The number of people missing or unaccounted for from Colorado's floods has drastically fallen as rescuers reach stranded victims. Electricity and phone services have been restored to ravaged areas, allowing residents to contact family or friends, authorities said. Some of the stranded are refusing to leave their homes, prompting crews to show them photos of the flood's surrounding destruction to warn them they could be cut off from essential services for several weeks. Widespread airlifts have given way to door-to-door searches, said Jennifer Hillmann, a spokeswoman for the Larimer County Sheriff's Office north of Boulder. The number of people unaccounted for dropped from a high of 1,200 to about 200. The projected resident property losses are about $900 million and most of those homes are uninsured, catastrophe modeling firm Equecat said. State officials have said six people died as a result of the floods, plus two women missing and presumed dead.
