{"id":1312046,"date":"2019-07-02T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/gypsum-flooding-forces-1-home-to-be-evacuated\/"},"modified":"2019-07-02T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T02:36:00","slug":"gypsum-flooding-forces-1-home-to-be-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/gypsum-flooding-forces-1-home-to-be-evacuated\/","title":{"rendered":"Gypsum flooding forces 1 home to be evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Crews stockpile sandbags where the swollen Eagle River threatened a residence at the Riverview Mobile Home Park Tuesday.<\/strong>
Pam Boyd \/ pboyd@vaildaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

GYPSUM \u2014 When raging water from the Eagle River swallowed five 30-foot trees from her yard Monday night, Gypsum resident Emily Elhert went into mama bear mode.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was definitely scary,\u201d Ehlert said. \u201cMy main concern was getting my kids out of there.\u201d<\/p>\n

After she dropped off her sons at their dad\u2019s house, she returned to her residence at the Riverview Mobile Home Park \u2014 but by around 10 p.m., officials told her it was best if she evacuated as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt started as just a small crack in the road and then the trees and the fence went,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen I pulled up this morning, I wasn\u2019t sure if my house would still be there in a few hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ehlert said that by Tuesday morning there was a big hole where her driveway used to be. Inside that big hole was a swirling cauldron of river water that continued to eat away at the riverbank.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I was going to lose everything when I went back home to pick up my animals,\u201d Ehlert said. \u201cI grabbed the animals and some important paperwork and that\u2019s all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Surging river<\/p>\n

Emergency personnel and town crews have been working to stem flood waters in Gypsum for the past two days. On Monday, the river flooded the Parkview neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Ehlert\u2019s residence was the only evacuation from the Riverview Mobile Home Park on Tuesday, but her neighbors anxiously watched the stabilization efforts throughout the day. The high water levels eroded more than 200 yards of dirt and the Eagle River is forecasted to fall and rise a couple more times, according to data from the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe water was within 12 feet of the rear of Emily\u2019s trailer,\u201d said Gypsum Public Works Director Jeff Shreeve.<\/p>\n

Shreeve estimated the eroded area was 14 to 16 feet deep and the crews brought in 160 yards of boulders and 200 yards of clay fill to stabilize the area. With the fill placed, crews then set to work shoring up the banks with sandbags.<\/p>\n

Ehlert said a friend paid for her and her boys to stay at a local hotel through Friday, the Eagle County Animal Shelter agreed to house her pets and many community members have reached out to help.<\/p>\n

\u201cI appreciate all the support I have gotten from my neighbors and the town,\u201d she said. \u201cGoing through this has been really scary. It\u2019s hard when you think you are going to lose everything you own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ehlert has been awed by the massive effort underway to stabilize the river bank adjacent to her home.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey must have made 50 dump truck drops,\u201d she noted. \u201cNow it\u2019s going to be a waiting game to see what happens next. They don\u2019t know what the river is going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Crews stockpile sandbags where the swollen Eagle River threatened a residence at the Riverview Mobile Home Park Tuesday.Pam Boyd \/ pboyd@vaildaily.com GYPSUM \u2014 When raging water from the Eagle River swallowed five 30-foot trees from her yard Monday night, Gypsum resident Emily Elhert went into mama bear mode. \u201cIt was definitely scary,\u201d Ehlert said. \u201cMy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1312046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 00:31:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}