Originally Posted by Mark56

Interesting it is when the news publishes a story saying the floods were of BIBLICAL proportion.....hmmmmm........

Imagine twenty foot walls of water washing down frontrange/foothill canyons..... all of them. Houses which just disappeared. People who did the same. Communities cut off from the world because roads do not go there any longer. Over 19,000 homes seriously damaged or destroyed. We do not get hurricanes, and have not known the scope of such trouble suffered by our coastal friends. This is just a taste of their pain.

Our family is just fine. We remained high and dry.

Friends of ours had decided to celebrate 50 years of marriage this coming weekend in a little mountain community called AllensPark. It is quaint. It is pretty. It is remote. There is now only one road there by a circuitous route. But campers have been turned away by the Highway Department [CDOT they call it]. We are supposed to take our camper, but may not be able to do so and will thus not have a place to stay. This will have to be figured out. Maybe tomorrow.

So, for a picture on the situation, take a look online at the picturesque community of Estes Park, Colorado. It is beautiful... People vacation there from far away. All roads to Estes Park are GONE [and there were five rising up from the plains] save one. This particular road is called Trail Ridge Road, check it out. It travels through Rocky Mountain National Park and rises up to about 12,000 feet on a narrow ledge road going quite a ways above timberline. THIS is the only road into the town of Estes Park now. No one except emergency vehicles are allowed to use it as it is the only lifeline for supplies to provide the needs of a community of thousands. We had hoped to take our little car along this weekend and motor over to Estes Park, but were told there is no longer a road. We are not talking road damage here, but the scouring of roads from the face of the earth as though there had never been a road.

So, if we make it up to the anniversary celebration, we may just be there and sit a spell, then make our way back home. That is if we travel. It does not sound too safe..... maybe I had better get ahold of MDinPain and see whether he could be hired for guard duty over our camper.

Prayin all is well with you Jackiey and every one of our friends on the Emerald Isle and that other large Isle to the East of ya..