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reporter: dive teams were called in to perform rescues. you need another hand? but it was neighboring depending on neighbors to reach dry ground. this is what paul talbot saw outside his front door. we re from new england. we ve been through some of the worst blizzards, rainstorms. reporter: he s ridden out hurricanes before, this was different. i ve never seen rain lake this come down for so many days, just nonstop. reporter: with part of the university of colorado campus underwater, hundreds of students were ordered to higher ground. we are pleading with students and people on this campus to stay indoors. 12 dams have overflowed, sending a wall of water downstream. when the water came through, it came through as a torrent. reporter: 7.2 inches of rain fell in less than 24 hours. an all-time record. this is insane. yep. reporter: floods have devastated this region before. in 1976, the big thompson flood killed 145 and cost $40 million
but it was neighboring depending on neighbors to reach dry ground. something we had never seen here before. reporter: this is what paul talbot saw outside his front door. we re from new england. we ve been through some of the worst blizzards, rainstorms. reporter: he s ridden out hurricanes before, this was different. i ve never seen rain lake this come down for so many days, just nonstop. reporter: with part of the university of colorado campus underwater, hundreds of students were ordered to higher ground. we are pleading with students and people on this campus to stay indoors. 12 dams have overflowed, sending a wall of water downstream. when the water came through, it came through as a torrent. reporter: 7.2 inches of rain fell in less than 24 hours. an all-time record. this is insane. yep. reporter: floods have devastated this region before. in 1976, the big thompson flood killed 145 and cost $40 million in damages.
drenching and extended rainstorm caused dramatic and very dangerous flash flooding. nbc news s miguel almaguer reported it tonight from boulder. flash flooding is imminent. reporter: a day of chaos and confusion, as torrential rain pounds boulder, washing away homes, cars, and causing at least three deaths. they may not let you go back up that far. reporter: with thousands forced to evacuate, many were trapped by washed out roads. it started overnight with little warning. gary chambers and his wife were about to abandon their home when they heard a thunderous noise. a cloud crashing sound. just the boulders coming down the hill. the deck getting tore off the house. i don t know what all it was, but it sounded very destructive. reporter: dive teams were called in to perform rescues. you need another hand? but it was neighboring depending on neighbors to reach dry ground. this is what paul talbot saw outside his front door.
0 soviet union, including in kazakhstan. the official post-soviet line was, don t worry, all these nuclear sites are taken care of, they re all under guard. we don t need any help. we ve taken care of all of that stuff. so dr. siegfried hecker, this guy from los alamos you see on the right there, he goes out to kazakhstan alone and he goes to that test site. and when he s there, he sends back to his friends in the united states this picture. this is how that site with all the plutonium laying around was being guarded. see the traffic barriers there that are just left up, all the more convenient to drive up and down that road. the little house there covered in graffiti, it is supposed to be a guard post, but it is abandoned. there is nobody working there. that s how well-guarded that site was. what was happening on that site, amid total economic collapse in the region, was that people had started raiding that nuclear test site for scrap metal. and it wasn t just individual guys breaking