Thursday, September 12, 2013

Boulder is Flooding

We have water in our two bedrooms, nothing too terrible, but we'll probably have to get the carpets replaced, there are definitely people way worse off than us. I did have the most terrifying drive to work ever. It started out with just rain and some sand and rocks on Highway 36. Then I turned onto mcaslin blvd which turns into dillon road. At the light where you can get onto northwest parkway, there were a bunch of cop cars and a fire truck pulled up while I was at the red light. As we drove around, I saw a bridge washed out on the business access road and a car was in the river ( which is usually a dry ditch) with its headlights still on, and I freaked out. I called Caley and and started crying etc. I made it a couple more miles before getting 3 flash flood warnings on my phone and running in to standing water in a low spot across I 25 before finally calling it quits and deciding I didn't want to die today. It actually took me quite a long time to get home because I avoided the car in the river intersection, then south boulder road was closed near our house. I finally, made it home on baseline, which is now closed and probably should have been when I was driving through the 2-3 inches of moving water on the road... Holy crap I don't want to do this again tomorrow. Why the hell our school district isn't canceling classes is beyond me. It's still raining. Caley and I took a little walk during one of the lulls in the rain earlier...here's what we saw, our little creek...