A collection of photographs, taken by photojournalists from local newspapers, of the devastating flooding that took place in Colorado in September, 2013, focusing on Boulder and Larimer Counties.

Ranked among the top ten states for both disasters and dry climate, Colorado has a long history of extreme weather. On May 19, 1864, residents of the fledgling gold rush town of Denver awoke to a wall of water slamming into the city with enough force to flatten buildings and rip clothing from its victims. The infamous Big Thompson Canyon flood of 1976 killed 144 residents, tourists and campers. Per the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Coloradoans...

In 1921 a wall of water rushed down the Arkansas River and in a matter of hours Pueblo, Colorado was under 21 feet of water. Thousands of people grabbed anything that would float conducting one of the bravest rescue missions in human history.

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