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Estes Park Flood 2013

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A local has a hard time looking at the destruction on Elkhorn Avenue on Friday. Most of the businesses in the downtown section of Elkhorn Avenue suffered some damage from the historic flood.
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A local has a hard time looking at the destruction on Elkhorn Avenue on Friday. Most of the businesses in the downtown section of Elkhorn Avenue suffered some damage from the historic flood.

  • A trout seems disoriented in a bottle at the YMCA of the Rockies on Saturday. Fish were stranded on streets in the area after the flood water receeded.
  • Part of Spur 66 lays collapsed on Saturday. The run off from the record rain undercut the road in several places.
  • A sink hole compomises the road into the YMCA of the Rockies after the historic rain and flash flooding this week. The rains undercut several sections of Spur 66 and breached the dam that held back Dorsey Lake.
  • Brown water rushes past a gap in a bridge on Monday created by the weekend flooding along Fall River Road. A lot of inferstructure was damaged in the flooding.
  • A dumpster and an SUV rest in a gully above Glen Haven formed by last week's flood. Roads, property and lives were lost in the single largest flood event in the state's history.
  • Frank Crone of Glen Haven surveys damage to his property on Monday. Crone counts himself among the lucky as he had electricty and running water when he returned to his home after the flood.
  • Piles of refuse clog the south side of Lake Estes on Monday. The pile includes matresses, bottles, coolers, pieces of homes and human waste.
  • A local has a hard time looking at the destruction on Elkhorn Avenue on Friday. Most of the businesses in the downtown section of Elkhorn Avenue suffered some damage from the historic flood.
  • A town bobcat sweeps mud off of Elkhorn Avenue on Sunday. The town has started cleaning where they can.
  • Waves of mud and grass show the path of floodwaters along the Fall River on Tuesday. As waters recede, the damage is revealed in the Estes Park area.
  • Locals test to see how close they can get to their shops on Friday. Rising water from the Fall River divided parts of town, making travel dangerous or even impossible on Friday.
  • Friends of Kind Coffee help dry carpets in the coffee shop. As the sunshine returns, resolute Estes Park residents are hard at work to bring business back.
  • Annie Stewart, left, of Denver e-mails her parents while Vanessa O'Neal of Olive Springs, Tenn., cheerfully waits her turn at the Mountain View Bible Fellowship on Friday. The evecuation center at the church provided a connection to the outside world for those stuck in Estes Park.
  • A reckless young man slides over the bridge at Trejent Park on Friday. Large amounts of debris colecting on the bridge could have led to the bridge's failure, but not this time.
  • Curious residents check out rain and mud at Elkhorn and Moraine avenues on Friday.
  • Visitors make the best of being trapped in Estes Patk on Friday. With Trail Ridge Road closed to all but essential travel, visitors are now temperary residents.
  • Water streams across Peak View Drive and down a new cascade created by the heavy rain, cutting through soft, saturated soil, and into a home in Prospect Estates on Friday.
  • An Estes Park Public Works official documents the breach in the lower Scott Pond on Friday morning. The dam failure added more water to the already overflowing Fish Creek.
  • Very little is visable of the cowboy statue in Tregent Park on Friday morning.
  • Saturated soil collapses, bring a retaining wall down atop a parked car below Morain and Crags avenues on Friday. Saturated soil has washed away all over Estes Park.
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