Event narrative (NOAA)
Thunderstorms with heavy rain moved across the Snowy Range and Brush Creek area on State Highway 130 between 9 pm and midnight on July 18. Debris carried down Brush Creek by runoff from the heavy rainfall clogged the drainage culvert at milepost 55.8 on State Highway 130, about 13 miles east of the junction with State Highway 230. As a result, water washed away the pavement around the culvert and created a 25-foot wide, 9-foot deep trench in the road just before 1 am on July 19. Four members of a Colorado Springs family died after their van drove into the washout and was swept downstream by the raging creek as they fled flash flooding at a nearby campground shortly after 1 am. The driver of the van managed to escape from the van, which was submerged to its rooftop. Minutes later, the
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.