Fifth fatality feared in Colorado floods as towns evacuated
By Keith Coffman
DENVER | Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:39pm EDT
(Reuters) – Colorado farming communities along the South Platte River were ordered to evacuate ahead of a predicted surge in the flooding, which may have claimed a fifth life and has left many still unaccounted for, authorities said on Saturday.
Four deaths have already been confirmed and, the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office said in a Tweet, “a 60-year-old woman from Cedar Grove … is missing and presumed dead.”
About 200 people in eastern Colorado were unaccounted for, although authorities said some of those residents might be stranded or cut off from communication in the region’s worst flooding in decades.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/14/us-usa-colorado-flooding-idUSBRE98B0KM20130914
Colorado battles historic flooding; more rain to come
Trevor Hughes and John Bacon, USA TODAY 7:55 p.m. EDT September 14, 2013
BOULDER, Colo. — Another round of storms swept into battered Colorado on Saturday as weary residents reeled from days of death and destruction wrought by historic flooding.
Evacuations continued at a frantic pace as rescuers encountered swamped roads, inundated homes and the dark forecast of more rain to come.
“It is a sinking feeling when you realize that when some people call … we are not going to be able to get to them,” Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said. “But we are making great progress.”
Pelle said more than 170 people unaccounted for in the Boulder area were not considered missing yet, though they had not contacted family members.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/09/14/boulder-colorado-floods/2813225/
米コロラド州を１１日から１２日にかけて襲った豪雨で、１４日までに４人の死亡が確認された。当局によれば、ボルダー郡で２３１人、ラリマー郡で約３５０人が行方不明となっている。現場では１５日にかけてさらに激しい雨が予想され、当局が警戒を強めている。
（中略）
オバマ米大統領は同州ボルダーなど３郡に非常事態宣言を出した。緊急事態管理局（ＦＥＭＡ）はこれを受け、州内で過去最大規模となる救助隊を派遣した。
１３日までの雨量だけですでに約３８０ミリに達し、ボルダー郡内の河川がすべてあふれ出した。川のはんらんで町全体が孤立した例もあり、州兵約１００人が特殊なトラックで住民の救出を開始した。主要道路の一部は閉鎖され、一部は復旧のめどが立たない状態となっている。
http://www.cnn.co.jp/usa/35037246.html
コロラド州の位置
（画像＝『コロラド州 – Wikipedia』より引用）
Colorado Flash Flood AMAZING Video Man Rescued from Overturned Car during Severe Flood
公開日: 2013/09/12
9/12/2013 Boulder County Colorado Flooding
公開日: 2013/09/12
とりあえずこういう事象が起きたということをここに記録しておく。
コロラド州で大雨がふり河川が氾濫するのは極めて珍しいことなのか、それとも時々あることなのか、毎年多少は起きることなのか。
私はその辺の事情をまったく知らないので、今回の豪雨の意味するところを把握できないのだ。