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  • The Big Thompson River rages through the washed-out Loveland Water Storage Reservoir in Larimer County, Colo. on Sept. 14, 2013.
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  • The town of Lyons is flooded by the North and South Vrain Creeks on September 13, 2013. Rescuers in Lyons were scrambling to evacuate residents because the only bridge into the town was beginning to crumble.
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  • Susan Elston, overwhelmed after being rescued from the flooded town of Lyons, receives help from a first-aid station at LifeBridge Christian Church in Longmont on Sept. 13, 2013.
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  • Casey Roy, 9, peers through a basement window at her family's home on Premier Place in north Boulder. Floodwater rose to 3 feet in the basement on Sept. 12, 2013.
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  • HYGIENE, CO - SEPTEMBER 13: Flood waters  have consumed a house along Hygiene Road east of North 61st street and west of Hygiene, CO on September 14, 2013. Massive flooding continues in 14 continues in Colorado.  (Photo By Helen H. Richardson/ The Denver Post)
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  • HYGIENE, CO. - SEPTEMBER 14:  Dan Hull searches for cats in his flooded home on Hygiene Road in Hygiene,  CO September 14, 2013.  (Photo By Craig F. Walker / The Denver Post)
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  • Residents embrace near a washed-out home in Jamestown, Colo. on Sept. 14, 2013. Flooding hit the mountain community extremely hard, and residents have been trapped for three days with no road into or out of town.
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  • Colleen Keane tries to salvage clothing by washing it out in the gutter in front of her home near Iris Avenue and Ninth Street Avenue in Boulder, Colo. on Sept. 16, 2103. Keane rents the basement of this house which was completely flooded from the overflowing Two Mile Creek. Crews are working to clean up the mess, clearing all of Keane's and her roommate's belongings from the water and mud. Water reached the ceiling of the basement of the house.
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  • A junkyard on East 37th Street and First Avenue in Evans, Colo., sits in rising floodwater from the South Platte River.
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  • Residents of homes along 37th Street in Evans carry belongings from their flooded homes on Sept. 16, 2013. Evans remained under a no-flush order as 260 homes were totaled or damaged by the Colorado floods.
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  • EVANS, CO - SEPTEMBER 17: From left, Dale Reeves, Kathryn Reeves, and Trent Mayes helps their  elderly family member in Evans carry out belongings from their flooded homes, September 17, 2013. Massive flooding continues to hit Colorado. (Photo By RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
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  • Three vehicles lie in a creek after raging floodwater undercut Dillon Road near U.S. 287 in Broomfield, Colo. on Sept. 12, 2013. The three motorists were rescued from the vehicles after emergency workers secured the vehicles with ropes and the motorists scrambled up the banks of the creek.
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  • The Alpine Rescue Team uses a high line and a sling stretched across Four Mile Canyon to rescue Darian Shaw from her Salina home. Shaw and three neighbors were brought across the rushing water. The Alpine Rescue Team, Four Mile Fire and Rocky Mountain Rescue Team worked to get people out after heavy rains caused flash flooding and washed away most of the town.
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  • LYONS, CO. - SEPTEMBER 18: Lyons resident Perry Corn waits with his wife, Angie, at a checkpoint at the junction of highways 66 & 36 in Lyons, CO September 18, 2013. He said, "we're going to see what we can salvage and make sure no one runs off with the rest. We tried to tough it out till Saturday but with 3 dogs and the 2 of us we decided to heed the warnings." Now staying with friends he concluded, "my belief in the human spirit has been rejuvenated we'e been so fortunate to have great people around us, taking care of us." Residents were being allowed to return to their homes Thursday. (Photo By Craig F. Walker / The Denver Post)
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  • PINEWOOD SPRINGS, CO - SEPTEMBER 22: CDOT executive director Don Hunt's dog, Sasha, walks near a ledge of broken road during a tour to look at the damage caused by recent flooding in the area on U.S. Highway 36 between Lyons and Pinewood Springs. Pavement is missing in many section of the road that connects Lyons to Estes Park. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)
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  • LYONS, CO. - SEPTEMBER 20: Brenna Willis cleans out cupboards at the home she shares with her partner Emma Birath in Lyons, CO September 20, 2013. She said they had 10 inches of water in the house and they were trying to salvage what they could.  Birath said, "when we got here it was a bit of a shock. It looked worse than we thought. Water can do a lot of damage." Friday was the second day residents were allowed to return to their homes.  (Photo By Craig F. Walker / The Denver Post)
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  • GLEN HAVEN, CO - SEPTEMBER 30: Main street or Co Road 43 going through the town of Glen Haven, CO is completely gone on September 30, 2013. The road from here to Drake, Co 8 miles down is over 85% destroyed.  With little help currently from the outside world, except for the local electric company trying to establish electricity in the community, residents of the small mountain hamlet of Glen Haven, Co are picking up the pieces themselves on September 30, 2013.  (Photo By Helen H. Richardson/ The Denver Post)
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  • LYONS, CO - DECEMBER 19, 2013:   Al Goranson,  works on building a new foundation under his lifelong friend Dave Orback's home at 347 Park Street in Lyons, CO on December 19, 2013.  Orback has raised the house to put a new and higher foundation under his home of 43 years. Since the disastrous flooding wiped out their town, the town has banded together to help everyone in need.  Their motto has become "Lyons isn't home until everyone is home."  Many home owners still face daunting tasks of cleaning up their properties and deciding wether or not to rebuild. (Photo By Helen H. Richardson/ The Denver Post)
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  • SALINA, CO. - September 26: Flood damage is still prevalent through Salina as cars lie in the creek and much of the ground is washed from under the front of the home of Matt Smart in Four Mile Canyon on September 26, 2013 Salina, Colo. (Photo By Joe Amon/The Denver Post)
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  • Brian Marquedt, left, and Scott Johnson, right, assist Dan Hull in leaving his flooded home on Hygiene Road in Hygiene, Colo. 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."
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  • Four Mile Creek, which usually dries up by the end of summer, roared in a pitch of churning water, tumbling boulders, cracking trees and destroying all roads through Salina, Colo. Boulder County Emergency Management said more than 1,500 people were evacuated with assistance from the area. Although most of the evacuees were physically fine, they had gone days without electricity, phone service and information.
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  • Rescuers help Salina resident Douglas Burger, 76, out of Four Mile Canyon. Floodwaters ripped through the mountain town of Salina, stranding residents and cutting off all roads into the town. Burger was brought across the rushing water in a sling with three neighbors. The Alpine Rescue Team, Four Mile Fire and Rocky Mountain Rescue Team worked to get people out Sept. 13, 2013.
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  • BOULDER, CO - SEPTEMBER 29: Fallon Waycasey, right and Greg Newham, left, with Bob's Piano Sales & Service, guide a 1933 Mason & Hamlin grand piano into the air as chains from a crane parked below on Canyon blvd lift it over high voltage power lines in Boulder, Co on September 29, 2013.  Piano teacher Carolyn Meyer, not shown, lost her house to the recent floods that ravaged Boulder county and 13 other counties in Colorado. The piano miraculously survived the flooding and mudslides that overtook the house.  The piano weighs about 1,000 lbs and will be kept in storage until Carolyn finds a new place to live.  Don Gulbrandson, owner of Bob's Piano Service is at left on the back of piano.  (Photo By Helen H. Richardson/ The Denver Post)
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  • BOULDER, CO - Oct. 19: Jameson Leo, second from right, joins fellow volunteers as they work to remove several feet of mud from the inside of pool area in the backyard of a Boulder home. A group of volunteers from the Headwaters Relief Organization from the Minnesota area arrives in Colorado to give assistance to the flood victims in the Longmont and Boulder areas. Lead by Dr. Rebecca Thomley, the group of about 30 volunteers work on mud removal and clean up at a home in the Crestview neighborhood in Boulder and then head to Lyons to work with children and families there that are suffering the after effects from the flooding. (Photo By Kathryn Scott Osler/The Denver Post)
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  • 25ep hwy36b.JPG hwy36b.jpg Colorado National Guard soldiers lead a group of CDOT and state employees during a tour to look at the damage caused by recent flooding in the area on U.S. Highway 36 between Lyons and Pinewood Springs. Pavement is missing in many section of the road that connects Lyons to Estes Park. (Photo by Aaron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)
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  • LONGMONT, CO - September 19 : Rick Marquardt from Wyoming is moving mud and debris out from Dan Hull's house that is damaged by flooding water. Longmont, Colorado. September 19, 2013.  (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
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  • LONGMONT, CO - September 19 : Rick Marquardt from Wyoming is moving mud and debris out from his father Bill's house in 7290 Hygiene Rd. Longmont, Colorado. September 19, 2013.  (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
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  • The Colorado National Guard escorts a woman and her child from one of its CH-47 Chinook helicopters at Boulder Municipal Airport. The helicopters were filled with residents rescued from areas west of the city. The National Guard was able to continue its efforts by air on Sept. 16, 2013, after being grounded the day before because of weather.
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  • GLEN HAVEN, CO - SEPTEMBER 17:  Glen Haven Fire Captain Tom Housewright high fives a fellow firefighter as the two cross on main street of Glen Haven, CO on September 17, 2013.  (Driving the ATV is firefighter Clifton DeWitt.) The small mountain town of Glen Haven north east of Estes Park has been wiped out by the recent and massive flooding.   (Photo By Helen H. Richardson/ The Denver Post)
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  • Sgt. 1st Class Keith Bart, based in Fort Carson, hoists two women aboard a UH-60 Black Hawk during a rescue near Jamestown on Sept. 17, 2013. Bart noticed the women as they waved red scarves from the deck of a home. State officials estimated about 600 people were still stranded in isolated areas.
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  • BOULDER, CO - SEPTEMBER 12: A Rescue worker goes door to door checking on residents in north Boulder, September 12, 2013. Massive flash flooding is ongoing along the Front Range of Colorado. (Photo By RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
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  • Standing amid an enormous debris field near the mouth of Big Thompson Canyon, a man holds his head while watching the river. A stretch of 20 miles of U.S. 34 between Loveland and Estes Park was severely damaged by flooding.
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  • Three vehicles lie in a creek after raging floodwater undercut Dillon Road near U.S. 287 in Broomfield, Colo. on Sept. 12, 2013. The three motorists were rescued from the vehicles after emergency workers secured the vehicles with ropes and the motorists scrambled up the banks of the creek.
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  • AURORA, CO - September 12 : People check Overland High School baseball field in Utah Park in Aurora, Colorado on September 12, 2013. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
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  • NEAR LYONS , CO - SEPTEMBER 12: Hwy 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, CO. along Highway 7 on September 12, 2013..  Heavy and continuous rains have created devastating and major flooding in many mountain communities. Some areas have had over 10 inches of rain in the last 24-48 hours.  (Photo By Helen H. Richardson/ The Denver Post)
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  • LYONS, CO. - SEPTEMBER 14:  Sophie Bell hugs her father Al Latorre, at a road block on Highway 66 near Lyons, CO September 14, 2013. Bell was delivering food and fuel so Latorre could stay at his home in town. (Photo By Craig F. Walker / The Denver Post)
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  • 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. More heavy rain was expected that night, as the state braced for the worst flooding in its history.
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  • Sonia Chacon clears debris from around her family's home in north Boulder on Sept. 12, 2013. Nearly every road heading into the foothills of Boulder, Larimer and northern Jefferson counties was blocked by floodwaters or debris. Both of Chacon's family's cars were stuck in a foot of mud, and the first floor of their home was flooded.
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  • LYONS, CO. - SEPTEMBER 20: (l-r) Serena Koester and her sister Sam look over the yard outside their home in Lyons, CO September 20, 2013. Their father Scott Koester  expects that the home will be condemned after the recent flooding. He said, "we've been here 10 years now and it's all gone. I don't know how you'd save this house."  Friday was the second day residents were allowed to return to their homes.  (Photo By Craig F. Walker / The Denver Post)
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  • LOVELAND, CO - SEPTEMBER 14: The Big Thompson River overflowing it's banks and causing widespread damage to Colorado U.S. 34 in the Big Thompson Canyon after recent flooding in Larimer County Colorado Saturday morning, September 14, 2013. (Photo By Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
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