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‘Unprecedented’ flooding prompts evacuations in southwest Colorado; Polis issues verbal disaster declaration
LA PLATA COUNTY, Colo. — Flooding brought on by heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Priscilla is damaging homes and prompting evacuations in southwest Colorado. A local disaster was declared in unincorporated La Plata County Saturday after hundreds of homes north of Vallecito Lake were evacuated due to flooding. On Sunday, Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D)…