Aimee Cutter, the owner of Beach House restaurant, walks through water surge from Lake Pontchartrain in Mandeville, La. Hurricane Barry made landfall Saturday morning. Matthew Hinton/AP hide caption
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A baby's nursery furniture is strewn about in a flooded Rosslea home on Feb. 5. Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images hide caption
Howard County Police officials said rescuers pulled the body of Army National Guardsman, Sgt. Eddison Hermond, from the Patapsco River Tuesday. Howard County Police Department via AP hide caption
Ellicott City, Md.'s Main Street was turned into a raging river on Sunday, in a catastrophe that followed another flash flood in 2016. The water wrecked storefronts and left cars strewn amid debris on Monday. Katherine Frey/The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption
An image from video provided on Saturday by the U.S. Coast Guard shows flooding along Kauai's Hanalei Bay, Hawaii. Brandon Verdura/U.S. Coast Guard/AP hide caption
A car leans against a building, the result of the immense and sudden floods that hit Mandra, a town near Athens, on Thursday. Petros Giannakouris/AP hide caption
A helicopter flies above the rugged terrain along the banks of the East Verde River during a search and rescue operation for victims of a flash flood on Sunday in Payson, Ariz. Search and rescue crews recovered bodies of five adults and four children. Ralph Freso/AP hide caption
An area in Tonto National Forest in Arizona. Charmaine Noronha/AP hide caption
Debris and water cover the ground in Hildale, Utah, where a flood ripped through the town Monday. Mark Lamont/AP hide caption