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Wyocena, Wis. workers Phil Johnson, left, and Jared Anderson remove gates from a spillway to allow water to drain from a lake so that a dam there can be repaired, on Tuesday, June 10, 2008. Safety inspector (PAT SIMMS HAS ID) visited the dam at Fall River, Wis. on Tuesday, June 10, 2008. He had praise for the way the dam was maintained and kept clear of debris, alloiwng water to keep moving through the spillway, lessening flooding and lowering the water level. David Pounders feeds pump hose through his basement window in an effort to keep the water level inside below the level of electrical boxes in Pardeeville, Wis. on Tuesday, June 10, 2008. Don Sans Souci and Janet Plant, FEMA disaster inspectors, inspect a flooded house in Columbus on Thursday, June 12, 2008.
A flooded backyard in Columbus on the Crawfish River. David Tracey, director of public works in Pardeeville, on June 12, 2008. Joshua Hensler (left, back to camera), Jordan Neller, second from left, Crystal Crombie, with sandbag, and her brother Kyle Crombie place sandbags to channel an overflowing Crawfish River in Columbus, Wis. on Tuesday, June 10. 2008. A truckload of sandbags and workers rumbles through downtown Columbus, Wis. on Tuesday, June 10, 2008.
Tyler Halatek and other students from a Portage alternative school helped with the sandbagging effort to contain the Crawfish River in Columbus, Wis. on Tuesday, June 10, 2008. Tyler worked in the area where the bags were being filled, hauling and stacking them for the trucks to pick them up. Kids pass around the flood waters of the Crawfish River that now fill the baseball field and parking lot of Fall River high school. A blank score board sits at the back of a completely submerged Fall River high school baseball diamond. A woman prepares to turn her car around after realizing there is no way to cross a washed out bridge on Co. Rd. DG in Fall River.
A downtown Pardeeville street is still closed on Tuesday, June 10, 2008. Resourceful Pardeeville officials created a plastic slip and slide arrangement to channel water out of an overflowing lake, across a street and into another lake, on Tuesday, June 10, 2008. The arrangement protected the street and sidewalk from eroding away and saved at least one building, left.    
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