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Jesse Olivas holds a snapshot outside his home on May 14, as he remembers floodwaters above his knees in the Evergreen Mobile Home Park when the Big Thompson River flooded in September 2013.
It was nearly eight years ago, but Martha Gutierrez still remembers everything that happened on that rainy September night.
“I remember like it was yesterday,” Gutierrez said. “If you talk to a lot of people that went through it, I mean . that s where my home is at. A lot of people broke.”
The small town of Milliken was one of several in Weld County that was hit by days of torrential rains in 2013, leading the South Platte and Big Thompson rivers to overflow. The Evergreen Mobile Home Park where she lived was one of the only places in town destroyed by the flooding.