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Sun valley topped off one ft. From ceiling. And the smell was horrible. In high school then

I can't believe the insensitivity of the woman reporter towards the young father poking the microphone at him "did you lose him in the water?" Duh go away lady!

I was 5, and don’t remember a damn thing about it!

I was 14 years old from California visiting family in Denver. My family was suppose to be camping that night, we already had reservation. Rocky Mt. Park was my parents wedding anniversary.The parents went out celebrating their anniversary with family in Denver and stay out late. Our camp spot was totally wipe out. This still shakes me.

I was vacaationing there with my family that weekend. We were lucky to make it out alive. It's one of my earliest memories, I was nearly 5-years old.

Stand up and tell 'em you're from Detroit!

At 16 yrs old, my friend Alan and I made lots of money shoveling out commercial buildings after this flood. I think we were getting as much as $2.00 per hour....big money for us.

3:00 Huh, Federal Blvd, eh. Loretto Heights is hard to miss

fake news

My friend and I were headed up the canyon that night to a wine party some friends were having up there. My buddy felt bad because he got in an argument with his mom and asked if I would mind if we turned around. It was raining so hard I said no, we can hang out in Loveland instead. We would have died that night if we wouldn't have turned around, as we heard on the radio about the wall of water just as we got out of the mouth of the canyon! what a crazy night that was. I'll never forget it.

Was KLZ TV became CBS until 1972 became KMGH and 1995 from CBS to ABC

Denver 7 KMGH-TV is now owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, and we liked their branding in the clear after it reminds us of every other KMGH-TV branding in past years.

MO.ME BROTHER AND STEP DAD LIVED ON SOUTH SANTA FE OXFORD .AR.Y MEN WOKE US UP 2AM TOLD US TO GRAG WHAT WE COULD GO TO HIGH ACE .I WAS 14.i was crying g so much .all light on santa fe we out .it looked spooky .

I was there when this happened!!!

Thanks for posting this. Our family was in the canyon that night driving up to Estes park. I was eight years old. We remember the sky turning to almost black a few hours earlier, and once the deluge started, we remember seeing larger objects washing across the road until what looked like a tree trunk float across. We turned around and escaped with minutes to spare. We spent the night parked in a field and remember the sound of helicopters all night. We are all still haunted from all the people we saw looking out of buildings and in cars continuing to drive up while we made our way down. We live in Illinois but we’ve all visited the memorial a few times.

How many floods have gone through here? 76 and 82 is all I know god bless to those who lost there lives

0:57 - Jim Redmond 1:22 - John Lindsay 1:50 - a VERY young Ed Greene (before Channel 4 and Channel 9) 1:58 - Warren Chandler 2:10 - The Great Bob Palmer at KMGH on hiatus from KCNC (KOA-TV at the time) 2:18 - Liz Walker before her long tenure at WBZ Boston Those are the only people I could name off

I came to be 3 days following. My parents lost friends, my big brothers babysitter and her boyfriend perished, as did a friends grandfather. If ever in the canyon on the 31st of July, they still hold a memorial at Viestenz-Smith park to my knowledge. Thanks to The History Guy and your presentation on the 1921 Pueblo flood. Brought me to here and history.

Taken from ABC-affiliated television station KMGH-TV, in Denver, Colorado.

I camped at 12000 feet above the Moffat tunnel on July 31 1976. OMG I never imagined it could rain that hard. And lightning striking every 3 or 4 seconds for hours. I wouldn't have missed it for the world!

mmm lived in Estes the day of the flood , i worked at the hospital there and only received one patient due to being socked in.The rain and lightening was incredible

I was 20 years old when this flood ripped through the canyon. I was living in NE Colorado at the time, but I was in the canyon on an almost weekly basis (thankfully not on the night of the flood) because my mother and father-in-law lived just past The Narrows. It took my husband a couple of days to find out if his parents were alive. Their home was on the south side edge of Hwy 34, and we entered their steep uphill driveway straight from Hwy 34. That piece of the highway had been left intact, and their home, along with the small home next door, were spared from any damage. Everything on the opposite side of the highway was gone--just completely gone. I remember seeing an entire roof of a house resting on a small bridge within view of their driveway, and it was marked with a red flag indicating a body had been found inside. The entire scene was traumatizing, and I still remember elements of the event so clearly.

Wow. What there is of it is great. Definitely wish it was longer.🏈 THANKS FOR POSTING THIS VIDEO.

Wow, look at that news crew. 3 men at the newsdesk. Today it would be female weather, female traffic, female field reporters, two females at the desk and one token male.

My dad and grandma told me stories about this. Thanks for posting.

Before the flood, I made the drive between Loveland and Estes Park many, many times. That "river" alongside the highway was a tiny stream maybe knee-high in places with a lot of dry areas throughout the stream-bed. Some years after the flood I drove the newly reconstructed highway and couldn't recognize a single scene along the entire route --- the entire landscape had been turned into something else. The highway didn't even follow the same course. At one time I looked below me and saw part of the old washed-away highway pavement. Thinking back to that babbling brook, I could never had dreamed it would one day fill the entire canyon. The homes and cabins in that canyon had stood for decades and no one had ever heard the word "flood" in those parts. One change that was apparent were the myriad of signs along the route with both the text and graphic of climbing to higher ground in case of a flood. The next flood is coming, although it may be several thousand more years.

it would've been better if you had audio on there.

I'm from Loveland and we learned about this flood in school. If you're in a canyon and you see the water rising, climb uphill immediately. If you're in a very narrow canyon and you see storm clouds in the distance, get out of there as fast as you can. It could save your life.

my sisters and brother played in the deep flowing waters for days at 6th and Galena. Aurora Colorado.

Saw 2 story boulders, that came down

I was in Estes Park the night the flood hit. Never thought I would be that close to such a major disaster. I've never forgotten it.

My parents were married on June 19, 1965 and they took the train from Chicago out to Denver to go to Estes Park for their honeymoon. Because of this flood, the train was diverted to Cheyenne, Wyoming and then to Denver.

Instacam.... Man, I have had not heard that term in ages!!! It was sort of state of the art back then. Crude compared to what is used today. Originally from Boulder. That's where I lived in 1976.

My sister had just had a baby- June 15th, I was going to go see her, but got turned back at the bridge by Overland Golf Course. Went to my other sister's house on Miss and Alcott - she also had a new baby - born June 10th. My bro-in-law and I went back and stood on Ruby Hill and watched the propane tanks go past. Went on home (S Wolff) and told my folks and a couple they were entertaining - they just laughed and thought I was being funny when I said I couldn't see Diane because of the flood.

I was 13 when the flood struck. We lived on 1st and Knox Court near Barnum Park, but my Great Grandparents lived near 13th Ave, close to the Denver Power Plant, adjacent to the river. We drove to pick them up and to barricade the house as best we could. They lived on W.Holden Place and the flood waters reached the east end of that dead end street. All the houses on the east end were either swept away or heavily damaged. I can still remember the sounds of the explosions from the outside electrical equipment at the power plant and seeing the dead cattle and debris in the aftermath.

Oh wow, I remember this. I was 5 but remember all of the flat lands on the east side of I25, the remnants of bridges.. Thanks so much for sharing. Really took me back.

My parents had just purchased a place with a deck that actually hung over the river. They were hoping to use it for square dancing. We had it for two weeks, cleaning and painting the huge building, only to have it accumulate east of Loveland. The flood actually hit my neighborhood in Greeley, flooding our basement, nearly to its ceiling! Thanks for sharing. Lost a lot of friends that year.

While the summer of 1976 seemed to have been wet for this region, the 1976-77 El Nino brought drought conditions to Colorado and most of the western USA.

I was 8, we lived 7 miles west of Brighton. I'll never for get hearing the bullhorns blaring up and down Riverdale Rd, 'Seek higher shelter immediately, flood is imminent, Seek higher shelter'. Fortunately our house was plenty high enough. We had enough acreage that our neighbors brought their cows up there for an extended stay. It was also on my younger brother's 7th birthday, and our mom drove to town, gold bond books in hand, to get him the present he had picked out. She no sooner got to town than the sky opened up. Was fine on the way to Brighton, but flood water was starting to cross the bridge on her way home. To this day I'm filed with childlike excitement on the anniversary. The aftermath, the mud, mess, and stench are all things that I'll also never forget.

The mountain outline was across the BOTTOM of the license plates in '65.

There's a shot following a Chevy Impala at the 39 second mark that I swear is Federal Blvd. just below the street I grew up on. Oxford Av. is just over the crest of the hill. When the police allowed us to go back to our homes later that evening, I remember laying in bed listening to the roar of the river 1/4 mile away.

I think it was about 1975 or so that Bumpkinville changed it's name to Denver. After seeing these news clips, I can see why Denver was thought of as a cow town for a very long time.

It's interesting to see just how much local news coverage has changed in almost 40 years. I was 8 years old when this flood happened. I even wrote a short book about it when I was in the third grade later in the year, which I still have. My mother had a friend whose parents lived in that canyon at the time of that flood, but they got out alive.

i lost 5 family members in this disaster. uncle. aunt and 3 cousins. what a tragedy

Was 12 years old when this hit. I remember my mom and I drove down Federal to see the damage. Glad to know the footage exists.

So gratifying to see my uncle Paul Bluebaugh...a great Denver broadcasting pioneer and administrator. Thanks for posting.

Thanks for posting this. I never heard of this until reading about it in a text book for grad school. This makes it so much more real for me.

we lived on the remnants one of the biggest sugar beet farms in colorado pre 1965. what was left before we moved in 2001 was two boxcars, 3 houses, 1 barn, and a field. all of it was in a swamp. the house we lived in got knocked down this year and the land was turned to a gravel pit

Thanks for uploading this. I was in High school living in SE Wyoming when this happened. My family and I were in Colorado getting school clothes for the upcoming school season. We were on our way back when the flooding started. We made it home okay, but it was a harrowing ride! water coming over the roadway, and gullies that normally had little or no water in them filled beyond capacity.