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[STORMREPORTS] Flooding in Vail, Colorado Closes I-70 (AP)

From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 08:07:00 EDT

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030602/ap_on_re_us/colorado_flooding_4

VAIL, Colo. - Rampaging mountain creeks kept a major section of the state's
main east-west highway closed for a second day Monday, and hundreds of
people left their homes overnight because of the threat of mudslides and
floods.

No injuries were reported, but heavy runoff from deep alpine snowfields
washed out a culvert and opened a 20-foot-wide sinkhole in Interstate 70.
Several homes in Eagle County were flooded.

A 24-mile stretch of the highway was expected to be closed for days,
forcing up to 30,000 vehicles a day to find another way across the
mountains just as the summer vacation season was getting under way. 

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