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Central 70 construction company blames faulty drain system for floods
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An automatic pump system that was supposed to drain large amounts of water from Colorado’s state-of-the-art Central 70 highway corridor failed Sunday night, trapping dozens of drivers in their cars during a flash flood. Denver firefighters rescued 29 people, 11 of whom were stranded along the reworked two-mile stretch of highway. No one was injured.…
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National planning organization bestows top honor on Colorado for disaster-recovery Resiliency Framework
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The state of Colorado has been awarded a Gold 2017 National Planning Achievement Award for Environmental Planning from the American Planning Association for the state’s Resiliency Framework, established to help communities rebound after suffering disasters, the APA announced Wednesday. After the state faced widespread floods and wildfires earlier in the decade, the Colorado Resiliency and Recovery…
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Al Gore, disaster responders weigh impact of climate crisis: ‘We’ve never seen this before’
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Although he might be better groomed and more sharply dressed, close your eyes and former Vice President Al Gore sounds for all the world like an Old Testament prophet, ringing the alarm over impending floods, fires and pestilence. Only instead of wielding stone tablets and a staff, Gore conveys his warnings with handouts and a…
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Obama visits flood-damaged Louisiana in show of support
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Standing amid piles of waterlogged debris, President Barack Obama on Tuesday promised a sustained national effort to rebuild flood-ravaged southern Louisiana “even after the TV cameras leave” on a visit aimed in part at stemming campaign-season criticism that he’s been slow to respond to the disaster. As he toured a battered neighborhood and spoke to…
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Trump in Louisiana to survey floods as Manafort resigns
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Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence were in Louisiana Friday to survey the flood damage that killed at least 13 people and displaced thousands more. The visit comes amid an ongoing staff shakeup. Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigned Friday following revelations about his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine. In a statement, Trump praised Manafort’s work…
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40 years later: Scores killed in Big Thompson Flood
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A year’s worth of rain fell in 70 minutes. Clouds piled 12 miles into the mountain sky unleashed a deluge on July 31, 1976, setting off the most powerful flood since glaciers retreated 10,000 years ago. The chaos along an otherwise trickling Big Thompson River killed 144 people, five of whom were never found, and…
