What a username post combo. 
Stay warm, safe and dry!
9news is reporting the following:
Numbers as of sunday afternoon: 17,494 homes damaged, 1,502 homes destroyed, 11,700 people evacuated, 1,253 people unaccounted for, and 26 shelters open, according to COEmergency. These numbers are expected to change.
Enipla, here. Thanks for.the thought. My wife and I are on vacation in Austria. Our home and friends are fine. Our thoughts are with all of you back home in Colorado.
The numbers are absolutely astonishing. Colorado is our second home, our thoughts are with everyone that’s suffering through this.
I read an estimate yesterday that the size of the flooded areas in Colorado total to about the size of Connecticut. 
That’s just because Connecticut is tiny. 
We live in Boulder (just SE of Foothills and Arapahoe, for those who know the area).
Our neighborhood is a mixed bag. A number of intersections surrounding it have been intermittently flooded and impassable (mostly Wed-Fri last week, but some over the weekend, too). Many homes have had severe basement flooding, mostly from rising water table, rather than surface water pouring in (though there’s some of that as well).
High water in our basement was about 8 inches on Thursday. We had it mostly pumped out by Friday, and much of the floor was dry by yesterday morning.
Then it rained again all day yesterday, and the water came back in, but stabilized at about 1/2". It’s receding slowly, and the ServPro people we have contracted for the dry out are checking in daily with everyone in our neighborhood until the seepage stops, at which point they’ll start working.
A bunch of my colleagues from work came to the house yesterday and helped us haul everything that remained from our basement and essentially take it back to its unfinished state (thus saving us thousands of dollars of demolition work by ServPro). The only property we lost was some old furniture we didn’t care about particularly. We are waiting to have the hot water heater and furnace checked to see if they can be repaired or need replacement.
Considering that many of our neighbors had feet of water, rather than inches, we got off comparatively lightly.
We have no flood insurance, because we were outside the 100-year flood zone, and thought we didn’t need it. Thanks to all of you who pay taxes in the US in advance for the assistance we may receive from FEMA (convenient on-line application already filed). And, yes, after this is all done, we will be buying flood insurance (assuming we can get it).
Glad y’all are safe, RickG, and that the damage, while bad, wasn’t as bad as it could have been.
A friend of mine was in his garden-level apartment when the door burst open and chest-high water came rushing in. Thankfully, he, his children, and his wife all got out safely, but we’re not sure if anything can be salvaged. He is one of my drum instructors, and among his lost possessions are dozens of drums from Africa. Obviously, it’s all just things when compared to the possibility of losing one’s life.
West side of Denver in Wheat Ridge. No flooding, but lots and lots of rain. Our street drain was backed up a couple of days ago, but I think it was just volume. It’s flowing well now. Sunny all this morning. Hopefully it’s giving people a chance to dry out.
Yeah, I’ve heard a few stories like that from people who live closer to one of the creeks. One friend, who is out of town taking his daughter to her freshman year of college, has heard reports that his complex’s basement storage had 8 feet of water come in. He has thus lost his 40 year old collection of 800 vinyl LPs. Regrettable, but, as you say, it’s only stuff.
Longmont. But I was in the “safe” part of town but even so we had to shelter in place Thursday. It help when you’re married to someone with a degree in emergency management so we had our go-bags ready and knew where to take the dogs.
No one could drive anywhere Thursday afternoon and for all intents and purposes no one could get out of town until Saturday except I zigzagged out of town and made it to DIA Friday night.
Can’t take the direct way to the freeway.
Roads in western Weld County were pretty much gone for 72 hours and some still haven’t reopened.
Schools closed down (so no work at my day job) until Thursday (one full week)
Even with the improvement, don’t anticipate getting from one spot to another in town and things are so precarious that a light rain Sunday shut all the roads down again.
It’s unbelievable seeing water 6-7 feet high on road I take regularly.
I think the only Dopers harder hit than me and The Surb would be a someone in Lyons or the foothills of Boulder.
Stat of the day. In Lyons, 500 houses were safe, 150 damages or destroyed (and most of those destroyed) which means a quarter of the houses physically affected by the floods.
Phlosphr lives up there, or used to. He doesn’t post much anymore. (I think he has a young kid.)
I know I’m mostly a lurker and only lost my basement, but…what am I, chopped liver? 
A co-worker lives in Lyons and was finally able to get out on Sunday to his in-laws in Evergreen. They’d been cut off, but their house is dry.
Wife and son and self were just in Lyons last weekend to go to the pinball arcade, the soda fountain, and some galleries. We stopped at Spirit Hound Distillers and the jerky place on the way to Longmont for dinner. Really hope all those businesses are ok (especially Spirit Hound–got a preview taste of Cask 2 of their whiskey, which will not be ready until 2015, and which seems promising).
I wonder how Oskar Blues fared in Lyons.
We fared fine in Golden. A couple of inches of water in the crawlspace, but this has happened before and will turn out OK.
My workplace in Boulder was closed on Thursday and Friday and had minor damage from roof leaks. No water in from the ground floor, luckily. No permanent damage, but it will take a couple of days to get everything back online.
Many of my friends and coworkers live in the mountains above Arvada, Boulder, and Lyons. I know that some of them are still stuck up there (no news beyond this), and I know several familes that are stuck down here and will not be able to get home for maybe weeks. Their homes are safe, as far as they know, but the only road to their house is completely washed away. I believe it will take years to repair all the damage from this flood.
On the bright side, I attended a wedding Saturday night at the Agora Event Center in Boulder, believe it or not! This place is creek side in Boulder, right at the corner of Arapahoe and Broadway. There were a couple of leaks in the roof and we were told that if the sirens went off we would need to be North of Spruce or South of Grandview ASAP. They never went off, at least as long as I was there. Boulder Creek was quite impressive, there were some gigantic cottonwood trees jammed under the Broadway Bridge. Pretty amazing.
The wedding was a good reminder that life goes on…
Looks like you’ll have to go to the one on the 119 for a while.
Just did a search for your posts to see if you were trapped on a mountain. Good to hear you’re not.
Pet a kangaroo for me. 
Southeast Littleton. Lotsa rain, no flooding issues in my 'hood as far as I can tell. But the dogs have completely annihilated the back yard and muddied up the living room something awful. It’s a freaking disaster I tell ya. But seriously–I can’t imagine most of those affected have flood insurance–who’d think to buy it unless they lived near a creek. But this mess looks to be taking out huge areas you’d not normally consider flood targets.
Wild-assed summer here. Fire in, flood out.
Glad to hear you and your family (and all the other Colorado Dopers) are okay.
Too bad nature couldn’t have reversed that order, eh?
A friend has a ranch east of Boulder that has frontage to the creek and I went out there to see how he fares. Their house and barn is 150 yards from the normal banks of the creek, but the barn was a foot deep in mud and the house had damage as well.
The area close to the creek was littered with tree trunks and I couldn’t imagine where they had all come from, but then I found this video which shed some light on that.
I’m sure this was happening at dozens of places up and down the creek.