COLORADO SPRINGS — A large slab of concrete launched into the air Sunday evening after rainwater began disintegrating a drainage channel in northeastern Colorado Springs.
“I screamed,” said Dianne Reid, who was with her mother watching the channel fill with water when the 10-foot deep ditch began to come apart. “I saw a 30-foot piece of concrete fly about 50 feet into the air.”
Reid, who has lived at the Preserve at Briargate for two years, was in the safety of her home when the drama began in the channel between Rampart High School and the condominiums off Union Boulevard.
That part of Colorado Springs received about two inches of rain from Sunday morning until 8 a.m. Monday, according to the National Weather Service. Water rushed through the channel and began coming over the sides, Reid said. The flow eventually chewed off about 10 feet of a neighbor’s yard and sent water into the basement of that home.
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