{"id":1426,"date":"2013-09-19T17:17:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T17:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikwax.wordpress.com\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2024-10-24T09:46:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T08:46:25","slug":"gear-rehab-can-help-flooded-colorado-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikwax.com\/en-us\/posts\/gear-rehab-can-help-flooded-colorado-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Gear Rehab Can Help Flooded Colorado Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nikwax.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/boulder_flood_bike.jpg\" alt=\"boulder_flood_bike\" class=\"wp-image-1427\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We knew we were in trouble on Sept. 12, when the rain, which had been falling without break for four days, came down even harder. From my second-story home office, I could hear the nearby creek thunder like a herd of galloping clysdales. The street outside our house morphed into a river with water reaching above the wheels of parked cars. Twitter was going mad with the hashtag #boulderflood, texts were coming in from friends whose apartments and houses flooded, and I, a Colorado native more acclimated to hot and dry weather than monsoon torrents, realized I was in the midst of something far beyond my control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then our house flooded, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn\u2019t that bad, relatively speaking. I live in southwest Boulder in a split-level ranch, and the flood forced us to rip out drenched carpet from our basement. Our couch got wet. Totally manageable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surrounding me, though, was devastation. Houses torn from their foundations by waves of muddy water. People buried under the rubble of their homes or swept from their cars by quick-moving waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The death toll from the notorious 100-year-flood that slammed Colorado\u2019s Front Range is holding at six, so far. Thousands of people required helicopter evacuations and may not be allowed to return to their homes in the foothills for weeks because the roads going there are trashed and impassable. The mayhem in and around Boulder promises to linger. The city\u2019s bike paths\u2014which, thankfully, also served as flood mitigation\u2014are closed for safety, and the streets are littered with dried mud and rocks. Important bridges are snapped in two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bright side, of course, is the community effort rallying behind those hit the worst. Neighbors are taking in neighbors. People are donating clothing, labor, office space, money, and more to help those in need. We are all digging deep to find reserves of patience, perseverance, and humor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But sometimes, even funny things don\u2019t seem funny in the aftermath of a flood. I\u2019m thinking specifically about my friend, Kate\u2019s, Gore-Tex jacket, which she has had since 1998, and which has been with her to Canada, Thailand, France, California, Colorado, Wyoming, and countless other destinations. This jacket lived in the basement of her Boulder home and was submerged when her basement flooded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It really might have been the \u201cstraw that broke the camel\u2019s back.\u201d That jacket, already well loved, got it bad. Now it stinks, has an odd texture, and is the last thing you\u2019d want to wear, even in a rainstorm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But back to that community effort for a moment. Not only are locals helping out. Nationally, people have been offering assistance to those affected by the flood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One such offer comes from the folks at Nikwax and their \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikwaxna.com\/gearrehab\/\">Gear Rehab<\/a>\u201d program. Granted, this offer was established before the floods. But now there are probably thousands of jackets and gloves and ski pants just like Kate\u2019s. Nikwax wants to make sure my friends and I know we can send in \u201cflooded\u201d gear to Nikwax U.S. headquarters, and they\u2019ll rehab it and send it back to you for free. Check out the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikwaxna.com\/gearrehab\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll be the first to say that a stanky jacket is the least of most flood victims&#8217; worries. &nbsp;But restore that jacket, and there\u2019s one less expense flooded residents have to worry about. That\u2019s really cool. Thanks, Nikwax. Now\u2026about my couch\u2026&nbsp; <strong>\u2014Rachel Walker<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We knew we were in trouble on Sept. 12, when the rain, which had been falling without break for four days, came down even harder. From my second-story home office, I could hear the nearby creek thunder like a herd of galloping clysdales. 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