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Flood cleanup in northeast Kansas October 4, 2005
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Kim Schroeder, of Topeka, looks over her daughter's room at her parents' home two miles east of Grantville. The weekend flooding left Elmer and Helen Dean's home of 33 years filled with mud and water.
This railroad bridge on the Union Pacific Railroad line west of Perry is one of at least two in the area washed out by flooding. A train hauling freight cars loaded with new automobiles remained stranded on the tracks Monday; four cars derailed on Sunday.
Union Pacific workers work on repairing some of the freight cars that were derailed by yesterday's high water west of Perry.
This roadside marker near Grantville was covered by grass nearly three feet deep. Sunday's heavy rain left its mark everywhere between Topeka and Perry.
Elmer Dean looks over a drainage ditch next to his home just two miles east of Grantville, where he and his wife have lived for 33 years. The ditch overflowed Sunday along with the cornfield behind the house.
Kim Schroeder, of Topeka, holds her parents cat. Her parents home was totaled by the flooding Sunday near Grantville.
Teri Smith with Douglas County Emergency Management checks the water level in the Kansas River on Monday.
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