There's a town in Colorado where the bumper stickers read 'SILT HAPPENS' — and after Monday night's mudslide, that joke landed a little differently than usual.
I remember having a bicentennial quarter in my hand that Sunday (the day after the flood;) in addition to the nation's 200th birthday, it was Colorado's 100th.
Burn scars from weeks of Western Slope wildfires have left the ground in a condition where even a short rainstorm can turn a dry gulch into something unrecognizable.
Nearly a thousand firefighters are working the Gold Mountain Fire alone — and that number tells you something about what crews are up against near Cimarron Ridge.