Melesia Martinez works to clear debris from the drainage ditch in front of her Houston home Monday, June 19, 2006 as her son, Rex Tello, 5, splashes through the water. Torrential rainfall shut down highways and caused widespread flooding in Houston and southwest Louisiana. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
Terry Mathes, co-owner of A-1 Used Tire Co. with his wife Devon Mathes, rolls a tire out of the shop to place back on a truck, whose owner came in for a tire rotation and balancing in February 2008. The business is located in the Old Yellowstone District, an area near downtown that is being redeveloped. (File, Star-Tribune)
A migrating pronghorn antelope is silhouetted against the clouds north of Cora recently. Public comment on the Pinedale Resource Management plan has closed, and most favor a scenario that gives wide environmental protections in the energy-rich area. Photo by Mark Gocke, Star-Tribune correspondent
A male blue grouse offers a showy display in hopes of gaining breeding rights to nearby females. Photo by Mark Gocke, Star-Tribune correspondent.
A skier plows through fresh powder at the Grand Targhee Ski Area in western Wyoming last week. (Kevin Cass, courtesy photo)
Third-grader Tony Martin returns a week's worth of books back to the Natrona County Library bookmobile during a stop at Red Creek Elementary School on Thursday.
Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune
A migrating pronghorn antelope is silhouetted against the clouds north of Cora recently. Public comment on the Pinedale Resource Management plan has closed, and most favor a scenario that gives wide environmental protections in the energy-rich area. Photo by Mark Gocke, Star-Tribune correspondent
Crews work to stamp out the remains of a fire on Casper Mountain on Tuesday morning. The fire was contained after crews worked through the night. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune.
A small collection of sage grouse strut and puff during the annual mating ritual. Males blow up a sack on their neck and make a unique sound while trying to attract a mate. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
Two sage grouse perform their annual mating display at the Hat Six Lek east of Casper earlier this month. The number of birds in their once-popular mating ground have been decreasing in recent years. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
Two sage grouse perform their annual mating display at the Hat Six Lek east of Casper earlier this month. The number of birds in their once-popular mating ground have been decreasing in recent years. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune Donny Williams, left, and Jack Williams unload pieces from a trailer home Friday afternoon at the Casper landfill.
A motorist tries to repair his car flooded in high water along a roadway in the Ocean View area of Norfolk as the area was pounded by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
An Ocean View resident cleans up siding that was torn off a building in the Ocean View area of Norfolk, Va., as the area was pounded by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida Thursday Nov. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
A motorist tries to repair his car flooded in high water along a roadway in the Ocean View area of Norfolk as the area was pounded by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
An Ocean View resident cleans up siding that was torn off a building in the Ocean View area of Norfolk, Va., as the area was pounded by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida Thursday Nov. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
A motorist tries to repair his car flooded in high water along a roadway in the Ocean View area of Norfolk as the area was pounded by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
An Ocean View resident cleans up siding that was torn off a building in the Ocean View area of Norfolk, Va., as the area was pounded by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida Thursday Nov. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
A motorist tries to repair his car flooded in high water along a roadway in the Ocean View area of Norfolk as the area was pounded by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
An Ocean View resident cleans up siding that was torn off a building in the Ocean View area of Norfolk, Va., as the area was pounded by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida Thursday Nov. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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