From the Colorado flooding....
Water now covers an area
larger than the State of Connecticut!
Stretches of asphalt totally washed away
Highway 7 is completely blown out from the South St. Vrain river about 12 miles west of Lyons, Colo. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
Geysers are shooting out of overloaded sewers
Flood water shoots out of an sewer next to a house in Manitou Springs, Colo. (Michael Ciaglo/The Gazette/AP)
The flooding is this bad in some houses
Casey Roy, 9, looks into her family's basement in Boulder, Colo. (RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
Other houses have been entirely washed away
Photo provided by Matthew Gurnsey to The Denver Post.
1 reason it can be so dangerous to drive in flooded areas
Three people were rescued from this scene, where three vehicles crashed into a creek after the road washed out from under them in Broomfield, Colo. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
And whatever this was before, it's a river now
What looks like a surfboard hangs on a fence bordering massive flooding in Lyons, Colo. (Early Ferguson/Special to the Denver Post)
There used to be a baseball field beyond that fence
Josh Gonzalez, left, and David Louboutin stand in front of the Overland High School baseball field in Aurora, Colo. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)