Kim Maggio-Taylor and her nine-month-old daughter Kym'mya Taylor shows the damage in their basement from the flood at their residence in Davenport, Iowa. Kim and her family has been living on the first floor or their apartment because black mold has grown on the second floor and in the basement. (Andrew Link/Quad-City Times)
Herbert and Syble “Kitty” Harker lost almost everything in their basement when sewage and stormwater runoff backed up into the bottom level of their East Moline home. Kitty has lived in the house since she was a child. (Kevin E. Schmidt/QUAD-CITY TIMES)
Ophelia Brooks, 72, of Davenport, shows visitors the basement of her Tremont Avenue home, where 2 1/2 feet of water backed up through a drain the night of the June 12 flash floods. (Kevin Schmidt/QUAD-CITY TIMES)
Lori Griffith and her 13-year-old daughter, Katrina were flooded out of their Moline rental house in June. The pair now reside in their new apartment above The Palace in East Moline. (John Schultz/QUAD-CITY TIMES)
Eight-year-old Elle McDonnell of Dubuque, Iowa, left, competes with 16-year-old Kevin Klouda of Davenport during the rock-paper-scissors competition during the Quad-Cities River Bandits baseball game against the Clinton LumberKings Aug. 11, 2008. (Kevin E. Schmidt)
Jodi and Nick Hughes sit on their papasan chair in the middle of their apartment living room. Having survived a flood and a fire caused by lightning in the apartment, the chair is one of the few things they have to sit on. (John Schultz/QUAD-CITY TIMES)
Anna Schwenneker and her 4-year-old grandson, Caleb, live in rural Port Byron, Ill. (Andrew Link/QUAD-CITY TIMES)
Donald Burkhead is raising his two grandsons, Kyle, 3, left, and Devin, 2, in a home near Donahue, Iowa. The family now has a water heater and new furnace mounted high enough to withstand future flooding and money to buy new drywall. (Kevin E. Schmidt/QUAD-CITY TIMES)
Minde Grantham and her children, from left, Zachary, 11, Trevor, 9, and Evrett, 6, hope to find a permanent home after June 12 flooding in a Davenport apartment destroyed most of their belongings. (Jeff Cook/QUAD-CITY TIMES)
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