Hail, Flooding Knock Out Colorado Towns

ABC News Blogs – Yahoo!
August 23, 2013

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Heavy rain and hail, some golf ball-sized, combined to make it look like Christmas in August in Colorado.

Accumulations of up to two feet of hail in the Denver area Thursday evening left at least one car trapped and closed local streets until the county could get a snowplow out to the scene.

“The water just takes my car rushing up over the hood, and was like, ‘Mom, I gotta go,'” Bryndon Jackson, whose car was totaled after filling with water and hail, told  ABC affiliate KMGH.

“I was forced to open the door and all the water came rushing in and I knew I had to get out of there quick,” he said.

Four inches of rain feel in just over an hour, racing through neighborhoods and forcing the National Weather Service to issue a flash flood warning until 1 a.m.

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