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Estes Park Flood 2013

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Mary K. Somin watches as her house on East Riverside Drive is emptied on Wednesday. Like many in Estes Park, Simon has to take out wet and ruined items before trying to dry out the building, itself.
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Mary K. Somin watches as her house on East Riverside Drive is emptied on Wednesday. Like many in Estes Park, Simon has to take out wet and ruined items before trying to dry out the building, itself.

  • Poppy's co-owner Rob Pieper takes a break while employees help remove damaged items from the restaurant. Pieper sees several weeks of repair ahead before reopening.
  • Mary K. Somin watches as her house on East Riverside Drive is emptied on Wednesday. Like many in Estes Park, Simon has to take out wet and ruined items before trying to dry out the building, itself.
  • St Malo suffers more as the pond in front of the Chapel on the Rocks is clogged with trees and refuse from last weeks flooding. The Catholic retreat has not completely rebuilt from their last disaster, the fire two years ago that destroyed parts of the housing and conference facilities.
  • A home along Fish Creek sits in ruin on Thursday. More than 19,000 homes were lost throughout the front range in the historic flooding last week.
  • Workers unload a National Guard Chanook helicopter at the Stanley Fairgrounds on Friday. The huge helicopters have been used to evacuate people, as well as move supplies around the Front Range during the flood and early recovery efforts.
  • An elderly man seems dejected at the Red Cross shelter on Wednesday.
  • The bridge on the Fish Creek recreation trail sits on a new island in the creek on Thursday. All land and concrete on either end was washed away in the flooding.
  • A mud slide leaves a long scar on the west side of Twin Sisters. The rains of last week created slides and road damage all over the Estes Park area and the Front Range.
  • The 17th green sits cut off from the fairway at the Estes Park Public 18-Hole Golf Course on Thursday. Last week's flood tore away bridges and land on the course close to the Fish Creek.
  • An Estes Park resident trudges through the toxic flood waters running through the intersection of Elkhorn an Moraine avenues on Friday, September 13. The floods that inundated the Colorado Front Range claimed at least eight lives and damaged 19,000 homes and buildings.
  • Flood waters from the Fall River rush down Elkhorn Avenue on Friday, Seotember 13. The flood event was more powerful than the floods of 1976 and 1982.
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  • Governor John Hickenlooper, adorned in his Estes Park cap, puts the finishing touch, reflective beads, on US Hwy 34 in Big Thompson Canyon on Thursday. The Governor, mayors of Estes Park, Loveland, Evans and elsewhere, as well as CDOT officials and residents of the canyon, gathered for the reopening of the road, more than a week ahead of schedule.
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