Colorado inundated with floodwaters – in pictures

Boulder Creek roils at high speed after days of record rain and flooding, at the base of Boulder Canyon on Friday Photograph: Brennan Linsley/AP

Residents look at a road washed out by a torrent of water following overnight flash flooding near Left Hand Canyon, south of Lyons, on Thursday. The widespread high waters kept search and rescue teams from reaching stranded residents in Lyons and nearby mountain communities as heavy rains hammered northern Colorado Photograph: Brennan Linsley/AP

Floodwater shoots out of a sewer on Canon Avenue on Thursday in Manitou Springs Photograph: Michael Ciaglo/AP

Siblings Patrick Tinsley and Mary Kerns walk into town from their mountain community Magnolia, where road access is shut off by debris from days of record rain and flooding at the base of Boulder Canyon on Friday Photograph: Brennan Linsley/AP

Emergency personnel work to rescue a man trapped inside his vehicle in Rock Creek in Lafayette Photograph: CBS4 Denver/Reuters

Nicky Toor, 15, is pulled by his dog Chaco down 9th Street in Boulder on Thursday Photograph: Dana Romanoff/Getty Images

A man watches the rush of water running down 7th Street as heavy rains cause severe flooding in Boulder Photograph: Mark Leffingwell/Reuters

A city worker surveys the still-rising high water levels on Boulder Creek in downtown Boulder on Thursday night Photograph: Brennan Linsley/AP

Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said the town of Lyons was completely cut off because of flooded roads Photograph: Jason Stillman/AP

Dave Jackson closes a mailbox with his foot after delivering to a home surrounded on three sides by a flooded Cheyenne Creek in Colorado Springs on Friday Photograph: Michael Ciaglo/AP

Jose Cortave of Guatemala takes a look at a damaged bridge on Weld County in Longmont on Friday Photograph: Marc Piscotty/Getty Images

A raging waterfall destroys a bridge along Highway 34 toward Estes Park, Colorado, as flooding continues to devastate the Front Range and thousands are forced to evacuate on Friday Photograph: Dennis Pierce/AP

Submerged vehicles in floodwaters along the South Platte river near Greenley on Saturday Photograph: John Wark/Reuters

Manuel Sanchez surveys his flooded home and property in La Salle. The Sanchez family has lived there for 11 years and said they had never seen anything close to this level of flooding in the area Photograph: Marc Piscotty/Getty Images

People stand at the edge of a highway washed out by flooding along the South Platte river in Weld County on Saturday Photograph: John Wark/AP

Kennedy Walters carries pieces of wood out of her flood-damaged basement while her cousin Dakota Walters takes a short break in Boulder on Saturday Photograph: Mark Leffingwell/Reuters

The Colorado governor, John Hickenlooper, speaks to reporters at Boulder municipal airport on Saturday after touring flood-damaged areas by army helicopter Photograph: Brennan Linsley/AP

Soldiers, civilian rescue personnel and members of the Jamestown community assist with an evacuation Photograph: Dixie Manzanares/Colorado National Guard/EPA

A destroyed house with furniture still intact in Jamestown Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters

Damage from the floodwaters of the St Vrain river Photograph: Rex/Zuma

Erez Shani packs soil at the top of a berm that is redirecting water as heavy rains cause flooding to rise in Boulder on Sunday Photograph: Mark Leffingwell/Reuters