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Rain in Colorado

It's Friday the 13th, 2013.  My friend from New Orleans who's family survived Katrina says, "I never imagined that my sister would be calling to see if I'm OK because of rain."  My taxi driver makes a joke about the rain here-- "Since it'll be raining for 6 days total, we've got 34 days to Noah's ark"  I say, "Stay dry" to my friends in harms way. Do you know that a 5,000 pound car can float away in 12 inches of water?  If this rain were heavy, wet snow, we'd have 10 feet.   This is the largest amount of rainfall, in a September, for Boulder.  Also, it's the most rainfall ever, in one day there.  Our Colorado norm for humidity it 24%.  No doubt the earth is changing.
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