Thread: Flood-weary Colorado awaits more rain; 218 people remain unaccounted for

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Lethal blend of weather, geography caused Colo. floods

Parked vehicles sit partially submerged near Greeley, Colorado, on Saturday, September 14. Flooding in Colorado has washed away roads and bridges and flooded homes. Authorities warned more rain was on the way, threatening more flooding. At least four people have been killed and hundreds are unaccounted for, officials say.


Brother and sister Eli and Noe Sura play in the mud around their Boulder, Colorado, home on September 14.


A National Guardsman stands at South Main and Missouri streets in Longmont, Colorado, on September 14.





Rescue personnel search for flood victims near Fort Collins, Colorado, on September 13.


Chris Rodes helps Fred Rob salvage a friend's belongings after floods left homes and infrastructure in shambles in Lyons, Colorado, on September 13.


During a break in the rain, a woman walks over a footbridge past the raging Boulder Creek in Boulder on September 13. Boulder County is one of the hardest-hit areas.

Suzanne Sophocles hugs her dogs after they were rescued from her flooded home on September 13 in Boulder. Thousands of people stranded by the flood waters in Colorado were finally able to come down by trucks and helicopters, two days after seemingly endless rain turned normally scenic rivers and creeks into coffee-colored rapids that wrecked scores of roads and wiped out neighborhoods.

Residents look at the flood damage along Topaz Street in Boulder, on September 13.


Water rushes where a bridge collapsed in a flash flood in Lyons, on September 13.

A man runs through the flood waters in a yard in Boulder on September 13.


Topaz Street resident Jake Koplen stands at the edge of his driveway after the street in front of his home was washed away in Boulder on September 13.


Brother and sister Patrick Tinsley and Mary Kerns head to Boulder from the mountain community of Magnolia, Colorado, on September 13.


Samantha Kinzig of Longmont, Colorado, and her 5-year-old daughter Isabel take a closer look at the damaged bridge on Weld County Road 1 on September 13.


A rubber ducky floats down Ninth Street alongside North Boulder Park in Boulder, on Thursday, September 12.


Highway 7 is completely blown out from the South St. Vrain River as a torrent of raging water rips through it about 12 miles west of Lyons on September 12.


A woman looks at the flooded Boulder Creek on September 12.


Nicky Toor, 15, floats on the flooded lawn of North Boulder Park in Boulder on September 12.



A city worker talks on his phone while surveying high water levels from Boulder Creek after flash flooding in downtown Boulder, Colorado, on September 12.


Flash flood waters rush over a walking path in downtown Boulder on September 12.


A man walks past the swelled Boulder Creek in Boulder on September 12.


People stand at the edge of floodwaters in Boulder on September 12.


A dive rescue team moves toward floodwaters in Boulder on September 12.


STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• NEW: More than 17,000 residential structures have been damaged; some 1,500 destroyed
• NEW: "It's funny the things you think are important," says one evacuee
• Another person is presumed dead, which could bring the overall death toll to six

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