*all photos property of Zoey Helgesen unless
otherwise noted*
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| damage to natural areas surrounding residential areas |
Welcome to Moorehead Avenue, Boulder, CO
Today is a beautiful 70 and sunny in Boulder, CO, but we haven't been so lucky in the past six days. Starting last week on Tuesday and Wednesday, heavy rainfall continued through Thursday, stopped for two days, and continued through the day and night Sunday. A full 9 inches of rain fell on September 12th alone, and over 15 inches in the span of five days. This amount of rainfall has a .1% chance of happening in any given year in this part of the world, making it a rare and terrifying event for many of us in the area. Here is the first of a series of photographs showing damage in one neighborhood of Boulder, Colorado, known as Moorehead Avenue, taken today, September 17, 2013. As you can see, there is mainly property damage from basement flooding - clothing, furniture, mattresses, carpeting, and even cars have gone through so much water that they are unsalvageable.
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| people had to remove and replace carpeting from their flooded basements |
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| ruined mattresses, miscellaneous furniture and personal items |
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| cardboard laid down atop someones basement |
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| dumpster full of one households damaged property |
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| damage indoors. people must replace damaged drywall |
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| a car put on higher ground to avoid more damage |
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| leftover mud lines the street in areas that flooded badly |
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| thrown away carpeting and furniture |
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| cars airing out under the hood and on the interior |
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| a lot of damage to this house's properties |
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| a lifetime of CDs |
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| tons of music equipment on the lawn |
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| an infant's shoe in the street |
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| piles of clothes thrown out along with mattresses and other things |
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| a friend's car airing out. too bad it doesn't work anymore |
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| carpet laid out to dry |
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| maybe someone took the opportunity to clean out their house? |
