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m0613floods- Christopher Gannon/The Register - 6/12/08 - Iowa National Guardsman Spc. Dustin Houghton takes a break atop a pile of sandbags adjacent to the Birdland levee Thursday evening, June 12, 2008 in Des Moines. He is one of about 300 guard members helping to raise the levee in anticipation of high flood water from the nearby Des Moines River. (Christopher Gannon/The Register)