. >> reporter: david doherty is starting his morning the way he always does.ith a coffee run for linda, his wife, of 17 years. >> migraine all gone? >> reporter: the caffeine seems to ease linda out of her routine migraines, and this week especially there's plenty to worry about. >> well, i hope we get to stay here. >> i think we'll be able to stay here for a while. >> reporter: my bag, this one and this one are all from home. >> reporter: for now this is their new home. a few square feet i in the coors event center in boulder. it's one of 14 shoulders housing flood victims across the state. for linda and david, their third shelter in their one bleary-eyed week. iin a cruel twist of nature in the latest stop of an odyssey over the last three years. >> i cried quite a few times. i've been to the mental health worker quite a few times. >> reporter: what do you tell the mental health worker. >> the fire, her the three years, we spent with the fire used me up. >> used you up? >> i lost the will. not the will to live but the will to fight. >> reporter: it's been a

we spent the day there talking to some of those folks, including a house and wife, david doherty, andda. their story, unfortunately, is not all that uncommon in this area. they had to leave their home three years ago during those terribly angry wildfires that charred up much of the communities around boulder. they were only back in their home, believe this or not, several weeks ago before the weather took a turn on them. we asked them how they could possibly feel about that. >> sad. >> like a ping-pong ball. sad, yes. it's really tough. it has been tough for the original fire. it's been really tough during the three years, but going home gave us a whole bunch of home. we were home for two weeks, we were unloading boxes, getting familiar again with living in the mountains. we were pretty happy. and then the rain started. >> well, everyone, as you would expect, they're quite tired and very emotional. but they're glad to see fema is here, the red cross is here there are people who can help do case work with them. >> you can't really say enough about what those shelters mean for the resid