7 photos that show how destructive the Colorado flooding is

[madamesilverspurs]

http://www.dailycamera.com/digital-first-media/ci_24087007/flooding-colorado-photos-really-bad-destructive?nstrack=sid%3A1362025%7Cmet%3A0000300%7Ccat%3A0%7Corder%3A3&%2F%3Fsource=dailyme

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Is that a storm drain running in reverse?? Whew!

[pipoman]

7. Yep,

there is a tiny, 4" deep "creek" running through town. It went from 4" to over 10 feet in less than 5 minutes. This was the result of 1 inch of rain on a forest fire burn scar..

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. That's absolutely terrifying.

[TeeYiYi]

8. Caption to that photo...

Flood water shoots out of a sewer on Canon Avenue next to the Cliff House in Manitou Springs, Colo. Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013 as storms continue to dump rain over the Waldo Canyon burn scar (Michael Ciaglo/The Gazette/AP)

TYY

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Thanks! I've never seen anything like it.

[intheflow]

18. "Golgothan emerges during disaster of Biblical proportions."

In other times, I would crack myself up with that line. As a Colorado resident, however, it's just not funny today.

[AtheistCrusader]

23. Well, they won't need to muck out the sewer pipes for a few years anyway...

Never, ever get floodwaters on you. Never. Not if you can avoid it. Fuck knows what is in it. Industrial waste. Agricultural waste. Human waste. You name it.

[Hekate]

28. My aunt got typhoid fever after a flood in Denver... would've been the mid-'50s...

People were linking arms just to cross streets, and the sewer system was kaput. When she finally went to the hospital weeks later, the docs had never even seen a case of typhoid before. Hopefully they haven't again -- she was desperately sick.

[DRoseDARs]

25. Looks like: Cousin It's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Hair Day. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

34. I can see that. :) I don't think there's a hairbush in the world that could deal with that.

[seabeyond]

2. i was gonna move to colorado in a couple months. i wonder what all the fall out is gonna be with

this.

in a moment, so much changes. i have been looking at areas and homes for months. i feel like i know the area

i havent even been looking at weather. we arent being hit by much in the panhandle.

[likesmountains 52]

11. What part of Colorado?

[seabeyond]

12. co springs. nt

[pipoman]

16. We have friends in Co. Springs..

they have lived there 25 years and have never seen anything like this. If we were moving to Colorado Springs we would look at housing in Manitou Springs..we love that town..

[intheflow]

19. Manitou is really hurting.

They had a crazy wildfire early this summer, which led to mudslides and the sewage geyser pictured in the OP.

[pipoman]

24. Yeah, I was there that day...there are plenty of high ground places which weren't

directly effected and probably never could be..it is beautiful there..this is a temporary problem (may be up to 10 years if some other man made solution isn't found)..the lifestyle as opposed to Co. Springs outweighs the risk IMO

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My heart goes out to the folks in Colorado....

Omigod.

Horrifying.

K&R

[pipoman]

4. I checked into The Cliff House

3 hours before this photo was taken. If this photo panned to the left about 1/2 the frame you could see my car on the upper level of the garage..the valet had no idea when he parked my car there, what a huge favor he was doing me.

This was comparable only to the Grand Island Tornadoes in natural disasters I have witnessed. Just an unbelievable sight..

[seabeyond]

5. wow. nt

[Junkdrawer]

13. The smell must be HORRIBLE....

as will the inevitable cleanup.

As a kid I volunteered to cleanup Wilkes Barre after Agnes. Retch.

[pipoman]

14. It really wasn't..

it smelled wet like a river or lake and later like mud, maybe the first water pushed the sewage out first. Maybe an hour after this photo was taken, my wife and I were returning to the hotel walking directly in this frame...we went up the stairs where the chef is standing..the manhole cover was still off, the water was down several feet from the top..as quickly as it came, it receeded and left a foot of mud in it's wake..

[Junkdrawer]

17. in Wilkes Barre, it was the combination of dried refuse and disinterred graveyards....

hopefully, Colorado will be spared the later.

[pipoman]

21. Well that isn't pretty..

hydraulic power is incredible..

[malaise]

38. Damn

Luck was on your side

[likesmountains 52]

6. This on really hits me...Coal Creek Canyon

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152236355694899&set=a.10152236355599899.1073741846.18943944898&type=1&theater

[Warren DeMontague]

15. That first one is like a.... I don't know, some kind of horrible "shit monster".

That's bad.

[Uncle Joe]

20. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, madamesilverspurs.

[DreamGypsy]

22. It's Nature's Way...

...of telling us.

something's wrong, very, very, very wrong. And who's to blame?

[MichaelKelley]

26. sad

I am very sorry to see this, but I think that the word flood is more than enough to understand the destructiveness of this as we cannot escape from this once it arrives.

[gopiscrap]

27. Wow they have said that this is a flood that happens only

once in a thousand years.

[Hekate]

29. Stay safe and dry, all you Coloradans.

Thanks, Mme Silverspurs, for the news. Stay safe.

[Cha]

30. Unreal, madame.. :(

Colorado~

[ReRe]

31. Mother Nature is exceptionally pissed n/t

[SamKnause]

32. Flood

..................If you click on the link in the article there are 188 photos............................

The destruction looks widespread and devastating.

So very sad.

[B Calm]

33. I wonder what percentage of people didn't have flood insurance. . .

[MrMickeysMom]

35. I can't imagine ever getting it from this point forward...

Horrible mess...

[intheflow]

36. Most people in mountain towns don't have flood insurance.

The premiums have always been too high because the risk has always been so great.

[MindPilot]

40. I lived over ten years in East Denver / Aurora...never entered my mind to buy flood insurance.

The risk was infinitesimally small. Now, that area is underwater.

[malaise]

37. K & R

Freaking wow!

[jojog]

39. What is happening to all the Fracking sites? nt