He said the local Home Depot sold 700 sump pumps in four hours. "Life goes on, but it's so heartbreaking."īoulder resident Rudy Harburg said the most prevalent problem in the city of Boulder is flooded basements. He said Four Mile Canyon, one of several canyons where people live outside of Boulder, is "a total wipeout." "It's very sad," said Kahn, a Realtor who has lived in Boulder since 1967.
Water "poured" into some nearby houses, he said. Long-time Boulder resident Tom Kahn said there were some mudslides in his neighborhood near the base of a mountain that overlooks the city of Boulder, but his house did not suffer any major damage. Recovery "will take weeks, if not months," she said.
"We're also looking at roadways near water that weren't closed to make sure they are safe." "Our first priority is looking at roads to repair," Ford said. Thirty highway bridges are destroyed, 20 are seriously damaged, and transportation officials suspect 20 others are damaged. highways - 34, 36 and 72 - and various mountain roads are heavily damaged, she said. The actual number of roads damaged or destroyed is unknown, Ford said. A second Larimer County 60-year-old woman is also presumed dead after the river destroyed her home the same night. The woman was injured and unable to leave her home Friday night, sheriff's spokesman John Schulz said. An 80-year-old woman in Larimer County's Cedar Grove was missing and presumed dead after her home was washed away by the flooding Big Thompson River, the county sheriff's office said Sunday. Still the number of fatalities could rise. "We don't expect to find 1,254 fatalities," said Micki Trost, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.įive fatalities - four in Boulder County and one in El Paso County - have been confirmed since the bulk of the rain began Wednesday evening. Many of those unaccounted for were reported unreachable on the phone by family members. The number of people unaccounted for in flood-ravaged Colorado rose Sunday to 1,254 as flooding spread to 15 counties and rain continued to fall. Watch Video: More than 1,000 unaccounted for in Colorado floods
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