Flooding Reaches Eastern Plains Agriculture Communities
Although the rain has stopped and the water is no longer rising on the Front Range, flooding is still a big concern for communities on the Eastern Plains.
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Although the rain has stopped and the water is no longer rising on the Front Range, flooding is still a big concern for communities on the Eastern Plains.
The floods and the aftermath have created another problem for many communities -- just how safe is the water supply?
Colorado and the nation are starting to get the first glimpse into many of the communities hit hard by the flooding over the last few days.
The rescue effort from the flooding in Colorado has included the largest human airlift since Hurricane Katrina as more than 1,700 people have been rescued.
Weary Colorado evacuees have begun returning home after days of rain and flooding, but Monday's clearing skies and receding waters revealed only more heartbreak.
Some homeowners are taking advantage of any break in the weather to get the cleanup process underway. CBS4's Karen Morfitt spoke with a Longmont man still sorting through the damage.
Both sides in the Colorado theater shootings soon will get their first look at a long-awaited opinion from a state psychiatrist on whether James Holmes was insane when he killed 12 people and injured 70.
Officials with the Colorado D. said they hope to have the ramp from eastbound Interstate 70 to Quebec repaired soon.
Larimer County officials are reassuring evacuees that they will get the help they need as they endure a long wait before they can return home.
Larimer County officials are reporting 398 people missing amid massive flooding, down 245 from previous estimates.
People in an Evans mobile home park are cleaning up after flood waters swamped them on Friday.
The Colorado National Guard says six Guard members and nine first responders are stranded in Lyons after they were trapped overnight by flooding.
Flood survivors in Colorado are remembering close friends Wesley Quinlan and his girlfriend Wiyanna Nelson who were killed in the disaster.
As Colorado mountain towns cut off for days by massive flooding slowly reopened, shopkeepers in Estes Park worked to both clean up and remove salvageable goods from ravaged businesses for fear the swollen Big Thompson River would rise again.
Except for the Big Thompson fly fishermen and tubers lolling down Boulder Creek, most residents of the Front Range usually pay little mind to the small rivers that trickle by on their way from the mountains to the plains.
