Water Agony: Levees Break, People Evacuate, Electricity Gone, Homes Flood, Animals Scramble, Crops Drown
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ORIGINAL CAPTIONS: Charlie Lough herded his cattle onto the porch of his farm house June 11 before he fled to safety from the rising waters of the Cedar River north of Vinton, Iowa. Flood waters have inundated the electric plant in Vinton and the entire city is without power. (Steve Pope / AP). The National Guard and local volunteers work to protect an electrical plant as water from the Cedar River continues to rise June 11 in Vinton, Iowa. Flood waters have the entire city without power. A cloud formation moves over Oconmowoc, WI June 8, as the state contends with heavy rains, wind and flooding. (John Hart / Watertown Daily Times via AP). A farm West of Reedsburg, WI is inundated by floodwaters released after an earthen dam along a man-made lake gave way June 9. (Steve Apps / Wisconsin State Journal via AP). Crystal Cummins, right, is comforted by her husband, Jeremiah Cummins, while her brother, Jeff Williams look on at the washed-out section of Lakeshore Drive, south of Douglas, MI, early June 8. Police say Clarissa Jean Green, 51, and her nephew, Dean Alan Taylor, 17, both of Grand Junction, were delivering newspapers for The Grand Rapids Press when they drove off the washed-ut road and were killed. (Paul L. Newby II / The Grand Rapid Press via AP). A house pitches forward into where Lake Delton had been on June 9 in Lake Delton, WI. Floodwaters breached an embankment, emptying the lake into the Wisconsin River. (Andy Manis / AP). Floodwaters cover farmland and roads near Paragon, IN June 8. (Alan Petersine / The Indianapolis Star from WTHR Chopper 13 via AP).
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