An Army Guard UH-60 Black Hawk prepares to drop 1-ton sandbags on a dike to keep it from deteriorating any further June 27. The dike is the only thing holding back the floodwaters in Minot, N.D. from overtaking More
A National Guard security checkpoint sits at the end of a road that now only leads to flooded streets and neighborhoods in Minot, N.D., June 26, 2011. The Air and Army National Guards have checkpoints set up al More
Floodwaters overwhelmed several neighborhoods in the Minot, N.D. area, reaching the south part of the city, pictured in the background here June 26. The National Guard and civilian agencies were able to constru More
Army 1st Sgt. Scott Mai, the 164th Engineer Battalion, Headquarters and Headquarters Company first sergeant, checks in with his family while out on patrol in Minot, N.D., June 29, 2011. Mai had just entered a f More
The floodwaters of the Souris River crept as far as they could before cresting late June 26, sparing the mobile home community pictured in Minot, N.D.
Engineering crews continue to work on a secondary levee in Minot, N.D., June 26, after the initial levee was breached by the swelling floodwaters of the Souris River.
Floodwaters overwhelmed several neighborhoods in the Minot, N.D., area, reaching the south part of the city, pictured in the background here July 26. The National Guard and civilian agencies were able to constr More
Some residences and businesses have been so far spared from the floodwaters of the swollen Souris River in Minot, N.D., June 26.