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\n\tThe town of Telluride, Colorado, which is at the base of the San Juan Mountain Range in the Rocky Mountains, is not unfamiliar with flash floods. But the downpour that suddenly hit the area last Friday afternoon was unusually strong and caused multiple mudslides that pummeled homes and businesses. \u201cIt was a pretty intense day,\u201d Telluride Fire Protection District chief John Bennett tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAmong the structures most impacted was the Michael D. Palm Theatre, the town\u2019s premier performing arts venue. The 30,000-square-foot, 667-seat venue, which is attached to the Telluride Intermediate School and the Telluride middle\/high school buildings, is used for school plays and graduation ceremonies, professional concerts and other outside events \u2014\u00a0including, each Labor Day weekend, the Telluride Film Festival, which makes use of its surround sound system, large format digital projector and wide screen for some of its highest-profile screenings.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the TFPD, which shared a statement and photos on its Facebook page, an official at the Telluride Intermediate School called the TFPD on Friday evening after discovering that water had poured into the Palm through a damaged loading dock door. By the time crews arrived at the scene, somewhere between 3 and 4 feet of water and mud had accumulated in the theater, engulfing all of the ground floor seats and rising to the height of the elevated stage.<\/p>\n

\n\tSusan Lilly, the TFPD\u2019s public information officer, tells THR<\/em> that the TFPD assessed the scene for urgent life-safety concerns, such as live electrical wires near pooled water, and then ceded it to the Telluride School District. Within hours, school district officials brought in dozens of people from Servpro, a cleanup and restoration company, who began using hoses to siphon water out of the main entrance of the Palm into the parking lot.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIs it realistic that the Palm will be habitable by the time the Telluride Film Festival kicks off on Sept. 4, less than six weeks from now? \u201cIt was a disaster over there,\u201d Lilly lamented \u2014\u00a0indeed, Palm Arts, a local arts organization, has begun seeking donations from the public \u201cto help restore and rebuild this treasured gathering place.\u201d But the school district and the film festival are working in tandem and doing everything they can to have it operational by then. In fact, the hope is that the Palm will be able to reopen two weeks before<\/em> the film fest, in time for Camp Alderwild, an EDM festival that comes to town annually.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe knew about the flood the day it happened,\u201d Telluride Film Festival chief Julie Huntsinger tells THR<\/em>. \u201cWe\u2019ve been working super closely with the school district, and we trust their representation that things will be ready in time for the festival. We know there\u2019s work that they will have to continue to do after the festival, but we trust that the pieces will be in place for the Palm in time for Labor Day weekend.\u201d She added with a chuckle, \u201cAnd please don\u2019t rain again<\/em>, so that we can have another great film festival!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJohn Pandolfo, the superintendent of the Telluride School District, and Nicole Hattler, the managing director of Palm Arts, could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

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