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IrelandPagosa Springs flood sweeps away bridge and undermines museum
AccuWeather's eyewitness footage shows a footbridge breaking apart and rooms left exposed above the swollen river.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 447,603 views a day, 18 times a normal first day on this channel (25,238).
This Is What Colorado Flooding Looks Like Right Now
The center span buckles, detaches and disappears downstream. In footage posted by AccuWeather, an arched pedestrian bridge in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, gives way within seconds as floodwater rushes beneath it.
The next view shows a different kind of damage: the river has eaten into the bank beneath the Pagosa Springs Museum. Rooms and structural supports are exposed above the fast-moving water, leaving part of the building hanging over the eroded edge. AccuWeather reports that heavy rain triggered destructive flooding across southwest Colorado.
The Short drew more than a quarter-million views in its first ten hours, already far beyond the channel's usual full-day audience for this format. Its comment section is also unusually busy, with the museum's plight becoming a particular focus.
These are two separate views of the damage, not one continuous recording. The bridge footage is credited to Alexis Reed Media and dated November 1; the museum footage is credited to @coloradomtnhuntress and dated November 2.
A town in southwestern Colorado and the county seat of Archuleta County. It had 1,571 residents at the 2020 census.
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- Channel
- AccuWeather
- Subscribers
- 2,180,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 13,716,990
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,844,836 (on a normal day: 1,513,163)
- Video published
- November 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 257,051 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 447,603
The numbers
The flooding clip passed AccuWeather's usual full-day Shorts audience within its first ten hours. Comments also exceeded the channel's typical first-day total.
