More Colorado Fall Foliage

All photos taken this week in Colorado:

Copper Mountain

Four Mile Creek

Grand County

Kenosha Pass

Rand

Shagwa Lake

Salina, Colorado Clean-Up Photos

These photos were taken yesterday, 9 November, by Jeremy Papasso, a photo-journalist for The Boulder Daily Camera newspaper.  They show the clean up efforts that volunteers and residents performed in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, almost two months after the historic 100 Year Flood in September.  Just a reminder that we are still digging out and cleaning up out here...

Volunteer Oren Gordon helps clear out flood debris from the bed of Four Mile Creek near Gold Run Road in Salina.

Resident Eric Stevens (left, with chain saw) is assisted by volunteer Paul Rockwood, from the Mormon's Helping Hands LDS group, clearing the creek bed.

Volunteers gather tree debris and trash from a flood path area in Salina.

Two hours work resulted in this pile of debris along Gold Run Road in Salina.

Volunteer Vicki Reynolds drags a tree limb  to a debris pile for pick-up, in Salina on Saturday.

Boulder Colorado Post-Flood Photos - Topaz Drive, One Week After the Flood Waters Hit

The Echols' house at Topaz and 26th Street (see yesterday's flood photo)

East end of Topaz Drive; the water pushed the shed through a fence and hedge

What's left of Topaz Drive, proceeding west from 26th

We're still being covered by television news

The natural gas line that supplies Topaz Drive

Topaz Drive is on this side of the mud berm

Some of the fill, where residents are using silt and mud to fill in the rift in Topaz

Sarah Hallowell's driveway, just to the east of Four Mile Creek

Four Mile Creek is back within its' banks on the east side of my sister's property

Topaz Drive, looking west past Kathy and Jim's house

All of the above photos were taken today, Thursday, 19 September 2013 about 9:30 in the morning.  Four Mile Creek over-flowed its' banks at 8:20 p.m. on Wednesday, 11 September, and spread out to the east, covering 6 square blocks...  Four Mile Creek is a seasonal creek, and is usually dry 40 weeks of the year.

Boulder Colorado's 100-Year Flood

We got more than 14 inches of rain in less than 3 days.  I am living in an apartment on Boulder Creek - on the north end of two rectangular buildings.  The flood waters stopped 100 feet from my apartment.  I am currently house-sitting at my sister and brother-in-law's house in North Boulder.  They have the Silver Lake Irrigation Ditch running through their back yard, and Four Mile Creek runs on the east side of the property.  The Creek started flooding Wednesday night.  I evacuated my cats from the apartment to the house on Thursday.  Four Mile Creek jumped its' banks, joined the irrigation ditch, and ran rampant through the neighborhood, but did not get more than 90 feet of the house and garage.  We were very lucky and very blessed.  A lot of people have 6 feet of water in their basements - the apartment building, on the south end, had 6 inches of Boulder Creek inside.   I know people who have lost possessions, but, thankfully, only four lives have been lost due to the flooding.