The weather this summer has been wetter than we're used to, so wet that we've seen a 75% increase in flooded basements and crawlspaces throughout the Front Range. This weather has also lead to a 42.9% increase of movement in existing structural damage. This translates to one fact: homes that have been dry and remained unmoving despite existing foundation problems for 7-10 yrs are wet and dramatically shifting. This isn't just happening here in Colorado, either. Across the world, we're seeing structural damage and flooding ruin residential structures. In fact, you've probably caught the rerun of Fox's "The Simpsons" recently, where Homer and Marge experience foundation problems in their home (click here to see excerpts).
Here are some articles that can discuss these issues and more:
Tom McGee of the Denver Post has an article entitled "Recent Colorado Storms Lash Insurers", which deals with the repercussions of the recent storms. He writes, "Insured damage from storms that pummeled the Front Range last week and in June tops half a billion dollars, making this the most expensive storm season since 1990, the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association said Monday". To read the full article, click here:http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_12926850
Maria St. Louis-Sanchez of the Colorado Springs Gazette writes, "A rare late-night thunderstorm pounded the Front Range on Monday, continuing the near daily deluge since June that has made this one of the wettest summers in El Paso County in recent years". Click here to read the rest of the article: http://www.gazette.com/articles/front-58835-paso-area.html
From New Dehli: IANS writes: "Renowned mountaineer Captain M.S. Kohli will perhaps never want to remember Monday's deluge that almost flooded the city. The man who led India's Everest expedition in 1965 lost in the flood 200 memorable photographs he had collected for the last 20 years.
'I had all those memories stored in the form of 500 photographs that I put up in my guest house in south Delhi called the Legend Inn. It is sometimes also called the Little Himalaya. Every room in the guest house is named after a peak and has photographs of my mountaineering experiences,' Kohli told IANS." To read the entire article, click here: http://www.samaylive.com/news/when-rains-washed-away-200-memorable-snaps-of-a-mountaineer/641229.html
Sarah Castellanos of the Denver Post writes about the unsoughtafter economic impact of the storms in her article found here: http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_12911074
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