"Dead Man" Turns Up Alive 32 Years Later

This story has a personal twist-on our 1976 "Kerouac" cross-sountry drive, Gumby and Robinson and I were to camp in this very canyon when we got to Colorado. Due to unforseen circumstances, we left a day later than planned. That day late probably saved our lives.

"FORT COLLINS, Colo. - A man believed to have died in the Big Thompson flood has been found living in Oklahoma.

Darrell Johnson, 63, didn't know he had been counted among the 144 people who died in the flash flood that swept down Big Thompson Canyon on July 31, 1976 until he was called by canyon resident Barb Anderson last year."