{"id":3701,"date":"2010-05-25T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/reports-from-the-field-flash-flood\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:47:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:47:47","slug":"reports-from-the-field-flash-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2010\/05\/25\/reports-from-the-field-flash-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports from the field: flash flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6933\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/rainbow.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"rainy rainbow\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/rainbow.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/rainbow-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\nLooks like it is getting to be summer thunderstorm season already. This is the time of year when Colorado&#8217;s eastern plains receive most of their annual precipitation. Many small draws, gullies, and ravines on the plains are dry for much of the year, until a big thunderstorm rolls over and drops a lot of rain. The result can be a flash flood. CNHP ecologist Ren\u00e9e Rondeau took these photos in southeastern Colorado after a teriffic storm.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6934\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/roadwashout.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"washed out road\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/roadwashout.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/roadwashout-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">A section of road over a normally dry wash is destroyed by flood waters.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6935\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/floodedprairie.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" alt=\"standing water on the prairie\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/floodedprairie.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/floodedprairie-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Rain falls faster than the ground can absorb it, resulting in pools of standing water on the prairie.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>\nThe next day, you can see the flood debris held by the shrubs. Intact vegetation is important for preventing erosion during these severe weather events.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6936\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/nextday.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"flood debris caught in vegetation\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/nextday.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/nextday-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Flood debris along the path of what was a makeshift river just the day before.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like it is getting to be summer thunderstorm season already. This is the time of year when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ecology","entry","override"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}