'Freak event' sends water surge through Wyo. camp

The U.S. Forest Service is investigating the cause of a rush of water down a mountain that flooded an outfitter's campsite in central Wyoming. No one was hurt in the flash flood last Friday in the Wind River Mountains, although a woman and her two young grandchildren were stranded on a rock until they were helped to safety by Forest Service employees. Forest Service support services supervisor Connie Mock tells says that the water may have come from a glacial lake that overflowed. She described it as a "freak event." A hydrologist will determine the official cause of the flood, but Mock says the incident resembled a glacial flash flood event in 2003 that occurred in the same area and involved the same local outfitting company.