“It started raining and it didn’t stop for 18 hours,” Robinson said.
The family was forced to evacuate again last fall during the Cameron Peak Fire, the largest recorded wildfire in Colorado history.
“You can see the scar line for the fires right up there, so we were that close to the Cameron Peak Fire,” Robinson said. “We have five neighbors that lost their homes just up the hill.”
On Sunday, the Robinsons left their home behind once more due to flooding and were grateful to see the damage was confined to their landscaping.
They were hopeful the sandbags would mitigate any further damage from another run-in with Mother Nature.
Memorial Day in Colorado mountains to look different due to fire, reservations and COVID-19 Miles Blumhardt, Fort Collins Coloradoan
Cameron Peak Fire scars Poudre Canyon lives, landscape
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The pandemic and the Cameron Peak Fire have put a significant crimp on recreating on the Roosevelt National Forest and in Rocky Mountain National Park over the past year, with lingering impacts continuing this year.
While COVID-19 restrictions have largely been lifted, visitors to the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the national forest and the national park will be impacted visually and physically as the busy Memorial Day weekend approaches.
The pandemic and the Cameron Peak Fire have put a significant crimp on recreating on the Roosevelt National Forest and in Rocky Mountain National Park over the past year, with lingering impacts continuing this year.
While COVID-19 restrictions have largely been lifted, visitors to the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the national forest and the national park will be impacted visually and physically as the busy Memorial Day weekend approaches.
The nearly 209,000-acre fire, the largest in state history, has closed large sections of the national forest and park. The burn scar is visible in large swaths of mountainsides along the Poudre River from Rustic west to Chambers Lake and in the park.
Joe Chinn was 8 years old when the family moved from Huntington to Cleveland, Ohio, in November 1948. Four years later, they returned to Huntington because his father was laid