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NSA is supposed to be tracking all of the 350 million potential terrorists in the US, but it seems that about 1,000 people have snuck under the radar.

The number of people unaccounted for in flood-ravaged Colorado rose Sunday to about 1,000 as flooding spread to 15 counties and rain continued to fall.

Many of those unaccounted for were reported unreachable on the phone by family members.

Nearly 1,000 unaccounted for in deadly Colo. floods

That is weird that hippies living in the mountains with roads washed out, no electricity and no phone service aren’t picking up the phone. Even NSIDC has dropped off the Internet.

Only two things are infinite. The universe and human stupidity- and I am not so sure about the former.

– Albert Einstein

The City of Fort Collins has recently approved a new housing development in the Poudre River floodplain – below the embankment and adjacent to the sewage plant in the center of the Google Earth image below.

People will enjoy the prospect of swimming in shite in their new home, and as an extra bonus the County Jail is just to the right of the picture.

This is currently the second toughest golf course in the world, after the Greenland Country Club.

Photos: Colorado floods devastate Boulder, Lyons, Longmont, Front Range communities

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Syria: nearly half rebel fighters are jihadists or hardline Islamists, says IHS Jane’s report – Telegraph

Obama doesn’t trust Americans with guns, but is happy to ship them to al Qaeda

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I took my official Edinburgh Castle gift shop rain poncho out for a circum-flood tour on my bicycle this morning

There isn’t actually a castle in Bellvue, Colorado – but it does look a bit like Scotland today.

There was a sheriff’s deputy blocking the road into Bellvue, who angrily told me :

This is a natural disaster, not a photo-op. We have enough people to keep track of already.

I thought the NSA had that tracking thing covered already. No need to duplicate efforts.

Amazing that I survived those summers working by myself as a wilderness ranger in the high country, without anyone from the nanny state telling me where to go.

The CSU football team won a game yesterday, which experts say happens about once every thirty centuries.

Note that yesterday’s climate refugees have moved out of Hughes Stadium Parking lot this morning.

Devastating long-term drought haunts U.S. Southwest: Water wars under way between Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming

You would have to go all the way back 16 years to find a more intense rainfall event along the Front Range.

IT’S NOT OVER:Colorado braces for more rain, floods

All the way back to 1997

this disaster is all too familiar for those who have lived in Northern Colorado. This situation prompts us to pause and reflect on the 1976 Big Thompson Flood, which impacted the entire canyon from Estes Park on down, as well as the 1997 Spring Creek Flood in Fort Collins. The Big Thompson Flood claimed 143 lives; five women died in the Fort Collins flood.

Our View: Human spirit will prevail in Northern Colorado | The Coloradoan | coloradoan.com

I am about to go for a bike ride along Spring Creek.

“Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods – all are now more frequent and more intense,” President Barack Obama said during his State of the Union speech last February. “We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science – and act before it’s too late.”

However, the staff at the Earth Systems Science Center has tracked all the activity of hurricanes, tornadoes and extreme temperatures and found little change during recent decades.

“You can see that hurricanes are not increasing,” Christy told Al.com in June, “tornadoes are not increasing, droughts and floods are not increasing, snow cover is still around – in fact, last winter, the northern hemisphere had its largest extent of snow cover measure.”

Global warming advocates may be more Nostradamus than Galileo | al.com