Tuesday, June 21, 2005

TheDenverChannel.com - Foot Of Hail Hits Colorado Springs

This was the first day of summer, no?
COLORADO SPRING, Colo. -- A slow moving thunderstorm dumped up to a foot of hail Tuesday along this city's southeastern edge, forcing officials to use snowplows to clear a route through a major thoroughfare.

The storm also brought about an inch of rain that left up to 4 feet of water in the middle of streets, trapping dozens of motorists, and turned a sleepy creek into a torrent that peeled the pavement off a bridge, said Lt. Carl Lyman of the Colorado Springs fire department.

One rescued motorist was treated for hypothermia, but nobody was seriously injured, Lyman said...
More

No comments: