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Subscribe to RSSAnother installment in my very occasional series of photos about the shoes that get left behind during disasters. I don't think this is a case where someone ran out of the shoes in their haste to get away from trauma, but instead, i imagine it got washed from the home or garage where it used to live.
Charlie Neibergall/AP
A sandal sits in debris as flood waters in the Birdland neighborhood of Des Moines, Iowa recede, Monday, June 16, 2008. Many houses in the area suffered damage from floodwaters that poured into the neighborhood when a levee broke early Saturday morning.