I guess Boulder is making national news! It has been absolutely crazy here! Forty-years living on the same street and I’ve never been through something like this, what they are now calling the “100 year flood.” We got 9 inches of rain in 24 hours, more than twice the record set in 1914 and just under half of our annual 20 inches of precipitation. Catherine, Sean and I (along with a couple of Sean’s friends that put in a couple of hours from midnight – 2am when they had to go help someone else!) worked our hardest to save the house we are temporarily living in while our own house is being remodeled. In addition to the kitchen and two bedrooms being in the basement of this house, all of our possessions from our own home were being stored in other rooms.
We started moving things upstairs earlier in the evening, then at 11pm, mud & water started pouring into the house. By 4am, we were wading though 6 inches of muck, and had to abandon what remained. We went to my dad’s house for a shower and to sleep, since all hotels were full, but when we got there, we found there was a ceiling leak in one upstairs room and his basement, where I store more than 100 framed exhibition prints (thankfully on pallets), had 3” of clear water in it. We worked moving everything upstairs until 7am, saving everything, and then the day got started looking for sump-pumps and sandbags, which were all sold out in Boulder.
We wish Mike and his family the best during these tough times. We will bring you more on his survival efforts in the Thursday News. Hang on!–Bandit
