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<br /> <br />From Glenn lny's seat at$e emetgoJcy command post at Fire <br />Station No. I onEastMuJbenyandPettrsonstreeu,thecaJIswereCOming <br />in as fast as the rain was coming down. At 9:16, the side of a house <br />collapsed on South TaftHillRoad.Founninuteslater, the OO5eIDem waJls <br />of anodler home caved in, Three people on South Taft Hill Road were <br />suanded in deep ",',ner in meir driveway. On Hampshire, more people <br />were trapped in can with waterupto~ windows. Theceilingwasgiving <br />way at the C..ampus Westmo\ie theater. Near HughesStadium, a person <br />pleaded for help inside a water~me car while anothervehide floated <br />down a ditch. On Dixon Dam above HorsetooLh Reservoir, a car....':iS <br />caught in a muddy rock slide. <br />1..c:\')'wassendingout rescuen as fastasthecaUswerecomingin, bul <br />atthisnue, he'd soon beoutofpeople. Themajorityof callshad todowith <br />rescuing people from deepwater, so:u.9:34, Levyputolll the page to (he <br />Larimer County Dive Rescue Team. <br />At 9:45, Kirsten Shier got a page from the CSUPD. CaJls were <br />inundating the campus police slation too. ~Get in herel" Dispatcher <br />Miudy Henryimplored. <br />If it weren >t for a call from the .shift commander on duty, CSU <br />Police ChiefDonn HopkUuwouldn 'tha\'e thoughtanythingunusualwas <br />happening in lOWn that Monday night Il was raining al his home in <br />northeastFonCollins, The rain was a wekomechange from theweeksof <br />df)', hotwcatherthalhad characle1ized thesummersofar, butfrom what <br />Hopkins could see. the rain was nothing to write home about <br />Diagonally across town in Quail Hollow, a neighborhood utuated <br />just below the foothills, the rain was pelting down in buckets. Residents <br />scurried, soaked to the skin, trying to help one another get Wd.terout of <br />basemeots.lkfore the nightwdSover,theneighborbood would con<<t J-1 <br />inches in a little over 24 houn. <br />Fh-e milo: east. at T IDlberlineand East Prospect roa.ds. only one inch <br />of moislure had accumulated, <br />Out in his back yard on the northwe5lside, Nolan Doesken told his <br />. . ,,' " <br /> <br />........ ......-l..-l~..~I..~~._ _._._1~__ ~_1.~_. -'-" ... <br /> <br />~ <br />