| Show SUCH THING AS REAL cloudburst remembering Kemem bering the heavy rain ot of a few hour hours and the pyrotechnic duplay display which it surju sun lav night the damage in the canyons and along aa gu pilcha lelles hf r filch ire dry nine tenth of the time an all extract from the literary digest en on li is timely the digest said on june 23 25 the devastating flood floods in colorado were said to be due to and a chicago technical nia madair tais re marks that there are many people who till believe bellee that sometime sometimes cloud clouds in release the tile water chev carry it proceeds to set forth the fact as follow follows cloudburst occur oliv in or of near lilly hilly or mountainous areas and are most frequent in ill arid re regions Ions the tl if its n necess irv for a cloudburst ar fir first a verv erv heava donI downour our of ral rail rall L for several everal fi hour hours secondly a steep wa te rhel and a oil that dors does p t calill rail 11 absorb water lav oil that has bien ben bake bakel I 1 harl 1 y th sun un i li a condition idt ideal at for very verv following a rain such buell soils are common la the art aril I 1 re ions ion nl len raja I 1 leans fin to fill more rap illy alian it tie e eoll soil can absorb it the first t thin illa ai lait t t of water that flows flow 8 lown tl it watercourse watercourses in elowe Al I 1 lecausi because the friction of the water 1 greater grea great tir cr the shallower shallo loer er it tie e stream the friction acts like a dam lolling 1 ol 01 the lack tack hence it follows flat the water teals ten Is to back up a that the lie rain that fell first la Is overtaken b rain that fell many min utes later tho the deeper the stream the taster it aloiss consequently the time t C 9 wien len the floal rapidly dow the watercourse its front crest crest often I 1 eing several feet deep an ani I 1 look arg ii like a hue huge sea wave ae about to break on a shore in the early speculations about buch uell flou it was ft as perhaps natural to au ul p pos 0 that a cloud had suddenly spilled its i interi content contents even aa as a burti rg dam might 1 release its stored M water ater it aas lot that the friction of water upon earth can pro luce th 3 iff t ff ct of a dam hoi hot ling ung back the fir first firt t part of a rainfall until the more rabidly rai itly iong ria vIng water that ha hat I 1 alien fallen later I 1 la a I 1 0 overtaken it ing ng a wall of water nater leeral 1 feet leep ohp Vr kansas river abre pueblo is s a mountain stream fel by many matty creek creeks the soil tl rough which it flow flows near pueblo Is a clay it atiat at had been bake baket hard an aa exceptionally heavy rainfall over a large area oe corred these are the conditions above enumerated a as existing whenever a cloudbursts loud burst |
