{"id":2247,"date":"2013-09-12T02:21:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T08:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2013-09-12T02:21:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T08:21:43","slug":"amazing-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/12\/amazing-rain","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s 1:55AM and Boulder is flooding. There are evacuations in the mountains near town, several structures up there have collapsed, and one dorm on campus is knee-deep in water. The tag #boulderflood is number 3 on Twitter’s trending list. The NCAR station a few miles from here has logged 5.5 inches in the last 24 hours:<\/p>\n

\"weather<\/a>Something I never even imagined seeing: road closures near our house, which is far away from the designated flood zone:<\/p>\n

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So far everything’s okay here at the house. The road closures near here must be the result of combined runoff, not of Boulder Creek rising (which, according to a Tweet I saw, is “…\u00a0running at 4,000 CFS. Normal flow runs around 300-350 CFS.”). All of that 5.5″ of water has to go somewhere, after all. There’s a big irrigation ditch just downhill from the house, so I’m not particularly worried.<\/p>\n

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