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How many of these Colorado summer festivals will you hit?

Local rainfall standards, which affect the design of everything from roads to bridges and stormwater systems, offer a clue whether a city or state is taking infrastructure resilience seriously. Outdated standards remain in many areas, like in the Pacific Northwest.

Colorado summer festival guide 2024: Make the most of summer by attending Colorado festivals and events like the Boulder Creek Festival and Colorado Lavender Festival, Chalk Art, Plein Air. Telluride Blues and Brews, Palisade Peach, Vail Wine, Beaver Creek

St. Francis and Mitty softball down East Bay opponents, De La Salle routs Granite Bay, Crystal Uplands runner shines at Arcadia Invitational

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The recent Times Square incident was a big inconvenience for commuters and MTA staff. But can cities get better at preventing them?

Blame the old pipes.

The crack of a summer thunderstorm once comforted people in Ludlow, Vermont. But that was before a storm dropped eight inches of rain on the village of

The crack of a summer thunderstorm once comforted people in Ludlow, Vermont. But that was before a storm dropped eight inches of rain on the village of 2,200 in two days last month. And it was before the devastation of Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. Now a coming rainstorm can stir panic.

Some metro areas have an especially large proportion of sewage treatment centers at risk if a mega flood occurred today, AP found. They include: South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, bridging Indiana and Michigan; Charleston-Huntington-Ashland, bridging West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky; Madison-Janesville-Beloit in Wisconsin and Syracuse-Auburn, New York.