{"id":69665,"date":"2013-09-15T19:32:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T18:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/hundreds-missing-as-floods-continue-to-ravage-colorado\/69665\/"},"modified":"2013-09-15T19:32:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T18:32:59","slug":"hundreds-missing-as-floods-continue-to-ravage-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/hundreds-missing-as-floods-continue-to-ravage-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Missing as Floods Continue to Ravage Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:none\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/09\/15-2\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/commondreams.org\/files\/imce-images\/ragingwaterfall.jpg\" title=\"This aerial photo shows a raging waterfall destroying a bridge along Highway 34 toward Estes Park, Colorado. (Photo: AP)\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><span>This aerial photo shows a raging waterfall destroying a bridge along Highway 34 toward Estes Park, Colorado. (Photo: AP)<\/span><\/span>Continued rainfall, mud slides and flash flooding continue to batter Colorado on Sunday, leaving up to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/weather-news\/4-dead-in-colorado-floods-evac\/17762061\">six people dead<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/weather-news\/4-dead-in-colorado-floods-evac\/17762061\"> and as many as 500 missing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ongoing rain in the flood-ravaged state this weekend has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/news\/ci_24100176\/heavy-rains-force-new-evacuations-longmont-sw-weld\">forced more evacuations<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/boulder-county-news\/ci_24098404\/boulder-emergency-officials-things-arent-looking-very-good\">hampered rescue efforts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a 500-to-1,000-year flood,&#8221; Sean Conway, a commissioner of rural Weld County, said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The National Guard <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baynews9.com\/content\/news\/baynews9\/news\/article.html\/content\/news\/articles\/bn9\/2013\/9\/15\/nat_guard_colorado_f.html\">called<\/a> Saturday&#8217;s rescue efforts to save those stranded by the floods the biggest helicopter resuce effort since Hurricane Katrina.<\/p>\n<p>The masive flooding prompted by record rainfall, which some have called &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lamarledger.com\/news\/ci_24095865\/colorado-floods-by-numbers-look-at-disaster\">biblical<\/a>,&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/09\/13-6\">has<\/a> swollen creeks and rivers, collapsing bridges and dams, and cutting off highways and destroying roads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is clearly going to be a historic event,&#8221; National Weather Service Director Louis Uccellini <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/09\/14\/colorado-flooding-climate-change_n_3926284.html\">told<\/a> <em>Climate Central<\/em>&#8216;s Andrew Freedman. &#8220;The true magnitude is really just becoming obvious now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ITN has video:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * *<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">____________________<\/p>\n<p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License<\/p>\n<p>Copyright: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/09\/15-2\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Hundreds Missing as Floods Continue to Ravage Colorado\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This aerial photo shows a raging waterfall destroying a bridge along Highway 34 toward Estes Park, Colorado. (Photo: AP)Continued rainfall, mud slides and flash flooding continue to batter Colorado on Sunday, leaving up to six people dead and as many as 500 missing. Ongoing rain in the flood-ravaged state this weekend has forced more evacuations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}