Houses wrenched from their foundations were hanging from chunks of broken ground over rushing water, propane tanks floated on the raging currents and dams were pushed to their limits. That, compounded by the low, unmoving clouds hindered visibility so much the fleet of helicopters waiting at the ready couldn’t fly. Pelle said the rapidly-rising water isolated the Jamestown area. One man was having a heart attack and his wife was on the phone. "We were getting 911 calls from people who were trapped. “Once bad things started happening, I went to the emergency operations center. 11, 2013 - a Wednesday - and did not see the back of his eyelids for two days. “We knew we were going to get a lot of rain but we had no idea the systems would collide over Jamestown,” said former Boulder Sheriff Joe Pelle, who got the first call at 3 a.m. It was the most significant weather event of the 2010-2019 decade. When it was over, 18 Colorado counties were declared federal disaster areas and the National Weather Service dubbed the 2013 flood a 1,000-year flood event. Rivers and tributaries overflowed, flooding downstream and stranding people in Estes Park, Fort Collins and Greeley.
The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings in Boulder, El Paso and Larimer counties on Sept. The area experienced a year’s worth of rain in a week. 9, 2013, after a summer of drought and heat, the rain started on the Eastern Plains, moved to the Colorado Front Range and sat there until Sept. Sections of Highway 34, US Highway 36 and many county roads were washed away. The monstrous 2013 Flood destroyed 1,850 homes, caused more than $4 billion in damages and forced 11,000 people to evacuate, including Schultz and the entire town of Jamestown. Howlett, 72, was the village patriarch, longtime owner of the Jamestown Mercantile Café, erstwhile town Santa Claus and likely the first of eight people who were killed in the 2013 Flood. Minutes before, rocks and mud, loosened by continuous rain, came roaring down a burn-scarred slope into Joey Howlett's home, splintering it into a pile of pick-up sticks.
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