Monday, July 23rd, 2007 — Residents of Alpine began shoveling mud out of their homes Sunday after they had been filled with up to 6 feet of sludge when a wall of mud overnight damaged half the homes in town. A severe thunderstorm dropped heavy rain and hail in the mountain town 20 miles southwest of Buena Vista on Saturday night, Chaffee County dispatcher Paige Croix said. "It was a deluge," Croix said. "Mostly cars are totally buried."