Spc. Michael Young, of the 817th Engineer Company, wades through flood water after loading a one-ton sandbag from a flatbed truck onto a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter June 24, near a flood levee at 13th Street and Railway Avenue, Minot, N.D. The North Dakota Army National Guard soldiers are responding to an urgent request for assistance from the city of Minot in an effort to save residential homes from rising flood water from the Souris River. The helicopter placed about 28 of the sandbags onto the area of concern along a flood levee neat the homes. Several residential areas of Minot were inundated with flood water on June 24, leaving thousands of people homeless.