By Kathy Chouteau
Annie Hayes, the iconic founder of Richmondâs Annieâs Annuals & Perennials, is retiring. Hayes announced the news on her Facebook page on Valentineâs Day, while also introducing Sarah Hundley as the retail and mail order nurseryâs new owner. Hayes had worked in her role as founder and owner for nearly 30 years, per her post. The nursery will retain the âAnnieâsâ name, according to staff member Elayne Takemoto.
âIt was a great adventure creating and running such a beautiful and joyful place together with all our wonderful workers,â stated Hayes in a post that appeared on both her and Annieâs Annuals & Perennials Facebook pages. âMy only goal when I began was to have a nice place to go to work with nice people and to play with plants. My dream job came trueâlucky me!â
fortunately, in the city of boulder, we do have some evacuation orders still in place right along the creek and where the mouth of boulder creek is, but a lot of people are in their homes. we ve got a lot of people who are bailing water out of their homes still, and that s likely to continue. all right, sarah hundley with boulder colorado emergency management, we so appreciate your update. thank you. thank you, bye-bye. sure. to find out how you can help the victims of the colorado floods, visit our impact world page at cnn.com/impact. we ll be watching for those kids. 150 of them. yeah, hopefully, they re all right, they re safe. let s dip south to new mexico, bus they re dealing with floods, as well. flooding in three counties has forced the governor to declare a state of emergency. evacuations have been ordered in eddie, sierra, san miguel counties. hundreds have been evacuated both by air and ground, and the governor s order now provides desperately needed state funds to th
they have food and water and no injuries reported. but it s going to be a priority today to try to fix the road that we need to fix to get to them so that we can get them home to their families. how are they in any danger of flooding where they are today? we are hopeful that we ll be able to get them out before late afternoon and early evening, which is when we expect the next wave of storms. we did get a nice respite overnight in terms of active rain, and that s helping us be able to get better assessment of what we need to do to try to prepare us for the next round. okay, so, sarah, you said 180 kids that are trapped right now in an area i should clarify. it s about 150 kids and they have 38 adult counselors with them. all righty, okay, okay. adult counselors. so we ll be watching it, hopefully you ll get to them today. and last but not least, boy, how long do you think people will have to stay out of their homes at this point? you know, it s really too early to tell
11:00 eastern. of course, we ll bring that to you live. you just heard nick talk about the fact that, thankfully, the rain did kind of let up a little bit overnight. it allows first responders to catch their breath at this point a bit. but there s another deluge expected today. so let s get on the phone with boulder colorado s sarah hundley, a spokeswoman for boulder s office of emergency management. sarah, thank you so much for being with us. first of all, let me ask you. what is your most urgent concern right now? so we still have active rescue operations occurring in parts of boulder county today. you mentioned previously both lyons and jamestown have people still in need of aid, and those areas are still cut off to road crews. so we ll be doing air evacuations to get those folks the help they need and get them to safer locations. we also have about 180 schoolchildren who were on a camping excursion who are not able to be accessed at this point. they are all safe. we have cont
the glitz, gowns, and gossip on new york s red carpet. 10:00 in the east, as we know you re getting your morning in gear. glad to have you with us. i m christi paul. i m victor blackwell. 10:00 as you said on the east coast, 7:00 out west, you re in the cnn newsroom. this morning, we re starting in colorado. a difficult time for people there. we ve watched the waters rush through the communities. more rain could add to their misery. thousands are already devastated by the massive flooding there. the water stopped flowing out of our house, still flowing out of the creek some. you can see the slabs of concrete that floated on top of the old road. well, it s damaged more than just the roads. the raging water already blamed for at least four deaths, and more than 200 people unaccounted for. now, we know that in two towns, they ve been cut off by swollen waterways and debris, so the national guard troops used helicopters and high-water trucks to evacuate a lot of the f