked' in .:cilin~-high l.:old
<br />sttlra~e \'aults or frozen in cham.
<br />hers of liquid nitro~cn to
<br />temperatures as ItlW as minus-
<br />:l:!U d\'R;n'c:-;. The secds are sup-
<br />po:-;ed to rcnum viable for :!OU
<br />no;u's In Ihl' intcnst.". tin' cold.
<br />- ~t(\st of tht.o sceds in storal\t:;;
<br />;Ifl.' hcirlnoms from .1 bygune era
<br />- thl.' rin;lllink in thtO J~ril..'u1turJI
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<br />Reyes, 36. 3,., ,
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<br />ling Wednesday \
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<br />Drop everything'
<br />Within minute
<br />in his living n:
<br />F1Oodv.~ter :llrea
<br />depth of 9 inches
<br />"and it was rising_
<br />"We grabbed !
<br />dog and <<It and k
<br />Giving the see
<br />he saw a handm;
<br />chest bobbing in
<br />held \ideotapes
<br />the childreno
<br />mementos. but
<br />time to take it v.i'
<br />"It 'WaS like a 1
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<br />Reyes and hi
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<br />Kelli Reyes. part
<br />He and se\'t
<br />turned Th=dal
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<br />was bad. but pl
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<br />it would happen'
<br />was like a dre.lI1l
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