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Thursday
Sunshine to start, then a few afternoon clouds. High 68F. Winds NE at 10 to 15 mph.
Thursday night
A few clouds. Low 51F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.
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- Two flood-damaged storage tanks owned by Anadarko Petroleum Corp., one of Colorado’s biggest oil and gas companies working north of Denver, have spilled an estimated 125 barrels of oil, or about 5,250 gallons, into the South Platte River, according to the company and state officials.
- Property losses from deadly flooding in Colorado will total nearly $2 billion , about half from housing and half from the commercial and government sectors, catastrophe modelling firm Eqecat said on Wednesday in the first comprehensive estimate of the disaster's economic toll.
- Garbage day after the Colorado floods is turning apocalyptic. The potential volume of flood debris is mind-blowing, given preliminary estimates of more than 1,800 homes destroyed and more than 16,000 damaged and full of soggy ruins.
- Colorado businesses are stepping up in ways big and small to assist the community as it endures historic flooding and begins to look toward recovery and rebuilding.
- Because of the flooding Colorado Springs is now losing eight to 10 million gallons of water a day. That's water we use for drinking, for bathing, and for about everything else. So city utility workers are making flood damage repairs their top priority.
- Xcel Energy's most flood-impacted natural-gas service area in Longmont is Royal Mobile Home Park, where 62 natural gas customers are out of service, the utility company said Wednesday afternoon.
- Galvanize, the humming hub of Denver's tech startup world, will build a second location in the Platte River neighborhood and add a campus in Boulder, both of which it expects to open in 2014.
- Number of missing in Colorado floods drops 2013. As water recedes and flows east onto the Colorado plains, rescuers are shifting their focus from emergency airlifts to trying to find the hundreds of people still
- After a "soft opening" Monday with a minimum of services, the Longmont and Boulder County disaster assistance center went into full swing Wednesday.
