Sustained and at times torrential rainstorms that hit the Pikes Peak region last month left August going out like a spouting whale.

“We don’t really get that much rain usually, and it was a little panicky,” said Niki Mikhalchenko, bookkeeper at the family-owned Calvin Turner Roofing.

The phones at both the Colorado Springs and Pueblo offices have been constantly ringing in the past few weeks, she said.

“We’ve had quite a bit of calls for everything leaking. People have had water coming in from roofs, ceilings, skylights, windows, basements.”

Both residential and commercial buildings with older roofs were particularly susceptible to the late-month surge of monsoon moisture.

Large buckets to catch dripping water appeared in some businesses through Labor Day weekend, including JC Penney

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