Aug 17

Grand Canyon floods breach dam, force evacuations (AP)

In this photo released by the the National Park Service (NPS), an NPS employee is lowered down to a point overlooking the confluence of Havasu Creek and the Colorado River where one of 16 stranded rafters is waiting to be short hauled out. An earthen dam broke near the Grand Canyon early Sunday after heavy rains that forced officials to pluck hundreds of residents and campers from the gorge by helicopter. A private boating party of 16 people was stranded on a ledge at the confluence of Havasu Creek and the Colorado River after flood waters carried their rafts away. The boaters were found uninjured and were being rescued from the canyon, whose floor is unreachable in many places except by helicopter. (AP Photo/National Park Service)AP - Days of heavy rains around the Grand Canyon created flooding that breached an earthen dam Sunday and forced helicopters to pluck scores of residents and campers from the gorge. No…
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