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U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Eric Johnson, 119th Wing, North Dakota Air National Guard, passes a sandbag along a human chain of flood fighters standing in knee-high floodwater southeast of Kindred, N.D., on April 21, 2009. Johnson is helping the group build a temporary flood levee to hold back rising water near a farmhouse. High water from the Sheyenne River is making its way over land and across roads posing a threat to residents of Cass County, N.D.

Master Sgt. Eric Johnson passes a sandbag.

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Eric Johnson, 119th Wing, North Dakota Air National Guard, passes a sandbag along a human chain of flood fighters standing in knee-high floodwater southeast of Kindred, N.D., on April 21, 2009. Johnson is helping the group build a temporary flood levee to hold back rising water near a farmhouse. High water from the Sheyenne River is making its way over land and across roads posing a threat to residents of Cass County, N.D.

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