In June 2008, hail and rain pounds down on Russ Kozak of New London, Iowa, as he transports a load of sandbags up the Mississippi River to a team of sandbaggers reinforcing the river levee that protects the town of Gulfport, Ill. With the prospect of another season of spring flooding fast approaching, the Army Corps of Engineers insists the earthen flood levees outmatched by the Mississippi River last summer are rebuilt and ready. Not everyone's so sure. (AP Photo/The Hawk Eye, Matt Ryerson, File)
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