Rain continues in Colorado, thwarting air rescues
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Clifford Armion
le 16/09/2013
Jenny Deam and Matt Pearce
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — As rain continued for a seventh day, inundating much of the state and creating a virtual moat around the closed Rocky Mountain National Park, Sandra Ellison waited at the Timberline Church here Sunday for the helicopters that would evacuate her parents, 86 and 85.But choppers couldn't operate in the torrential rain and heavy clouds. Her parents would have to wait another day to escape their flooded, remote community near Glenhaven. Like many others in Colorado, they remained trapped inside a slow-motion disaster that has washed out roads, broken bridges from their embankments and separated families.
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"Rain continues in Colorado, thwarting air rescues ", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), septembre 2013. Consulté le 13/09/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/rain-continues-in-colorado-thwarting-air-rescues-