Three people are dead and hundreds have been evacuated after torrential rains have deluged the Colorado Front Range.
Widespread rainfall totals of 5-7 inches in 24 hours have fallen in the region, causing streams to swell while generating rockslides and mudslides.
In Boulder, a Flash Flood Emergency was hoisted overnight and the campus of the University of Colorado is shut down. Four hundred students were forced to evacuate, the Associated Press reports.
“This is almost certainly the heaviest 24-hour rain in Boulder history,” says Bob Henson of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, which is also closed today due to the flooding.
The cooperative observing station in Boulder logged 6.42 inches of rain since last night. Boulder has received almost 10 inches of rain this month, the most on record for September.
“September 2013 appears also to be the wettest month in Boulder weather history, surpassing 9.59″ in May 1995,” says John Brown, one of the observing station managers, and a scientist at NOAA.
Video of Boulder Creek flooding
The Associated Press says Boulder Police received multiple reports of flooded basements, homes, and streets, as well as submerged cars. Numerous roads are closed.
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