Many residential areas are still just working on finding out how bad the damage is.
Nearly two thousand homes and more than two hundred business were destroyed, while over sixteen thousand homes and almost eight hundred business were damaged.
All told damages in Colorado are estimated at more than two billion dollars.
For now, the government is focusing on repairing and rebuilding Colorado's mountain highways.
Hundreds of miles of roadway and some sixty bridges were damaged or destroyed, making
travel still very difficult.
Several towns remain cut off, with no road access anymore, while others only have access through mountain passes that will close in the winter.
Farmers further east are all facing transportation problems, as damaged or destroyed bridges were how they got their harvest off the farms.
Towards aiding both those issues state highway crews are already at work repairing and rebuilding roadways, as quickly as possible.
The Colorado National Guard has hundreds of troops helping the effort.
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