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Fast-melting snow in Colorado mountains sends water to downriver reservoirs — with flooding along the way

“It is just beginning”

The waters of Dry Creek overran the banks early Thursday morning, flooding large section of Hayden, Colorado, on April 12, 2023. The flooding closed schools in Hayden and forced the Colorado Department of Transportation to close a large swath of U.S. 40 west of Steamboat Springs. (Photo by John F. Russell/Steamboat Pilot & Today)
The waters of Dry Creek overran the banks early Thursday morning, flooding large section of Hayden, Colorado, on April 12, 2023. The flooding closed schools in Hayden and forced the Colorado Department of Transportation to close a large swath of U.S. 40 west of Steamboat Springs. (Photo by John F. Russell/Steamboat Pilot & Today)
Bruce Finley of The Denver Post
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Mountain snow-melting intensified this week with an unusually abrupt “flick of the switch” from cold to hot, leading to flooding that on Thursday cut off northwestern Colorado’s main transportation route and forced a shutdown of schools.
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