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JEFFREY BROWN (NewsHour): The song is called “Little Rain,” but it’s about a very big rain and its aftermath, the flooding of the town of Lyons, Colorado, in the foothills of the Rockies last September.
K.C. Groves is in the band Watermills, formed after the disaster.
K.C. GROVES: We were trying to address what happened and also represent, you know, the — our strengths and even strength of spirit and our joy even that we still had in this town, but still express the gravity of what happened.
JEFFREY BROWN: What happened is something that no one here had ever seen, the St. Vrain River jumping its banks. Video shot by local residents captured the scene, as the river divided Lyons into a series of islands, cutting off this small town of 2,000 from the world for three days.
One person died; 200 houses were damaged.
Musician David Tiller talked to the NewsHour just after he was evacuated.
DAVID TILLER: Seeing the faces of the houses blown on and realizing that there was nothing salvageable, really, that — nothing of the house that I could tell that may be salvageable, I don’t even know how to describe it.
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