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Emergency workers in Colorado are working overtime in the largest response to a disaster since Hurricane Katrina, in order to evacuate people from areas in Larimer County hit hard by massive flooding.

The floods, triggered by heavy rain that is expected to continue falling this week, have swallowed whole neighborhoods, destroyed more than 17,000 homes and left 1,200 individuals unaccounted for in the Denver area.

Five people have been killed, according to NBC.

“There are air operations planned for today but it is still raining so we will have to assess that in the morning to see if they can go ahead,” Micki Trost, spokeswoman for the Colorado Office for Emergency Management, told NBC News early Monday.“ Much of the state is still very much in the response and recovery stage and at the moment we are hoping for the rain to stop so we can start looking at what the total damage is.”

Fifteen counties have been declared disaster zones after nearly a year’s worth of rain fell on Boulder in just eight days.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Colorado and those missing at this time.

SOURCE: NBC