I awoke this morning to the phone ringing at 5:45. It was
the Assisted Living facility that my mother-in-law lives in. The entire first
floor is underwater. It has been raining in Colorado for 4 days. That is
unheard of. We are practically a desert
here. Average rainfall for this area is around 15 inches in an entire year: we've
had 12 inches (and more) in the last 3 days. This has not been one of those
flash flood types of events (although some places have had a bit of that); it
has been just a steady rise of water. My wife and I want to go get her mother.
We can’t
The roads are all closed.
I can’t get to my office either. There are about 4 different
ways that I can drive from my home to my office. But they all pass over the
Poudre River. I tried all four this morning. The river that is usually about 10
to 15 feet across is as much as 50 to 100 feet across. The bridges are still
intact, but they won’t let us drive over them.
When things like this happen, perspective changes. I had a
lot of urgent things I had to do today. Not so much now. Now we need to try and
make sure those we love are safe.
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