Rivers running high in La Plata County
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>The waters of the Animas River breeches it’s banks north of Durango Thursday.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald <br>Water is released from Vallecito Reservoir Thursday.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>Water is released from Vallecito Reservoir Thursday
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>Water is released from Vallecito Reservoir Thursday.
Steve Lewis/Durango Herald<br>This City of Durango Street Division truck was parked on top of a storm drain at Holly Avenue and Florida Road on Thursday afternoon.
Steve Lewis/Durango Herald<br>Thursday’s storm brought marble-sized hail to Durango.
Steve Lewis/Durango Herald<br>“It hasn’t been like this for eight years,” said Greg Martin, who was out kayaking with friends on Thursday afternoon at Santa Rita Park
Steve Lewis/Durango Herald<br>The Durango Fire Protection District responded to a lightning strike on Thursday afternoon at 350 East 32nd Street. The Durango Police Department blocked off 32nd Street between East Third Avenue and East Fourth Avenue in both directions while firefighters worked on the house.
Steve Lewis/Durango Herald<br>The Durango Fire Protection District responded to a lightning strike on Thursday afternoon at 350 East 32nd Street. Robyn Tucson, right, comforts her grandmother, Phyllis Salazar, the owner of the home.
Steve Lewis/Durango Herald<br>The Durango Fire Protection District responded to a lightning strike on Thursday afternoon at 350 East 32nd Street. The owner of the home, Phyllis Salazar, said no one was at home at the time of the strike. The Durango Police Department blocked off 32nd Street between East Third Avenue and East Fourth Avenue in both directions while firefighters worked on the house.
Jerry McBride/Durango Herald <br>John Harper, with the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, looks down from a helicopter on Thursday morning for any potential problems that the high water flows in the Animas River that runs alongside the train tracks might have caused overnight.
Jerry McBride/Durango Herald <br>The Animas River flows just under a couple of Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad bridges on Thursday morning south of Silverton.
Jerry McBride/Durango Herald <br>A Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad crew surveys erosion of the bank of the Animas River next to the tracks south of Silverton on Thursday morning. John Harper with the railroad flew in a helicopter from Durango to Silverton looking for any problems that the high water flows may have caused. Earlier water had been over the tracks but not enough to stop the scheduled trains to Silverton.
Jerry McBride/Durango Herald <br>A Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad train makes its way towards Silverton on Thursday morning next to the high flowing water in the Animas River that runs alongside the train tracks.
Jerry McBride/Durango Herald <br>A Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad employee inspects the Tank Creek dam Thursday morning south of Silverton.
Jerry McBride/Durango Herald <br>The Animas River flows wide south of Silverton after Mineral Creek empties into the river on Thurday.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>A car drives across a bridge over the swollen Los Pinos River Thursday along CR 501.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>Children walk along the River Trail next to the high waters of the Animas River downstream fro the 15th Street bridge in Durango Thursday.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald <br>The waters of the Animas River rise along the supports of the 15th Street bridge Thursday.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>The waters of the Animas River rise along the supports of the 15th Street bridge Thursday.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>Kayakers navigate the high waters of the Animas River downstream fro the 15th Street bridge in Durango Thursday.
Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald<br>Jennifer Densie, a Hydrologic Technician with USGS takes water flow measurements in the Animas River off the footbridge upstream from the Ninth Street bridge Thursday.
Steve Lewis/Durango Herald<br>Sean Pennington, left, and Colin Mason of Badger Daylighting remove water pooling on the grounds of The Lumien on Thursday on East 32nd Street.
