Nearly a year’s worth of precipitation pounded the state in less than a week, causing a historic 100-year flood.
Residents embrace near a washed-out home in Jamestown, Colo. on Sept. 14, 2013. Flooding hit the mountain community hard, and residents were trapped for days with no road into or out of town.
Kim Schuler carries his wife, Cheryl, across water and mud Sept. 12, 2013. Son Kyle also exits the Boulder home with some of the belongings they could salvage. The first floor of the home was flooded with 4 feet of water. The town of Lyons was flooded by the north and south forks of the St. Vrain River on Sept. 13, 2013. Rescuers in Lyons scrambled to evacuate residents because the only bridge into the town began to crumble.
Brian Marquedt, left, and Scott Johnson, right, assist Dan Hull in leaving his flooded home on Hygiene Road in Hygiene on Sept. 14, 2013."I never would have gone alone," said Hull, whose two cats were rescued earlier."I chose the people I wanted to go with me. When you get in a life-threatening situation, you want to be holding onto someone you trust, someone who is going to save your life.
A junkyard on East 37th Street and First Avenue in Evans sits in rising floodwater from the South Platte River.
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