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To: TimF who wrote (739992)	9/17/2013 2:25:14 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574483

"As is typical of Colorado storms, some parts of the state were hard hit and others were untouched. Still, this storm is ranking in the top ten extreme flooding events since Colorado statehood," said Nolan Doesken, State Climatologist at CSU. "It isn't yet as extreme or widespread as the June 1965 floods or as dramatic as the 1935 floods but it ranks right up there among some of the worst.”

To: TimF who wrote (739992)	9/17/2013 2:35:47 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1574483

There is a condition in Colorado we call "Up Slope" which is the reverse of the typical weather pattern and which ALWAYS brings some wild and wet weather. It's not typical but people who've lived here for a few decades have experienced it more than once. Typically we get our wet weather from the Pacific North West. It flows over the mountains and moves East across the plains. Up slope weather involves wet clouds moving up (Denver is a mile high and before you get to the mountains) from the gulf area clashing with a cool front and being trapped against the foot hills of the Rocky Mountains. There it dumps until the system peters out. We usually see it in the winter and we can get an unusually deep snow fall on those occasions. Normally the deep stuff is restricted to the Mountains. My oldest daughter has a job managing metro drainage projects for a company that was created as a result of the 1965 flood. The biggest was called the Great Flood of 1864 sites.google.com