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Flooding Soaks Central U.S.

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• Aug. 24, 2007: An uprooted tree crushes a car in Chicago, one day after high winds and torrential thunderstorms pounded the region.
• Aug. 24, 2007: A flooded home in Ottawa, Ohio, after storms dumped up to 10 inches during a few hours on Tuesday, coming on top of several days of rain
• Aug. 24, 2007: Two people take a boat down flooded Main Street in Ottawa, Ohio.
• Aug. 24, 2007: A car crushed by a tree attracts a curious passer-by in Chicago, a day after high winds and torrential thunderstorms pounded the region.
• Aug. 24, 2007: Main Street in Ottawa, Ohio
• Aug. 24, 2007: Deanna Norby rests her chin on her son Dalton Kingsley as she listens in a shelter during a community meeting in Rushford, Minn., for victims of last weekend's flooding in southeastern Minnesota.
• Aug. 24, 2007: A flooded street is seen from a canoe in Ottawa, Ohio, after storms dumped up to 10 inches during a few hours on Tuesday.
• Aug. 24, 2007: A crane lifts a tree from the house it fell on clearing wires and street lamps in Chicago, one day after high winds and torrential thunderstorms pounded the region.
• Aug. 23, 2007: St. Charles, Ill. resident Mia Srachta runs out of her flooded car with her 4-year-old daughter, Tayhler, looking for shelter after her husband, Andy, accidentally drove deep into standing water
• Aug. 23: Floodwaters surround buildings in Ottawa, Ohio.
• Aug. 23: David Moris retrieves a ladder from the smoldering debris at the home of Paul Zarnstorff. The house burned to the ground following an electrical fire early Thursday during flooding of the Fox River near Wheatland, Wis.
• Aug. 23: With the smoke from a house fire behind them, workers disconnect the electrical power to the home of Paul Zarnstorff in Wheatland, Wis.
• Aug. 23: A Minnesota National Guardsman looks at a pump pulling flood water near an apartment complex.
• Aug. 22: Mark Johnson, of Lehigh, Iowa, and his brother Mike, left, paddle for shore as the family dog, Lexie, swims alongside of the canoe in Lehigh, Iowa.
• Aug. 22: Charlie Dabbs and his niece Cassidy Dabbs ride in a canoe in their farm's corn field in Wheatland township, in southeastern Wisconsin.
• Aug. 21: Aerial photos of floods are seen after overnight rain in Shelby, Ohio.
• Aug. 21: Rescue workers walk south through the floods, helping motorists out of their vehicles on Interstate 75 near Bluffton, Ohio.
• Aug. 21: Abandoned cars and tractor-trailers line the highway as water pours into the Bluffton Stone Co. quarry on Interstate 75 near Bluffton, Ohio.
• Aug. 21: Streets, homes and cars are shown surrounded by floods in Bluffton, Ohio.
• Aug. 21: Bluffton resident Ronald Rich stops his bike ride to watch the floods rush through the intersection of Main Street and Lake Street in Bluffton, Ohio.
• Aug. 21: Neighborhood flooding is shown in this aerial view of the north side of Shelby, Ohio.
• Aug. 21: People stranded by floods are taken to higher ground in Mansfield, Ohio.
• Aug. 21: Bradley Fisher rides his bike on State Route 13 in front of the post office in Mansfield, Ohio.
• Aug. 21: Residents walk through high water in Shelby, Ohio.
• Aug. 21: A flooded car is shown on 5th Street in Mansfield, Ohio.
• Aug. 21: Workers look over a washed-out railroad trestle near La Crescent, Minn., as cleanup and repair continued after severe storms deluged parts of the Midwest with as much as a foot of rain over the weekend.
• Aug. 21: Fog shrouds the hillside above old farm buildings, which are surrounded by floodwater, near La Crescent, Minn. A powerful storm system that swamped the upper Midwest moved into Ohio on Tuesday as weary Minnesota residents returned to their water-logged homes.
• Aug. 20: The contents of a home in the Sunny Acres development at Minnesota City, Minn., sit on the front lawn after floods came through.
• Aug. 20: Cows find a high spot in a flooded field as National Guard troops man a checkpoint outside Houston, Minn.
• Aug. 20: Chris Evanson, left, surveys what was the backyard of his in-laws Stan and Gerri Smith's home in Minnesota City, Minn.
• Aug. 20: From right, Steve and Jodi Kingsley and their friend Kim Anderson pick up belongings from their flooded-out home in Rushford, Minn.
• Aug. 20: A canoe sits on a street in Rushford, Minn., after the town was inundated by a flood.
• Aug. 20: Floodwaters inundate homes in Rushford, Minn.
• Aug. 20: Tricia Lorenz, 35, of Lewiston, Minn., cries near an overturned vehicle that was driven by her missing 37-year-old brother, Jerry, near Lewiston. The car was swept away in floodwaters from Rush Creek near Lewiston. Rescuers searched the river bed Monday by helicopter, foot and with divers in the water.
• Aug. 20: Chunks of pavement lie downstream of a section of washed-out roadway near Pleasant Hope, Mo.
• Aug. 20: Volunteers use a boat to move along a flooded Main Street in Gays Mills, Wis., after heavy rains caused the Kickapoo River to flood.
• Aug. 20: Flooding from the Kickapoo River in Gays Mills, Wis., submerges a park in the town that is known for its apple orchards.
• Aug. 20: Jody Gooden cleans up after floods damaged her husband's art studio in downtown Kingfisher, Okla.
• Aug. 20: George Sauls pushes water, mud and debris from the aisles inside Walter Building Center as cleans up after flood damage in downtown Kingfisher, Okla.
• Aug. 20: Washed-out Wisconsin Highway 60 is shown in Gays Mills, Wis. after floods swept through the area.
• Aug. 20: The seventh fairway at Pine Creek Golf Course outside of La Crescent, Minn., is shown after severe weather moved through the area.
• Aug. 20: Andy Bakalars, assistant street superintendent and recycling coordinator with the City of La Crosse, Wis., speaks on his cell phone while checking on the condition of Bliss Road.
• Aug. 20: High water recedes in Gays Mills, Wis.
• Aug. 20: Neal Markin and his wife, Cindy Markin, look over damage after high water knocked out the bridge over County Road F in Excelsior, Wis. April Miles, 12, right, lives down the street. Heavy rains Sunday morning caused heavy flooding in Western Wisconsin, knocking out roads and flooding homes.
• Aug. 20: Dan Potter of Hokah, Minn., checks hoses for the pumps he is using to drain his backyard.
• Aug. 20: A construction worker stands to the right of where railroad tracks, which acted as a dam, gave out, sending a wall of water into town Friday night in Hermosa, S.D.
• Aug. 20: Sam Groom, 5, front, and brother Garrett, 7, of Steuben, play in the flooded streets of Steuben after floodwaters crested in the small town along the Kickapoo River in Crawford County, Wis.
• Aug. 20: Emily Wallyung, 11, of Wauzeka, right, wades through the street after floodwaters crested along the Kickapoo River in Gays Mills, Wis.
• Aug. 20: Rails remain connected over a washed-out railroad bridge west of Winona, Minn.
• Aug. 20: Houses and buildings protrude over the edge where floodwaters caused the earth to give way northwest of Winona, Minn.
• Aug. 20: A resident stands by the bridge over Money Creek, reflected in the remains of floodwaters that washed away Highway 76 near Houston, Minn.
• Aug. 20: A trailer at Money Creek Haven Campground near Houston, Minn., sits atop a pickup truck following severe storms that deluged parts of the Midwest with as much as a foot of rain.
• Aug. 20: Floodwater inundates Gays Mills, Wis., after a storm dumped rain on the Kickapoo Valley early Sunday.
• Aug. 20: A house rests on railroad tracks in Stockton, Minn., where it was swept by floodwaters from the severe storms that deluged parts of the Midwest with as much as a foot of rain over the weekend.
• Aug. 20: Ricky Quinn 15, left, and Heather Brown, 20, push a van from a flooded street in Barberton, Ohio, as Richard Quinn steers into his driveway. In northeast Ohio, heavy rain caused Wolf Creek to overflow its banks, flooding streets and buildings.
• Aug. 19: Resident Patti Proffitt, getting tired of vehicles driving past cones and through the flooded road, stands in front of a truck to stop it from driving through high water in Bettsville, Ohio. The driver of the truck had moved the cones. Proffitt said the wake crated by vehicles was pushing water into her basement, which already had 4 four feet in it. The driver tried again later, but was stopped by authorities.
• Aug 19: Highway 162 near Chaseburg, Wis., is seen flooded as the area got nearly 11 inches of rain.
• Aug. 19: An Oklahoma Highway Police helicopter rescues a man whose pickup was washed off the road in Kingfisher, Okla.
• Aug. 19: Anthony Krenzke finds his son's pillow in the wreckage of his mother's house near Brownsville, Minn. A mudslide destroyed the house early Sunday.
• Aug. 19: Marlon Raidt wades through rising floodwaters after rescuing two cats in Kingfisher, Okla.
• Aug. 19: Firefighter rescue crews deliver Floyd and Margaret Free, front seats, to dry land after the two were trapped in their residence in Kingfisher, Okla.
• Aug. 19: Sections of Highway 35 near Stoddard, Wis., are shown after floodwaters washed portions of it away.
• Aug. 19: Garrett Sewell shakes debris from his hand after running through rushing water to enter his home on West Broadway in Kingfisher, Okla.
• Aug. 19: Roslynn Hampton holds her 5-month-old son, T'Varez, as she watches floodwaters rise in Kingfisher, Okla.