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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

The Washington D.C. based US Drought Monitor shows us that flooded New Mexico is experiencing an exceptional drought.

Regional Drought Monitor: West

As always, the government is reporting highly accurate climate information – in pursuit of keeping the public properly informed about the threat of climate change.

KRQE – Dangerous rains lashing New Mexico

The hockey theory is finally proven. The Arctic has 700,000,000 more hockey rinks (468 m²) of ice today that it did a year ago.

»Numeric data of sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean (Ver.1)

An unarmed man who may have been looking for help after a vehicle wreck was shot and killed by a police officer Saturday as he ran toward him, police said.

Unarmed man, possibly looking for help after wreck, shot by police – CBS News

About once every 20 years Colorado has rainfall and flooding more severe than the current 1000 year biblical flood. One of these events occurred in 1965 and killed 21 people.

Some of the largest rain totals were observed in the southeast potion of the state. Many of these rainfall amounts were unprecedented. The 14 hour 15.5 inch rainfall south-southeast of Lamar was about three times the 100-year 12-hour rainfall.

Flood Summary June 14-20, 1965

Five weeks ago, the LA Times reported that New Mexico was in an unrecoverable drought, which had permanently wrecked the ecosystem.

Aug. 6, 2013

nowhere is it worse than in New Mexico. In this parched state, the question is no longer how much worse it can get but whether it will ever get better — and, ominously, whether collapsing ecosystems can recover even if it does.

New Mexico is the driest of the dry – latimes.com

Shocking imagery of the collapsing desert ecosystem has now arrived.

Record-breaking rain swamps NM, forces evacuations | ABQJournal Online

Whatever it was Obama was hoping to do in Syria (Islamist takeover? Take out Iran’s nuclear weapons program?) it is now a lot more difficult.

“We welcome the agreement,” Syrian Reconciliation Minister Ali Haidar told Russian news agency Ria Novosti, giving his country’s first reaction.

“On the one hand, it helps Syria come out of the crisis and, on the other, it helps avoid the war against Syria depriving those who wanted to launch it of arguments to do so,” Mr Haidar said.

“It’s a victory for Syria achieved thanks to our Russian friends.”

BBC News – Syria hails US-Russia deal on chemical weapons

Cops trying to subdue an emotionally disturbed man with a long rap sheet accidentally shot two female bystanders outside Port Authority Bus Terminal on Saturday night, source said.

Two cops pulled off a total of three shots in the mistaken belief that the deranged man was armed after he reached into his pocket as they approached him, officials said.

The 35-year-old man took his hand out of his pocket and “simulated shooting the officers,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters.

One victim, 54, was struck in her leg — breaking two bones in her calf — as she stood leaning on her four-wheeled walker across from the terminal; a second woman, 35, was grazed in her buttocks.

Cops shoot two bystanders on Broadway | New York Post

The “no hesitation” police training program pays off again.

The flooding has affected parts of a 4,500-square-mile area, almost the size of Connecticut.

At least 4 killed, 500 unaccounted for as floodwater inundates Colorado | Fox News

The flooding has actually affected parts of a 2,000,000-square-mile area, almost the size of the Earth.