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Published: Mon, August 04, 2008 - 1:37 am
Last Updated: Mon, August 04, 2008 - 1:39 am
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - Darrell Johnson deals with the deadbut is very much alive despite being presumed otherwise after a
1976 Colorado flood.
Johnson says he owes it all to a lousy cabin at a resort.
Johnson and his family had decided to leave their shabby cabin
the morning of the flood after just one night. A few hours later,
the resort was washed away.
The 63-year-old Johnson told the Fort Collins Coloradoan for a
story Friday that he didn't know he had been counted among the 144
victims of the Big Thompson Canyon flood until a resident called
him last year.
Barb Anderson says residents didn't want Johnson's name on a
memorial plaque without proof he was dead.
How Johnson ended up on the victims list remains a mystery.
He now directs funerals in Oklahoma City and acknowledges he was
lucky to get the bad cabin.
Flooded Road Keeps Families Stranded
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