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  • While helping the city dig out from heavy snowfall, Ed Dieleman walks past a 20-foot pile of snow in the town square of Oskaloosa, Iowa on Wednesday, February 2, 2011.  Many Oskaloosa residents are saying the heaps are the largest they've ever seen.
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  • Jarod Haxton clears snow from the furnace intake outside  his home in Johnston, Iowa.  His furnace was not running in the morning.  "It was 61 degrees in the house when I got up this morning, so I figured it must've been snowed over," he said.
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  • Dustin Rickels of Monticello gazes out on an emptying Lake Delhi from a cabin deck above a breached dam on Sunday, July 25, 2010 near Delhi, Iowa.  The Lake Delhi dam failed the day before as flooding on the Maquoketa River raised the lake to an unprecedented level.  A 30-foot-wide hole was eaten away from the earthen dam, draining the nine mile long recreational lake and threatening the small downtstream town of Hopkinton.
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  • Macey Stills, 17, of West Des Moines looks at the damage to her car after she lost control in a snowstorm and ran over a fire hydrant in West Des Moines, Iowa.  She was unhurt in the accident, and was waiting for a friend to pick her up.
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  • A man carries a fragment of a highway sign across the yard of a destroyed house Monday, May 26, 2008 in Parkersburg.  An EF5 tornado wiped out the southern third of Parkersburg the evening before, claiming the lives of six people in Parkersburg and two in nearby New Hartford.
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  • The breached dam at Lake Delhi Sunday morning, July 25, 2010.  Flood water breached and destroyed the dam the day before, emptying the nine mile long lake.
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  • Water empties through the breached dam at Lake Delhi Sunday morning, July 25, 2010.
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  • Greg Kromminga of Monticello surveys the emptying Lake Delhi from his dock near the lake's dam on Saturday, July 24, 2010.  The dam is at left, with the roadway directly over it completely washed out.
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  • An empty Lake Delhi Sunday morning, July 25, 2010.  Flood water breached the dam the day before, emptying the nine mile long lake.
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  • A bicycle is revealed in the floor of Lake Delhi Sunday morning, July 25, 2010 as water empties from the lake.  Flood water breached and destroyed the dam the day before, emptying the nine mile long lake.
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  • Interstate 35/80 is bookended by floodwater Saturday, June 14, 2008.
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  • Workers build an emergency levee in effort to hold back flood water  along the west edge of 2nd Avenue Saturday, June 14, 2008 in Des Moines.
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  • Travis Williamson salvages a piece of furniture from his destroyed house Monday, May 26, 2008 in Parkersburg, Iowa.  An EF5 tornado wiped out the southern third of Parkersburg the evening before, claiming the lives of six people in Parkersburg and two in nearby New Hartford.
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  • "There ain't nothing here in this house," said Walt Truitt as he sits on a bare slab that used to be the house of his duagther, Paula Buchholz Monday, May 26, 2008 in Parkersburg, Iowa. "It didn't take two minutes to wipe it all away;" he said of Sunday night's EF-5 tornado.  Truitt survived the tornado with his family in the house's basement.
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  • Cruel irony came in the form of a street sign as Tony Malone pushes a catamaran to help neighbors Calvin and Mike Jennings salvage items from their flooded home on Water Street in Cambridge.  Water from the swollen South Skunk River began rising into homes at 3 a.m.
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  • Closed downtown Des Moines bridges are nearly submerged by the flooding Des Moines River Saturday, June 14, 2008.
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  • A road is washed as a gorge is carved by flow from the Saylorvile Lake emergency spillway during flooding Saturday, June 14, 2008.
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  • Flood water rushes over 2nd Avenue next to North High School in Des Moines after an emergency levee is breached Saturday, June 14, 2008.
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  • Alex Ervanian loads furniture while helping evacuate his friend Brad Teal's house on Hillside Avenue near the Des Moines River south of downtown Friday, June 13, 2008.
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  • A boat navigates NW Beaver Drive Friday, June 13, 2008 in Johnston.  About four feet of water from the flooded Beaver Creek covers NW Beaver Drive.
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  • Members of the Iowa National Guard confer atop a levee protecting the Birdland neighborhood from flood water Thursday evening, June 12, 2008 in Des Moines.
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  • Iowa Gov. Chet Culver bows his head after landing in Iowa City following a tour of the flooded regions of the state Tuesday, June 10, 2008.
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  • The swollen Turkey River engulfs Elkader, Iowa, Tuesday, June 10, 2008.
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  • Iowa Gov. Chet Culver surveys flooding damage on the Upper Iowa River near Decorah during a helicopter tour over Iowa, June 10, 2008.
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  • Kent Wierson feeds bulls on his waterlogged farm near Cambridge. "Not much you can do about it but watch it," he says of the rising South Skunk River that has covered much of his family's  farm.  He says he will have to replant over 400 acres of his fields.
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  • A tornado-twisted stop sign serves as a makeshift flagpole for a tattered American flag on May 26, 2008, while residents try to pick up the pieces form an EF5 tornado that ripped through Parkersburg, Iowa the night before.  Six people died in Parkersburg and two in nearby New Hartford from injuries sustained in the massive tornado.
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  • Justin Hunolt clears snow with a snow blower next to a 20-foot pile of snow in front of the Mahaska County Courthouse in downtown Oskaloosa, Iowa Tuesday morning February 2, 2011.  The huge piles of snow, many locals saying the largest they've ever seen,  dotted the town in each intersection, waiting for removal.
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  • Aplington-Parkersburg students move debris to clear a doorway outside the high school Tuesday, May 27, 2008 in Parkersburg. An EF5 tornado destroyed the high school and wiped out the southern third of Parkersburg two days before, claiming the lives of six people in Parkersburg and two in nearby New Hartford.
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  • Cory Shepard hugs his wife, Kamie on the foundation of Cory's stepfather's destroyed home Monday, May 26, 2008 in Parkersburg.  They live in Parkersburg as well, but their home, on the opposite end of town, was spared.
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  • Kristi Elliott of Ames wades through waist-deep flood water while salvaging some of her belongings from her apartment on South 5th St. in Ames Wednesday morning.  Flooding in Ames, Iowa Wednesday, August 11, 2010 from the flooded South Skunk River and Squaw Creek.
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  • Dormitories on the Iowa State University campus are met by flowing flood water Wednesday, August 11, 2010 from the flooded South Skunk River and Squaw Creek.
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  • Dave Knecht of Ames rides his bike down University Boulevard Wednesday afternoon in Ames.  Knecht was in Ames for the massive floods of 1993 and said today is comparable to that historic flood.  Flooding in Ames, Iowa Wednesday, August 11, 2010 from the flooded South Skunk River and Squaw Creek.
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  • Ryan Kauffman of Urbandale stands with a mud-caked hand while taking a break from flood clean up at LOF Express on South Duff Avenue in Ames on Thursday.  Clean up from flooding in Ames, Iowa Thursday, August 11, 2010.
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  • A boat and part of a boat lift lie on the floor of an emptying Lake Delhi Sunday morning, July 25, 2010.
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  • Water rushes through the breached dam at Lake Delhi Sunday morning, July 25, 2010.  Flood water breached and destroyed the dam the day before, emptying the nine mile long lake.
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  • Workers build an emergency levee in effort to hold back flood water  along the west edge of 2nd Avenue Saturday, June 14, 2008 in Des Moines.  A short while later, the emergency levee was breached.
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  • The Saylorville Lake Spillway, left, and emergency spillway release approximately 42,000 cubic feet of water per second during flooding Saturday, June 14, 2008.
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  • Bill Gaul, Iowa State University graduate student from Des Moines, turns back from flood water covering the intersection of Lincoln Way and University Blvd. Werdnesday morning in Ames.  "I guess I won't be going to campus today," he said.   Flooding in Ames, Iowa Wednesday, August 11, 2010 from the flooded South Skunk River and Squaw Creek.
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  • Carl and Elaine Burkle of Dyersville survey the damage near the breached dam at Lake Delhi early Sunday morning, July 25, 2010.  "It just makes you sick.  Our kids grew up on this lake, such a shame." said Elaine, who has siblings with cabins on the lake.  Flood water breached and destroyed the dam the day before, emptying the nine mile long lake.
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  • Onlookers stand at the edge of the breached dam at Lake Delhi early Sunday morning, July 25, 2010.  Flood water breached and destroyed the dam the day before, emptying the nine mile long lake.
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  • A pontoon boat rests sideways below Greg Kromminga of Monticello surveys the emptying Lake Delhi from his dock near the lake's dam on Saturday evening, July 24, 2010.  The destroyed dam is at rear, with the roadway over it completely washed out.
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  • Water rushes through the destroyed dam on Lake Delhi Saturday evening, July 24, 2010.
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  • Interstate 35/80 north of Des Moines, Iowa is bookended by floodwater Saturday, June 14, 2008.
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  • A trio of bicyclists ride on a narrow strip of land between a flooded parking lot and the Raccoon River Friday evening, June 13, 2008.
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  • Principal Park, almost completely surrounded by flood water from the Raccoon River, made for a placid backdrop for a bicyclist Friday evening, June 13, 2008.  The Iowa Cubs were to host a game Friday night, but the floods forced a cancellation.
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  • People gather to look at high water in the Des Moines River downtown Friday, June 13, 2008.
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  • A railway bridge is partially submerged on the Des Moines River below the confluence with the Raccoon River Friday, June 13, 2008.
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  • Muddy water swirls at the confluence of the Raccoon and Des Moines Rivers Friday afternoon, June 13, 2008.
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  • 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.
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  • Terry Pohlman collects raindrops on the brim of his hardhat while waiting out the storm at Manatt's Construction Company in Johnston, Wednesday morning, June 11, 2008.
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  • Natalie Leverette pats her rain-soaked son, Cameron, 12, on the head while their family works to empty and evacuate their home on SE 9th Street near the swelling Des Moines River Wednesday, June 11, 2008.
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  • Isaac Glanz, 8, of Des Moines west watches a rainbow formed from water spray at the Saylorville Lake spillway.
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  • "I got really upset when I started seeing sentimental things floating," says Barbara Eshelman of how her family could not keep up with Friday's floodwaters pouring into the basement of their Williams Street home near Four Mile Creek on Des Moines' east side.  Wiping sweat from her face, she spent Saturday clearing out her basement and putting everyting into one of two piles -- one for items to salvage, one for items to throw away.
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  • Mitch Jensen, 18, left, and Karson Kromminga, 17, both of Monticello, sit on a dock and watch Lake Delhi empty out near Kromminga's parent's lake home Saturday evening, July 24, 2010.  The Lake Delhi dam in eastern Iowa failed earlier in the day as rising floodwater from the Maquoketa River ate a 30-foot-wide hole in the earthen dam, draining the recreational lake and threatening the small downtstream town of Hopkinton.
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  • Kristi Elliott of Ames retrieves her flood insurance policy from an elevated file cabinet while gathering crucial belongings from her apartment flooded by waist-deep water Ames, Iowa.  Flooding in Ames, Iowa Wednesday, August 11, 2010 from the flooded South Skunk River and Squaw Creek.
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  • Laura Eggers pauses by her floating bed in her flooded bedroom while salvaging some of her belongings from her apartment on South 5th St. in Ames, Iowa on Wednesday, August 11, 2010.
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  • Employees and customers are evacuated from Wal-Mart in a dumptruck and front end loader during flooding in Ames, Iowa, August 11, 2010.
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  • Laura Eggers wades through waist-deep water while salvaging some of her belongings from her apartment on South 5th St. in Ames Wednesday, August 11, 2010. Flood levels for the Skunk River and Squaw Creek in Ames crested at record levels Wednesday, after eight inches of rain fell overnight, inundating the city and the campus of Iowa State University.
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  • Downtown Ottumwa, Iowa is deserted save for a lone pedestrian battling the blizzard and a police car on patrol on February 1, 2011.
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  • Linda Lavery looks at the remains of her house for the first time Tuesday morning, May 27, 2008 in Parkersburg. She and her husband were out of town when Sunday evening's EF5 tornado wiped out 400 homes in Parkersburg, claiming six lives.
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  • Flood Water surges over 2nd Avenue next to North High School when an emergency levee is breached Saturday, June 14, 2008.
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  • m0615floods- Christopher Gannon/The Register - 6/14/08 -   7:42 a.m. - The North High School campus is flooded while workers build an emergency levee in effort to hold back flood water  along the west edge of 2nd Avenue Saturday, June 14, 2008 in Des Moines.  A short while later, the emergency levee was breached.  (Christopher Gannon/The Register)
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  • A ski and pontoon boat sit dry docked in an empty Lake Delhi Sunday, July 25, 2010.  Sun beating down began to dry and crack the lake's muddy floor.  Flood water breached and destroyed the dam the day before, emptying the nine mile long lake.
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  • A footbridge over Gray's lake is submerged by flood water Saturday, June 14, 2008.
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  • The Saylorville Lake Spillway releases massive amoints of water during a period of flooding Saturday, June 14, 2008.
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  • Marcial Leiva of Marsden Building Maintenance places a flood-ruined door in a large dumpster outside the 100 Court Avenue building Sunday morning, June 15, 2008.  Items from the building's basement are being cleaned or thrown out.
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  • Cambridge firefighter Nick Hilgenberg, left, aids Shorty Heslop depart from his flooded home in Cambridge.
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  • Hilton Coliseum is surrounded by water Wednesday, August 11, 2010 from the flooded South Skunk River and Squaw Creek.
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