Colorado Experience: Big Thompson Flood

Video Description

2016 marks the 40th anniversary of the most deadly natural disaster in Colorado's history. The combination of a state and national holiday, a downed weather warning station, and a torrential rainstorm that remained stationary over the Big Thompson River for several hours, left 144 people dead. Along with riveting first hand accounts from survivors, "Colorado Experience" explores the conditions that led to this traumatic disaster, the ramifications to the road, property, and residents of the canyon, and the equally cataclysmic flood that occurred in 2013. For more information please visit http://www.rmpbs.org/coloradoexperience