Reno rescue team members search a neighborhood in Fernley, Nev., on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008, after a canal levee ruptured from heavy rainfall, pouring more than 3 feet of near-freezing water into hundreds of homes and stranding some 3,500 people across a square mile in their desert agricultural town about 33 miles east of Reno.
The levee that broke, flooding homes in Fernley, Nev., and forcing evacuations Saturday, is in the process of being repaired on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008. As many as 400 homes were damaged when the canal's bank gave way following heavy rainfall, produced by the West Coast storm system that had piled snow as much as 11 feet deep in the Sierra Nevada.
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