Bobby Kendall poses for a photo, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, next to the wall of sandbags he has placed around his home in the Seattle suburb of Auburn, Wash. Kendall and numerous other home and business owners in the Green River Valley are preparing for a potentially catastrophic flood during the winter rainy season, due to the weakened state of the Howard Hanson Dam. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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