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Residents walk through several feet of floodwaters to get to higher ground along Rocky Ford Road in Columbus, Ind. on Saturday, June 7, 2008. Hundreds of residents had to be rescued as floodwater shut off several areas throughout the city. The flooding resulted in one confirmed death and is estimated to have caused several millions in damges. (AP Photo/The Columbus Republic, Mike Dickbernd)
A child collects rain water running off of a tent at a camp for people displaced from Cyclone Nargis near the Irrawaddy Delta town of Labutta, some 320 kms (200 miles) from Myanmar’s largest city of Yangon on May 31, 2008. A month after Myanmar’s cyclone left 133,000 people dead or missing. (AFP/KHIN MAUNG WIN)
People get hit by monsoon-driven waves from the Arabian Sea crashing on a seawall in Mumbai June 7, 2008. (REUTERS/Arko Datta)
A bridge is destroyed by floods in the worst earthquake-hit area of Beichuan county, in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan on June 10, 2008. Muddy, brown water from a quake lake in southwest China was pouring into the flattened town of Beichuan June 10, piling new woes on its tormented population. (LIU JIN/AFP/Getty Images)
Department of Water and Power workers are emptying out bales of plastic balls in the Ivanhoe reservoir in Los Angeles on Monday, June 9, 2008. Department of Water and Power released about 400,000 black plastic 4-inch balls as the first installment of approximately 3 million to form a floating cover over 7 acres of the reservoir to protect the water from sunlight. When sunlight mixes with the bromide and chlorine in Ivanhoe’s water, the carcinogen bromate can form. (Irfan Khan/AP)
Raindrops collect on the petals of a blooming magnolia tree.
A field of colorful tulips come into bloom near King’s Lynn, eastern England.