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young children and rush them outside.
• "All I could think of was that the house was going to collapse," she told the Argus Leader. "I don't remember much besides running up to grab my children. It was very scary."
• Dentist Troy Keyes said he was dismayed when he found nine feet of water in his office basement.
• "It's not something you'll like to see when you open the basement door at 7 a.m. on a Sunday," Keyes said. "I looked downstairs and about had a heart attack. I have to keep reassuring myself that it's a material item. My family is

healthy and I'm healthy. It's a hurdle we'll overcome, we'll get past it."
• Keyes, who just recently bought his business, told the Madison Daily Leader that his spirits were lifted when more than 20 people showed up to help. Some of them he did not even know.
• "My first impulse was to call it quits and head out of town, but then help arrived," he said. "They came with tractors and skid loaders. People here are just wonderful."
• The flooding also led to one death, when an Alabama man visiting family tried to wade across a flooded creek and drowned. The body of Douglas Bean, 29, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., was found Sunday afternoon.
• Winds gusting in excess of 70 mph hit Flandreau, a city of 2,300 people about 30 miles east of Madison. Ellen Bergman told KDLT-TV that she lost a garage wall -- though oddly enough her car was fine. Homeowner Troy Hendrickson said he lost part of his roof and rain began coming in faster than he could mop it up.
• "It wasn't just dripping off the ceiling-- it was just running down, and I went in there (to a bedroom) to check it one more time and when I did the whole roof just

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