{"id":13850,"date":"2014-05-04T15:27:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T21:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=13850"},"modified":"2014-05-04T15:27:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T21:27:19","slug":"drive-into-the-mountains-brings-stark-reminders-of-colorados-september-2013-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/drive-into-the-mountains-brings-stark-reminders-of-colorados-september-2013-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive into the mountains brings stark reminders of Colorado&#8217;s September 2013 floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #404040;\">We went for a drive through Estes Park and into Rocky Mountain National Park yesterday. \u00a0Always beautiful but now, a bit more dramatic for other reasons. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #404040;\">The devastation from last year&#8217;s floods are still very visible and while much has done rebuilding, much more needs to be done. \u00a0Here you can see what is left of a car after being caught in the flood on Highway 34. \u00a0In the background, the collapsed hillside is seen and two construction vehicles work to rebuild the riverbank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Piles of debris and rubble as still visible as you climb up the canyon. \u00a0While some houses have been rebuilt, others remain in pieces.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-2qlPrANfBGE\/U2apQAtRIkI\/AAAAAAAAJw4\/SYrMyz-iMgw\/s580\/2014-05-03+11-30-06+-+0160.jpg\" alt=\"Remnants of Colorado's September 2013 floods. (Tony's Takes Photography)\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Remnants of Colorado&#8217;s September 2013 floods. (Tony&#8217;s Takes Photography)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went for a drive through Estes Park and into Rocky Mountain National Park yesterday. \u00a0Always beautiful but now, a bit more dramatic for other reasons. \u00a0 The devastation from last year&#8217;s floods are still very visible and while much has done rebuilding, much more needs to be done. \u00a0Here you can see what is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/drive-into-the-mountains-brings-stark-reminders-of-colorados-september-2013-floods\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drive into the mountains brings stark reminders of Colorado&#8217;s September 2013 floods<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[483],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13851,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13850\/revisions\/13851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}