AP Photo/Andy Manis
From right, Steve and Jodi Kingsley and their friend Kim Anderson pick up belongings from their flooded out home in Rushford, Minn. Relentless thunderstorms dropped up to a foot of rain on parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin, setting off mudslides and causing flooding that forced evacuations of entire towns.

AP Photo/Morry Gash
Residents make their way down a flooded street Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007, in Winona, Minn.

AP Photo/Jim Mone
John Schomers walks through the rubble Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007 of his brother-in-law's home which was destroyed by a landslide on the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River in Brownsville, Minn.

AP Photo/Andy Manis
Winona County Sheriff's dive and rescue team 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 the rest stop.

AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato
Rescue crew cruise down on flooded streets 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.