278: The Great Pueblo Flood

Seven Deadly Sinners

Rachael O'Brien

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, True Crime

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

One of the worst floods in Colorado history, struck on June 3–5, 1921. Between 150 and 250 people died in the deluge along the Arkansas River. The flood caused more than $25 million in damage, leading to the entire town being reshaped forever in its wake.

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0:00.0	My name is a
0:02.0	to guide me
0:05.0	Oh, yeah,
0:07.0	oh,
0:08.0	oh, Welcome back to another episode of Seven Deadly Sinners.
0:33.5	I hope you guys had the happiest of holidays and happy New Year.
0:37.8	We were taking a break for the holidays, but we're back, baby.
0:41.3	Yes, we are.
0:43.2	And the Pacers are playing tonight, go Pacers.
0:46.1	But I just want to go straight into it after saying, thank you guys so much for being with us for how many years have we been doing this?
0:55.6	Six years now? Well, we started in 2020 in 2020 yeah this would be the sixth year sixth year but not a sixth like five and a half at
1:01.0	this point i don't know we started out having like seasons technically per my records were in season
1:09.6	eight but how i started sectioning those off makes no
1:12.6	sense yeah we kind of pivoted to what I found interesting I'm a wild card yeah you know um but this is the
1:21.1	the sixth year we've been doing this as far as um seven deadly sinners well sitters. Well, you know,
1:27.9	I don't think it's been six years since we started,
1:30.0	but now we started in 2020 and this is 2026.
1:33.5	All right.
1:34.2	I love it.
1:35.6	And according to the Gregorian calendar,
1:37.6	we're in our sixth year.
1:38.9	Well.
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