Associated Press photos



A commercial boat dock is lodged against the Arkansas State Highway 5 bridge, above, in Calico Rock, Ark., on the White River. Heavy rains since Monday caused widespread flooding in northern Arkansas.



Raindrops on a car window reflect a stop sign Thursday in Lowell, Mass. Heavy storms have dumped as much as a foot of rain in the Midwest and left behind more than a dozen deaths. Rivers are still rising and residents of the rain-weary Midwest weigh not just the prospect of a sodden cleanup but the likelihood that it will happen again.