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  • Sgt. Kervin Beasley of the Des Moines Police Department empties a bottle of beer while placing two men under arrest for public intoxication near 6th Avenue and University Avenue in Des Moines.

  • 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.

  • Paul Maple, 57, of Johnston, crouches at the scene of an accident near the intersection of SW 26th and Watrous Avenue in Des Moines. He was performing concrete work when the skid-steer loader he was driving knocked over the utility pole at left, striking his coworker, who later died from his injuries.

  • "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.

  • Helen Hewitt, 72, lies on a bed in the living room of her Des Moines home on Friday with her nephew, Paul Anderson, far right. She has been unable to pay her utilities and mortgage and is facing a forced move to a nursing home. She suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other ailments, and wants very much to stay home and die in her own house. "My guts just roll," she says of her mounting debt and the likelihood of being forced to move to a nursing home.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Sandra Zabaleta weeps over her husband's casket during his funeral wake in the chapel at Brooks Funeral Care in Des Moines on Saturday. Jorge Vides committed suicide after Zabaleta was arrested and jailed for being here as an illegal immigrant.

  • 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.

  • Julie Bowers, executive director of the North Skunk River Greenbelt Association, wipes away tears as she walks away from the edge of the destroyed McIntyre Bridge on the North Skunk River at the Millgrove Access Wildlife Area in southwest Poweshiek County, August 15, 2010. Bowers had been leading an effort to restore the bridge. The bridge, a bowstring truss, was built in 1883 by the King Iron Bridge Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and is considered one of the rarest and most historically significant types of bridges in the country. Damaged by an ice jam in 2009, and flooding this summer, it finally gave way to nature after spanning the river for 127 years. "I never expected to not see those arches," she said weeping. "But it shocked me today when the bridge wasn't there."

  • 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.