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Alpine Colorado Mudslides
July 31, 2007 | Denver Post

Mudslides last week in Alpine Colorado wiped out roads, damaged buildings and forced the evacuation of 98 people. The slides damaged one half of the buildings in the town and are blamed on exceptional amounts of rain during the past month. No injuries were reported.


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