Southwestern Colorado Assesses Widespread Destruction After Back-to-Back Historic Floods
PAGOSA SPRINGS, Colo. — Emergency management officials across southwestern Colorado are conducting aerial and ground assessments this week after two historic autumn storms battered the Four Corners region in little more than a week, washing away homes, buckling highways, and stretching local rescue resources thin, according to The Colorado Sun. In Pagosa Springs, the San Juan River crested at roughly 15 feet during an late-October atmospheric river event before surging to nearly 17 feet during a second deluge on November 2, undermining half the foundation of the Pagosa Springs Museum and sweeping at least one riverside home downstream.
