A North Dakota National Guard quick response force team pauses on a rural highway while they wait for a lead vehicle to perform reconaissance of a gravel road leading to a farmstead flood emergency along the Maple River, April 12, near Enderlin, N.D. The QRF is responding to a request from a farm resident through the Cass County Emergency Operations Center for sandbag assistance to create a flood levee barrier against rising water around their house. As of April 12, more than 500 N.D. National Guard airmen and soldiers are conducting flood operations in North Dakota, with the vast majority in Cass County.