July 31 was the 32nd anniversary of the Big Thompson flood between Estes Park and Loveland, Colorado in 1976. 144 people were identified as dead including six who were missing/presumed dead. Earlier this month one of those missing people turned up alive in Oklahoma, and he hadn't realized he was on the list of missing until this year.

His name is Darrell Johnson and he was in Estes Park around the time of the flood but when home a day earlier than planned. The place where he was staying in Estes Park reported him as missing because he never got in touch with them to say he had made it back home safely. On the news he said that his family didn't like where they were staying so they left a day early without telling anyone.

Here is the link to the interview:
AOL Video - Flood Victim

What I want to know is how he was the only one of his family listed as missing when he wasn't the only one who left early. I guess it doesn't matter. Somewhere I have a book with the list of those killed and missing.

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