Two people take a boat down flooded Main Street in Ottawa, Ohio, Friday, Aug. 24, 2007, after storms dumped up to 10 inches during a few hours on Tuesday, coming on top of several days of rain. Seventeen people are now dead in flooding and severe weather that has plagued the Midwest.
Lynn Partington holds up a phone line and a lamp as he went through the rubble of his home overlooking the Mississippi River Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007 in Brownsville, Minn. The home was flattened by a landslide from the hill behind it due to the heavy rains which deluged Minnesota and parts of the Midwest last weekend. Water levels remain high and more rain is expected in some areas.
A woman and a child look out at the flood waters Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007, following heavy rains that caused flooding in Findlay, Ohio. Flooding remained a problem Wednesday in parts of northern Ohio, keeping streets closed, schools shut down and residents waiting things out in shelters.
A group of men look for stranded people in a boat along a flooded street in Findlay, Ohio, Wednesday morning, Aug. 22, 2007, after severe rain.
Cars are shown stranded on a bridge by flood waters Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007 in Findlay, Ohio. Firefighters and a volunteer armada navigated boats through streets awash in waist-deep water Wednesday, plucking neighbors and pets from porches as flooding that has swamped the Upper Midwest and Plains settled in Ohio.
Carmen Ortega works to clean up the mud and flood damage inside the kitchen at her home in Kingfisher, Okla., Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007. The water level reached more than two feet inside the home destroying most of Ortega's possessions. Remnants of Tropical Storm Erin brought high winds and heavy rain to Oklahoma on Sunday, flooding hundreds of homes and businesses and killing six people in the area.
Jeff Strain stands outside his home alongside flood damaged possessions as his daughters Jada (in red) and Anna play in the muddy yard Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007 in Stockton, Minn., as cleanup and recovery continues in flood-ravaged towns in southeastern Minnesota following the severe storms that deluged parts of the Midwest over the weekend.
Houses and buildings protrude over the edge where flood waters caused the earth to give away northwest of Winona, Minn., Monday, Aug. 20, 2007. Floodwaters from the severe storms that deluged parts of the Midwest with as much as a foot of rain over the weekend killed six people in southeastern Minnesota.
Winona County Sheriff dive and rescue team members search a car in the bed of the North Branch of the Rush Creek near Lewiston, Minn., for missing 37-year old man. A rescue worker said it appeared the car was driving on a gravel road when it crossed a bridge over the creek and was swept away, eventually settling along the creek more than 100 feet below a rest stop.
A house rests on railroad tracks Monday, Aug. 20, 2007 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, killing six people in southeastern Minnesota.
Rails remain connected over a washed out railroad bridge west of Winona, Minn., Monday, Aug. 20, 2007, the result of flooding from the severe storms that deluged parts of the Midwest with as much as a foot of rain over the weekend.
Jon Spitzer helps his daughter Caitlyn 5, and their cat, Blackie, after the family was allowed back to their flooded home in Rushford, Minn., to retrieve personal items.
Flooding in Kingfisher, Okla., is shown Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007.
An Oklahoma Highway Police helicopter rescues a man whose pickup was washed off the roadway, in Kingfisher, Okla., Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007.
Firefighter rescue crews deliver Ford and Morgan Free, front seats, to dry land after the two were trapped in their residence on Sunday, August 19, 2007, in Kingfisher, Okla. Storms caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin were expected to weaken after coming ashore in Texas and moving into Oklahoma, but surprised forecasters, producing winds of more than 80 mph and dumping 9 inches of rain in some places.
Garrett Sewell shakes debris from his hand after running through rushing water to enter his home on West Broadway Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007, in Kingfisher, Okla.
A man stands in front of a car on a flooded street Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007, in Winona, Minn. Severe weather deluged parts of the Midwest, washing away bridges and roadways.
A canoe is seen passing some flooded cars outside an apartment complex Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007, in Goodview, Minn.
Sections of Highway 35 near Stoddard, Wis., are shown after floodwaters washed portions of it away Sunday, Aug 19, 2007 following nearly 11 inches of rain that fell in the area.
Anthony Krenzke finds a pillow belonging to his son in the wreckage of his mother's house near Brownsville, Minn., Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007. A mudslide destroyed the house early Sunday morning.