Halstead Flooding 7.30.2013

MaKenna Blades, 13, walks through the flooding at Riverside Park in Halstead, Kan.

Jon Mesecher and his niece, Kiona, 2, dip their toes in the flooding over the footbridge to Riverside Park in Halstead.

E 5th Avenue Car Wreck 7.29.2013

Loretta Fosnight looks at the truck that struck a tree in her front yard in the 100 block of East Fifth Avenue Monday. Her middle son planted the tree almost 20 years ago. "It was finally getting big to where it was looking really nice," Fosnight said.

Kingman County Fair Demolition Derby 7.27.2013

Last night I went to the Kingman County Fair Demolition Derby to find a driver from Hutchinson. No one from Hutch showed up but I made some contacts and had a ton of fun getting these images.

Travy Cushenbery works on his car before the Demolition Derby at the Kingman County Fair Saturday, July 27, 2013. 

Dakota Lonker laughs as he shows how tight the seat belt is adjusted on his car before the derby.

Drivers listen to an official going over the rules before the derby.

Dakota Lonker sits in line before a heat.

Emergency workers watch as Scott Murphy drives into the arena.

Dalton Cope sits in line before the first heat of the derby.

Fans watch the Demolition Derby.

Jesse Brenner uses a sledgehammer to re-form the back end of a car in between heats.

Crew members make adjustments to a car in between heats.

Travy Cushenbery adjusts a chain hooked to a car and a loader that was being used to lift the car up and re-form the back end.

Dakota Lonker cuts a piece of metal in his engine in between heats.

Dalton Cope jumps out of his derby car as an engine fire blazes. Cope placed seventh.

Firefighters and fans watch the derby.

Dakota Lonker looks out the front of his car after the derby. Lonker placed sixth.

Chris Kresyman helps chain down Charlie Gish's car after the derby.

Car Accident 7.26.2013

Officer Jessica Kelly directs traffic from the scene of an accident at the intersection of 17th Avenue and Lorraine Street Friday, July 26, 2013.

A family rests on the curb at the intersection of 17th Avenue and Lorraine Street after they were involved in a car accident Friday, July 26, 2013.

Officer Jessica Kelly, left, directs traffic as Jimmy Bishop, right, removes a vehicle from the scene of an accident at the intersection of 17th Avenue and Lorraine Street Friday, July 26, 2013.

4-H Fair and Barnyard Olympics 7.25.2013

Alyssa Conrad, 7, looks at the 4-H electronics projects at the Reno County Fair in the Pride of Kansas Building at the Kansas State Fairgrounds Thursday, July 25, 2013, in Hutchinson, Kan.

John Teseh, 9, struggles to life a hay bale during the Barnyard Olympics at Gottschalk Park at the Kansas State Fairgrounds Thursday, July 25, 2013.

Alyssa Conrad, 7, left, Tara Morris, 10, center, and Alexis Conrad, 12, work on flags at the Do-It-Yourself Renaissance Flag making station at the Reno County Fair in the Pride of Kansas Building at the Kansas State Fairgrounds Thursday, July 25, 2013.

Pretty Prairie Storm Cleanup 7.24.2013

Nick Tipton stands on top of a tree Wednesday, July 24, 2013 that fell into his rental home during a storm late Tuesday in Pretty Prairie, Kan.  High winds from the storm late Tuesday, July 23, 2013 knocked over trees and caused damage in the city of Pretty Prairie.

Jim White and other volunteers pick up tree branches and debris Wednesday, July 24, 2013 from a yard that had a tree fall onto it during the storm late Tuesday in Pretty Prairie, Kan.

Dustin Harbaugh uses a chainsaw to cut up a tree Wednesday, July 24, 2013 that fell into a house during the storm late Tuesday in Pretty Prairie, Kan.

Robert Young sweeps out the front of a building Wednesday, July 24, 2013, in Pretty Prairie, Kan., that was damaged during the storm late Tuesday. High winds from the storm late Tuesday knocked over trees and caused damage in the city of Pretty Prairie.

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Sid Graber sweeps up debris Wednesday, July 24, 2013 that was left by the storm that passed through Pretty Prairie the previous night.

Jon Grilliot, left, and his father, Stan Grilliot, right, throw tree branches collected from their yard onto a pile of tree debris next to the rodeo grounds Wednesday, July 24, 2013 in Pretty Prairie, Kan. All of the tree waste from around town was brought here to be burned while other debris was taken to the dump.

A fallen tree next to a house Wednesday July 24, 2013 from a storm the previous night in Pretty Prairie, Kan.