Officials: No unnecessary travel on all county roads in Goshen County (Laramie: houses, move)

[jody_wy]

Recent heavy rainfall and upstream water releases has prompted emergency management officials to ask motorists to avoid all unnecessary travel in Goshen County.
Officials said that “moderate to severe flooding is occurring along the Laramie River near Fort Laramie.” They said that numerous county roads are underwater, impassable, or washed out.
KNEB Radio

[branDcalf]

Good information, Jody.

A day ago, a friend passed on an alert that the "Dry fork of the Laramie River is running over the road." They sure are getting caught up (and then some, maybe) on their rain down in Platte and Goshen counties.

[Tonybaloneytoys]

Torrington has been getting hit pretty hard the last few days. My rain bucket has 6 inches of standing water in as of this afternoon. Coming back from church yesterday in Harrison Neb, back to Lusk, it rained so hard the hiway had about an inch of water on it making the drive a wee bit slower.

[ScottStielow]

Looks like a pretty rough Memorial day weekend, state wide in Wyoming.
Hopefully you will get a break in all the rain this week?

[sunsprit]

Have a trip planned later today to the Thermop area.

Road closed due to rock or mud slide near Boysen Dam at today 2:29 AM. Winter conditions on the roads in the area, too.

We'll see if this is cleared by later this AM, otherwise we're postponing.

[jody_wy]

the other way to Thermop probably too muddy

[North Beach Person]

I have a question.

Are there people out there who are the same as the morons here, who will hear this warning and go out just because "it can't be that bad"?

[jody_wy]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

I have a question.

Are there people out there who are the same as the morons here, who will hear this warning and go out just because "it can't be that bad"?

have not heard of any deaths, seen a lot of closed roads around the State. Haven't heard of any major sand bagging going on. Couple years ago UW football Team went to a small town and sandbagged to help save houses.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by jody_wy

have not heard of any deaths, seen a lot of closed roads around the State. Haven't heard of any major sand bagging going on. Couple years ago UW football Team went to a small town and sandbagged to help save houses.

That's a good thing, I would give those guys kudos. Here many of the businesses in the flood zone won't sandbag (we fill them, they have to pick them up at the PW yard) they won't even move stuff up off the floor. They do, however, expect the Town's Public Works crew to do it for them.

[WyattE]

Any way to pipeline all this water or melted snow to California?