A driver was rescued from a car stranded after a flash flood flooded a highway in Denver, Colorado.
Interstate 70 flooded near the Brighton area northeast of downtown on Sunday. Traffic was paralyzed in both directions as firefighters rescued his 11 people from the vehicle.
One driver told ABC7that his car was flooded while he was on I-70. Several people were forced to flee the vehicle through windows.
No injuries were reported, but several drivers had to dump their cars into the water.
The video emerged on Sunday, and Monday again shows drivers risking a flooded road. The National Weather Service warns against driving on flooded roads as flood waters can wash the roadbed away.
The Colorado Department of Transportation later reported that the flooding had affected parts of the road, where a drainage network under construction had not yet been completed.
The National Weather Service said Sunday evening. reported "worrying" heavy rain, flash floods and thunderstorms remaining on the east-facing slopes of the Colorado Front Ranges west of Denver.
The showers were "slow-moving and persistent." was expressed. Three to four inches of rainfall is expected overnight, potentially adding more areas to flash flooding, including burn scarred areas that are particularly vulnerable to previous wildfires.
The United States experienced devastating flash floods this summer, including in eastern Kentucky, where at least 38 people died.
The climate crisis will likely cause more flash floods in the future, and floods will become 'flashing'. That means more water flooding in a short period of time.
Unlike river or coastal floods, flash floods don't have to overflow, they occur when there is more water than the ground can absorb.
