A week of torrential downpours in Colorado has resulted in massive flooding that has destroyed homes and highways, and has claimed the lives of seven people so far.

The flooding began during the evening of Sept. 11, and has continued to devastate Boulder and parts of Denver. Though many residents had been evacuated last week, as of the morning of Sept. 16, search-and-rescue efforts were working to find roughly 1,000 people that had been unaccounted for. According to Colorado Office of Emergency Management officials, about 1,500 homes were destroyed in the floods.

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