Colorado flood map:
Vhttp://www.usatoday.com/...
Colorado proposed secession map:
http://i.huffpost.com/...
(note that I think the USA today map is tonight obsolete as Phillips and Sedgwick Counties are now affected by the flood).
Link to some things the State of CO is doing for the flood-affected counties:
http://www.colorado.gov/...
I read with great interest and concern about the un/under reported story of the oil industry's impact on the environment in the CO flooding in NE Colorado. Thank you to that diarist for bringing that to our attention and there was a lead story on Denver Post's website today to that issue (not a great article but it's out there now). I suspect that the folks behind getting that issue out there were behind the MSM paying attention to it today.
Watching the local news today and specifically the politician's news' conference where Gov. Hickenlooper, Sens. Udall and Bennet, and Congressman Cory Gardner (R - Colowingnutistan that wants to secede) were doing their "I'm concerned because I wear jeans and fly in helicopters" thing, no one asked about how screwed these seceding counties would be in this disaster if they were on their own. How is this not a news' story considering that the secessionist movement has been reported nationally? It seems beyond dispute that the current intact state of Colorado is going to aid and rebuild the infrastructure of these secession-wannabe counties (and I'm happy to cut my check on April 15 to the Colorado Department of Revenue to help these counties even though it's not my county). It would be nice if the media pointed out to the whiny tea-partiers, who are actually officially going to vote on secession this November because they can't handle having lost in the last election, that there are issues more important than getting your way 100% of the time. Namely: that the rest of Colorado is there for them whether they like it or not.