Longmont and Greeley, Post Biblical Flooding

By Dallice Tylee,
GRI, MCNE, SRES, CRS, ASP,  Eco-Broker


A week ago to the day... that's when it started raining over the Front Range.  Today was the day the sunshine came out!  It was also the day the Longmont airport opened again and I had the chance to take to the air and get that bird's eye view that I love.

There is currently a temporary flight restriction over most of Boulder.  This allows the emergency operations to continue out of Boulder Airport in the safest and most uninterrupted way, but because of this, I was not able to get many Boulder photos.

What follows is my view over Longmont and Greeley.  Cities which are struggling to return to normal as the water recedes.  Rivers still run paths that once were roads and bike paths, bridges are washed out and mud clings to everything!

Just east of Boulder Airport

South of Longmont Area

Neighborhood just north of Pike Rd, Longmont

Rivers converge in Greeley

 

South-East of Greeley

Roads destroyed, farms inundated with mud

Hwy 85 into Greeley.

Hwy 85, usually bustling.  Closed to traffic now until horrific damage is repaired. 

Feed lots to the south of the river, wet but not still flooded.

Mobile homes became way too mobile in Greeley.

Airport Road, Longmont.  Still closed. 

 

So much damage and destruction. 

There is nothing like dusk on the Front Range.

Longmont's Vance Brand Airport welcomes us back.