

Heavy equipment is used in the effort to reinforce a temporary levee, April 22, in Clarksville, Mo. The swollen Mississippi River has strained a hastily erected makeshift floodwall in Clarksville, creating two trouble spots that volunteers were scrambling to patch. Jeff Roberson/AP
Kevin Eastman, (l.), prepares his bow for fishing on the flooded Missouri Highway 94 just outside of West Alton, Mo., April 24, as his brother, Sean Eastman, both of Ferguson, Mo., fights to keep the strong current from pressing their boat against the guardrail. The Mississippi River has flooded the highway, which is closed. John Badman/The Telegraph/AP
Snow accumulates on a stop sign along 33rd Avenue in St. Cloud, Minn., April 11, 2013. Ice and snow left thousands of homes and businesses in Minnesota and South Dakota without power. Dave Schwarz/The St. Cloud Times/AP
Aimee Greenwalt (l.) and Amanda Parish survey the damage in Hazelwood, Mo., caused by a storm, April 10, 2013. Butch Dye, a hydrometeorological technician with the National Weather Service in St. Louis, said severe weather struck the suburb of Hazelwood. David Carson/Post-Dispatch/AP
Jackie Arrandondo is covered with snow as she waits for the city bus, Feb. 22, 2013 in Minneapolis. A major snowstorm that buried parts of the Midwest grazed southern Minnesota, where two to three inches of snow snarled the morning commute in the Twin Cities area. Elizabeth Flores/The Star Tribune/AP
Tom McReynolds clears snow from a neigbors' house in Wichita, Kans., Feb. 21, 2013. Kansas was the epicenter of the winter storm, with parts of Wichita buried under 13 inches of still-falling snow, but winter storm warnings stretched eastern Colorado through Illinois. Jaime Greene/The Wichita Eagle/AP
In this file photo, a neighborhood near New Haven, Conn., is buried in snow in the aftermath of a storm that hit Connecticut and much of New England Feb. 10, 2013. Connecticut officials plan to seek additional federal reimbursement for storm-related expenses incurred by the state and municipalities during the recent blizzard. They say their request is justified given the enormity of the storm, which left up to 3 feet of snow in some places. Craig Ruttle/AP
A Hattiesburg, Miss., resident walks through a tornado damaged neighborhood Feb. 11, 2013, after cutting away branches blocking a senior citizen's entrance to her home following a Sunday afternoon tornado that caused damage throughout the South Mississippi college town. Rogelio V. Solis/AP
People use a kayak to make their way through floodwaters caused by torrential rains in Lismore, northern New South Wales, Australia Jan. 29, 2013. Thousands of Australians huddled in shelters as torrential rains flooded cities and towns in the northeast. Samantha Cantwell/NSW State Emergency Service/AP
Chicago Fire Department Lieutenant Charley De Jesus walks around an ice-covered warehouse that caught fire in Chicago January 23, 2013. An Arctic blast, with at least three deaths linked to the frigid weather, and fierce winds made some locations feel as cold as 50 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (minus 46 degrees Celsius). John Gress/Reuters
A man carries his son across a flooded area at the business district in Jakarta January 17, 2013. W Supri/Reuters
Swans swim in a partially frozen channel in a forest in Nalibokskaya Forest Reserve near the village of Buni, some 80 km (50 miles) west of Minsk, Jan. 24, 2013. Forestry staff additionally fed wild animals every three days because of cold weather and heavy snow in Belarus. Sergei Grits/AP
An Indian walks surrounded by fog as the sun rises in Ajmer, India, Jan. 1, 2013. North India continues to face extreme weather conditions with dense fog affecting flights and trains. Deepak Sharma/AP