Over the last several years the Pikes Peak region has endured drought and suffered severe rain runoff from parched ground and fire burn scars.
Here, a man stands in the middle of the destruction caused by a flash flood that poured down Canon Avenue in Manitou Springs on an otherwise normal summer Fridayafternoon on August 9, 2013.
Subsequent storms a month later led to 2013 receiving the dubiousdistinction of having the heaviest recorded rainfall in Colorado statehistory, contributing to massive flooding that killed eight peopleand caused over $2 billion in damage state-wide.
Michael Ciaglo Photograph