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(CNN) -- Roads ripped to rubble by floodwaters up to 10 feet deep, rushing at speeds of up to 30 mph. Shattered homes near others still standing upright. One person dead, two others missing. 
  
 That's the harsh reality police, firefighters and residents were dealing with Saturday in Manitou Springs, a mountain community of about 5,000 people just west of Colorado Springs, after sudden, raging waters tore through the area. 
  
 Under mostly sunny skies, crews spent the day looking for the missing and combing through wreckage wrought by floods triggered by intense rain. 
  
 Locals such as Justin Blount, meanwhile, tried to make sense of what happened. 
  
 He was in a Manitou Springs cafe, working on its owner's computer, on Friday when water suddenly, perilously started flowing in front of the building. He and others -- one of them wheelchair-bound -- heard the water rushing below them as they finally got in an elevator and crept up to safety. 
  
 "It was like a raging river, a black river coming down," Blount told CNN affiliate KUSA, dry after his 2½ hour ordeal the day earlier. "... It was wild. I'm still in a little bit of shock." 
  
 His central Colorado town, at the foot of Pikes Peak, was one of several nationwide that have been impacted by wet weather and floodwaters in recent days. 
  
 Showers and thunderstorms were expected from the Pacific Northwest to the Deep South. 
  
 In addition to a pocket of Colorado, flash-flood warnings were in effect Saturday for parts of Washington and Oregon, as well as much of New Mexico. There were flood warnings -- which are issued when water levels in rivers and other waterways rise to precarious levels -- in Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and South Carolina. 
  
 Some communities bracing for wet weather were coping with the aftermath of earlier devastating floods. A flash flood watch was in effect through 9 p.m. (11 p.m. ET) in Manitou Springs, for instance, given the threat that could be caused by more heavy rains. 
  
 The dangers there are exacerbated by last year's mammoth Waldo Canyon wildfire, which -- as Lt. Steve Schopper of the Manitou Springs Fire Department explained -- made the soil saturated, unstable, "kind of waxy" and little help in curbing rushing waters. 
  
 "It's like liquid cement," Schopper told KUSA, noting that those caught up in the rocks, trees and other debris have little chance to escape. "... You're not swimming out of this. It will rip your clothes off." 
  
 Video of the mudslide showed cars sliding swiftly down an incline while others remained stranded in rushing, gray-colored water. 
  
 One man was found dead beneath "significant amounts of debris" left on Colorado Highway 24, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office said. 
  
 The search, meanwhile, continued for two others. 
  
 In Oklahoma, floodwaters swept away and killed a man who was trying to save his daughter from a stranded vehicle early Friday. Vincent Brown was attempting to rescue his daughter who had become stranded in high water in her vehicle, Oklahoma City Police spokeswoman Sgt. Jennifer Wardlow said. 
  
 Wardlow said Brown's daughter was wading toward her father. She turned to retrieve some items in her vehicle, and when she turned back around, he had been swept away by fast-moving floodwater that had rapidly appeared in Oklahoma City overnight. 
  
 In South Carolina, Logan Dale Evans was found dead in floodwater on his family property Wednesday night near the town of Central, Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley said. 
  
 Evans, 23, was found outside his vehicle, which ended up about a mile downstream, said Kelley, who added that Evans is believed to have drowned. 
  
 At least two people were reported killed in Missouri this week, including a driver who was caught in rapidly rising water in McDonald County on Thursday, said Gregg Sweeten, the county's emergency management director. The woman, thought to be in her 60s, had been trying to drive over a bridge when the water overwhelmed her vehicle, Sweeten said. 
  
 On Monday, Elijah Lee, 4, died after 6 inches of rain fell on Pulaski County, about 140 miles southwest of St. Louis. The boy was found in a vehicle swept up in floodwater that caught the community along Mitchell Creek off guard, said Sgt. Dan Crain, a Missouri Highway Patrol spokesman. 
  
 CNN's Melissa Lefevre and Emily Smith contributed to this report. ||||| MANITOU SPRINGS — The day after a flash flood tore through Manitou Springs, sweeping a house off its foundation and leaving one person dead and two others missing, hardly a resident could be seen without a shovel. 
  
 Groups of volunteers, some from as far away as Denver, helped pick up the pieces of the mud-splattered town. The Salvation Army handed out sandwiches, cafes gave away coffee, and neighbors helped each other sort through the mess. 
  
 Many were in good spirits. But the people of Manitou know they're living in the shadow of the Waldo Canyon burn scar, and with a flash flood watch in effect even as they worked on Saturday, the threat is far from over. 
  
 Looking across the foundation where one house once stood but was washed away with flood waters, residents and crews clean up the damage and debris along Canon Avenue on Saturday, August 10, 2013. Flash flood roared through the streets and hillsides on Friday evening. (Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post) 
  
 "It's just going to be life in Manitou every time we get a big rain," said a mud-covered Steve Moll on Saturday morning, as he helped clean up outside his friend's candy shop on Cañon Avenue. "As long as the burn scar exists, we are gonna have to live with this for the next 10 years." 
  
 The flood that hit the small tourist town just west of Colorado Springs was the third of the summer. It roared through early Friday evening, after more than an inch of rain fell in half an hour near Williams Canyon. 
  
 The body of John Collins, 53, of Teller County, was found buried under deep debris alongside U.S. 24 Friday night, according to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office. 
  
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 His vehicle was found on the highway, and authorities didn't know whether he exited it during the flood or was swept out of it by the muddy waters. 
  
 As of Saturday evening, two other people were missing: Juston Travis, a white, 24-year-old man; and a blond woman, who was last seen clinging to a tree in the waters while wearing a black shirt with tan pants. A man named "Steve," who neighbors had reported missing earlier, was found safe during the day. 
  
 County Commissioner Sallie Clark said the mud and debris that the flood brought from high ground overwhelmed the culverts near Cañon Avenue and came barreling down into the town. The flood, picking up boulders, cars, logs and even a house as it came, gained momentum as it moved down the hill. 
  
 Including the house that was swept away, six buildings were declared unsafe to enter, 11 were safe only for limited entry and 23 suffered cosmetic damage. Police Chief Joe Ribeiro said Saturday night that 40 cars were damaged and later towed. 
  
 "When the surge came, it was like a wall. And you can see it — it's got debris and logs," said Ron Heine, shovel in hand. 
  
 "When you see it, it's pretty frightening because it's so powerful and there's nothing you can do. ... Mother Nature's going to do her thing no matter what we do." 
  
 Piles of debris and sludge littered Cañon Avenue. Mud-soaked bathtubs, Mardi Gras beads, vacuums and water pumps mingled with sticks and boulders. 
  
 Crews of muck-covered people cleaned, shoveling and dumping buckets of mud into the street to be scooped up and carried away by dump trucks. 
  
 Tammy Pfaffle didn't know 90 percent of the people working to clear her belongings out of her gutted house, she said. 
  
 Pfaffle, who lives with her 17-year-old daughter Kiandra and three cats, was home Friday night when the mudslide pummeled her small yellow home on Cañon Avenue. The culvert runs just behind her house, and she heard the flood before she saw it. 
  
 "It sounded like a freight train," Pfaffle said. "It was coming and coming and rushing and rushing." 
  
 As water rushed into the back of the house, Pfaffle held the front door shut so her cats wouldn't wash away in the flood. 
  
 But her neighbors weren't so lucky. As Pfaffle held the door closed and water rushed through her house, destroying everything she owned, a man and his dog were being washed away through her front yard. 
  
 And out back, another neighbor's whole house was swept off its foundations. That woman rode the wave, finally coming to a stop up the hill across the street. Someone threw the man and his dog a rope, and they survived. The woman suffered only a broken leg. 
  
 Residents and crews clean up the damage and debris along Canon Avenue on Saturday after a flash flood roared through the streets and hillsides on Friday evening, August 9, 2013. (Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post) 
  
 Pfaffle said the frustration came in not being able to help or be helped during the disaster. 
  
 "It was surreal to stand there yelling, 'Help' ... It makes you feel very vulnerable," Pfaffle said, smearing mud on her face as she wiped tears away with her dirty hands. "And people standing in the street and crying for me and all they can do is say, 'I'm sorry, we can't help.' " 
  
 M.J. Thomson's family owns Pfaffle's house and eight other houses in the neighborhood, including the home that washed away. 
  
 Thomson's family was out cleaning up the devastation Saturday. Even his blind father-in-law, Bruce McAlexander, was shoveling. 
  
 An army of about 10 people helped clean his family's properties, eventually gathering around the clogged culvert and moving the boulders so if this happens again, mud will have somewhere to flow. 
  
 Fire Recovery Manager R.C. Smith said retention pools have been built up near Williams and Waldo canyons to help lessen the impact of the floods. 
  
 But they can't stop the rain, especially during Colorado's monsoon season. Residents such as Lisa LaRue, who lives on Manitou Avenue off Cañon Avenue, still have plenty of work to clean up after this flood. 
  
 As LaRue took a break from her labors Saturday afternoon, she said she knew the town would soon see another flood. 
  
 "They told us it's not a matter of if, but when," she said. 
  
 Asked at a Saturday night news conference what could be done so prevent more floods, Chief Rubeiro said, "The only thing that will prevent this from happening again is prayer." 
  
 Ally Marotti: 303-954-1223, amarotti@denverpost.com or twitter.com/AllyMarotti |||||
Output:
A man's body has been found buried under mud and several feet of debris following a flash flood in Manitou Springs, Colo., last night. An inch and a half of rain fell in the area between 5:30pm and 6pm, causing boulders and mud to flow through the same area in Waldo Canyon ravaged by wildfires last year. The body has not yet been publicly identified and a cause of death has not been announced, but police believe the man died in the floods, the Denver Post reports. Three others are still missing, say authorities: Juston Travis, 24, a man known only as Steve, and a woman " seen near the creek hanging in a tree one minute and not seen the next," reports CNN. Flash flooding in Oklahoma City also claimed the life of a man yesterday: Vincent Brown, 60, was swept into a dram and drowned while trying to rescue his stranded daughter, reports the Oklahoman. His daughter, who was not injured, says she he waded through the water to help her escape from her car. She turned around to get some things from the car, and when she turned back, Brown was gone. His body was found in a drainage canal.