Flooding in Colorado

Let me begin by saying I lived the majority of my life in Missouri. I have lived through tornados, wildfires, flooding, blizzards, and extreme temperatures and weather fluctuations. I've even experienced a mild earthquake and fallout from hurricanes. I have witnessed the horrific power and beauty of electrical storms. I have seen the influx of locust and tiny frogs where it seemed one crunched underfoot with each step. And, yes, it all happened within southern Missouri.
I thought by moving to arid Colorado and living at an altitude of around 7000 feet, I would leave some of those disasters behind. Take flooding for instance...
You see, it's been my lot that every house I've ever lived in has flooded at one time or another. I hoped to break the curse.
Well, I'm here to inform you the curse is alive and well. The annual rainfall in my CO city averages around 30 inches a year and we received around half of it in less than two days. The basement, of course, flooded. Yesterday was spent syphoning out water and throwing out everything we'd stored down there. I've salvaged a few Christmas items but anything fabric had to go.
I was so focused on my own woes, I hadn't turned on the news until last night. Poor Boulder CO and others even closer who have had such devastating losses. My heart goes out to you.
In comparison, we got off easy.