Heavy rains and hail cause flooding and mudslides in Durango and the county.
Andy Mylroie searches for a drain on north Main Avenue on Wednesday evening after a storm passed through Durango flooding area streets.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Andy Mylroie searches for a drain on north Main Avenue on Wednesday evening after a storm passed through Durango flooding area streets.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Mounds of hail were left in the wake of a Wednesday evening storm.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald<br>
Mounds of hail were left in the wake of a Wednesday evening storm.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald<br>
Heavy rains flow down from Main Avenue to East Second Avenue on Wednesday evening.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Heavy rains flow down from Main Avenue to East Second Avenue on Wednesday evening.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Andy Mylroie, left, and Larry Haddon, search for a drain on north Main Avenue on Wednesday evening after a storm passed through Durango flooding area streets.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Andy Mylroie, left, and Larry Haddon, search for a drain on north Main Avenue on Wednesday evening after a storm passed through Durango flooding area streets.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Water covers 32nd Street near Holly Avenue on Wednesday evening after a storm passed through Durango.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Water covers 32nd Street near Holly Avenue on Wednesday evening after a storm passed through Durango.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Andy Mylroie searches for a drain on north Main Avenue on Wednesday evening after a storm passed through Durango flooding area streets.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Andy Mylroie searches for a drain on north Main Avenue on Wednesday evening after a storm passed through Durango flooding area streets.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Heavy rains flow down 30th Street to East Second Avenue on Wednesday evening.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Heavy rains flow down 30th Street to East Second Avenue on Wednesday evening.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 550 just north of Durango were closed with rock and debris flowing across the road.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 550 just north of Durango were closed with rock and debris flowing across the road.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Durango Fire & Rescue Authority and Durango Police Department responded to a house that was struck by lightning causing a small fire on East Seventh Avenue on Wednesday evening storm.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Durango Fire & Rescue Authority and Durango Police Department responded to a house that was struck by lightning causing a small fire on East Seventh Avenue on Wednesday evening storm.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Rocks cover Main Avenue and 32nd Street near on Wednesday evening after a storm passed through Durango.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Rocks cover Main Avenue and 32nd Street near on Wednesday evening after a storm passed through Durango.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 550 just north of Durango were closed with rock and debris flowing across the road.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 550 just north of Durango were closed with rock and debris flowing across the road.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Heavy rains flow down 30th Street to East Second Avenue on Wednesday evening.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Heavy rains flow down 30th Street to East Second Avenue on Wednesday evening.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 550 just north of Durango were closed with rock and debris flowing across the road.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 550 just north of Durango were closed with rock and debris flowing across the road.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Heavy rains flooded 32nd Street near East Second Avenue on Wednesday evening.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Heavy rains flooded 32nd Street near East Second Avenue on Wednesday evening.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Heavy rains flooded 32nd Street near East Second Avenue on Wednesday evening.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Heavy rains flooded 32nd Street near East Second Avenue on Wednesday evening.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Heavy rains flooded 32nd Street near East Second Avenue on Wednesday evening.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Heavy rains flooded 32nd Street near East Second Avenue on Wednesday evening.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Heavy rains flow down from Main Avenue to East Second Avenue on Wednesday evening.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Heavy rains flow down from Main Avenue to East Second Avenue on Wednesday evening.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Heavy rains flow down 32nd Street and Second Avenue on Wednesday evening.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Heavy rains flow down 32nd Street and Second Avenue on Wednesday evening.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Andy Mylroie, right, and Larry Haddon, search for a drain on north Main Avenue on Wednesday evening after a storm passed through Durango flooding area streets.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
Andy Mylroie, right, and Larry Haddon, search for a drain on north Main Avenue on Wednesday evening after a storm passed through Durango flooding area streets.
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald <br>
An intense rain storm Wednesday sent mud and rock down East Animas Road (County Road 250).
SHANE BENJAMIN/Durango Herald<br>
An intense rain storm Wednesday sent mud and rock down East Animas Road (County Road 250).
SHANE BENJAMIN/Durango Herald<br>
A bulldozer cuts a path through mud and rock Wednesday on East Animas Road (County Road 250) north of Durango.
SHANE BENJAMIN/Durango Herald <br>
A bulldozer cuts a path through mud and rock Wednesday on East Animas Road (County Road 250) north of Durango.
SHANE BENJAMIN/Durango Herald <br>
Butch Knowlton, director of La Plata County Office of Emergency Management, directs a bull dozer driver to cut a line through East Animas Road (County Road 250), where massive mudslides cutoff access to about a dozen homes north of Durango in the Animas Valley.
SHANE BENJAMIN/Durango Herald <br>
Butch Knowlton, director of La Plata County Office of Emergency Management, directs a bull dozer driver to cut a line through East Animas Road (County Road 250), where massive mudslides cutoff access to about a dozen homes north of Durango in the Animas Valley.
SHANE BENJAMIN/Durango Herald <br>
Jose Montaez heard the mudslide that covered a large swath of County Road 250 from his home only yards away. MontaÒez clears away some of the debris near his home on Wednesday afternoon.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald <br>
Jose Montaez heard the mudslide that covered a large swath of County Road 250 from his home only yards away. MontaÒez clears away some of the debris near his home on Wednesday afternoon.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald <br>
Crews begin clearing a mudslide on County Road 250 on Wednesday afternoon.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald <br>
Crews begin clearing a mudslide on County Road 250 on Wednesday afternoon.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald <br>
A rockslide on County Road 240 near Colvig Silver Camps.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald <br>
A rockslide on County Road 240 near Colvig Silver Camps.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald <br>
Crews begin clearing a mudslide on County Road 250 on Wednesday afternoon.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald <br>
Crews begin clearing a mudslide on County Road 250 on Wednesday afternoon.
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald <br>
Sep 18, 2013
Sudden storm strikes