Mobile home dwellers left behind after 2013 Colorado floods
By MICHAEL dE YOANNA today
GREELEY, Colorado (AP) When the flood waters in 2013 subsided, tens of thousands of evacuees along Colorados Front Range returned to see what happened to their homes. One of them was Amanda Anderson.
All of it was just mud, Anderson said. It was so dark in there because of the mud. It was like walking into a horror movie because it used to be so bright.
Her mobile home was trashed after the torrential September rains sent water crashing over the banks of the North and South St. Vrain creeks. Water rose at the confluence, flooding low-lying homes across the small mountain town north of Boulder.
Some homeowners returned, but that was never an option for Anderson and her neighbors at Riverbend Mobile Home Park. Their chances of a comeback were diminished before the first drop of rain hit the ground, according to Andrew Rumbach, an associate professor of urban and regional planning who studies mobile homes and natural disasters at the University of Colorado-Denver.
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