| | |
 | An aerial photograph shows houses completely submerged by floodwaters from the Mississippi River in Burlington, Iowa, June 18, 2008 click to open  |  | An aerial photograph shows the railroad tracks completely covered by floodwaters from the Mississippi River, bringing train traffic to a halt just East of Burlington, Iowa, June 18, 2008. The swollen Mississippi River ran over the top of at least 12 more levees on Wednesday, as floodwaters swallowed up more U.S. farmland, adding to billion-dollar losses and feeding global food inflation fears. click to open |  | Mike Clem, executive chef at The Drake restaurant, clears out remaining ice from a walk-in freezer after emptying it of frozen foods and transferring them to freezers at nearby grocery stores Monday, June 16, 2008 in Burlington, Iowa. Monday the restaurant was closed while the owner figured out the logistics of how to run it on wood and ice to re-open it on Tuesday. Burlington, a city of about 26,000 in southeast Iowa, has taken a hit from the rising Mississippi. The river, which was forecast to crest at about 25.6 feet early Wednesday, was at about 24 feet Monday. click to open |
| | |
|
|
 |
|
|
p1