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Megan Kenison and Danielle Baartos look around at the damage outside the house they live in after a storm, Monday, April 14, 2014, in Lake Orion, Mich. A wave of severe thunderstorms has blown across the southern half of Michigan, knocking out power to at least 174,000 homes and businesses and shutting down parts of two interstate highways because of fallen power lines. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Charles V. Tines) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT
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The Evergreen Cemetery is covered by down trees after a storm, Monday, April 14, 2014 in Lake Orion, Mich. A wave of severe thunderstorms has blown across the southern half of Michigan, knocking out power to at least 174,000 homes and businesses and shutting down parts of two interstate highways because of fallen power lines. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Charles V. Tines) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT
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Megan Kenison and Danielle Baartos look around at the damage outside the house that they live in after a storm, Monday, April 14, 2014 in Lake Orion, Mich. A wave of severe thunderstorms has blown across the southern half of Michigan, knocking out power to at least 174,000 homes and businesses and shutting down parts of two interstate highways because of fallen power lines. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Charles V. Tines) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT
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Superintendent Steve Schmelzer stands by his truck on the land formerly Badger Army Ammunition Plant near Baraboo, Wis., on April 10, 2014. The south central Wisconsin property where more than 23,000 people once toiled in making bullets, bombs and rockets during World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars will be open to recreational visitors for the first time since the 1940s. Some 1,500 buildings have been removed from the former Badger Army Ammunition plant on 7,500 acres of land adjacent to Devils Lake State Park near Baraboo. Production of ammunition ended in 1975 and the deconstruction of the plant has been underway since 2004. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal,M.P. King)
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An old sign is posted near Gate House 6544 on the land formerly Badger Army Ammunition Plant near Baraboo, Wis., on April 10, 2014. The south central Wisconsin property where more than 23,000 people once toiled in making bullets, bombs and rockets during World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars will be open to recreational visitors for the first time since the 1940s. Some 1,500 buildings have been removed from the former Badger Army Ammunition plant on 7,500 acres of land adjacent to Devils Lake State Park near Baraboo. Production of ammunition ended in 1975 and the deconstruction of the plant has been underway since 2004. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal,M.P. King)
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This April 10, 2014 photo shows the land formerly the Badger Army Ammunition Plant near Baraboo, Wis. The south central Wisconsin property where more than 23,000 people once toiled in making bullets, bombs and rockets during World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars will be open to recreational visitors for the first time since the 1940s. Some 1,500 buildings have been removed from the former Badger Army Ammunition plant on 7,500 acres of land adjacent to Devils Lake State Park near Baraboo. Production of ammunition ended in 1975 and the deconstruction of the plant has been underway since 2004. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal,M.P. King)
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A rubble pile sits on the land formerly Badger Army Ammunition Plant near Baraboo, Wis., on April 10, 2014. The south central Wisconsin property where more than 23,000 people once toiled in making bullets, bombs and rockets during World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars will be open to recreational visitors for the first time since the 1940s. Some 1,500 buildings have been removed from the former Badger Army Ammunition plant on 7,500 acres of land adjacent to Devils Lake State Park near Baraboo. Production of ammunition ended in 1975 and the deconstruction of the plant has been underway since 2004. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, M.P. King)
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FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2013 file photo, a large excavator shovel scoops up limestone boulders to dump into the Gulf of Mexico to help rebuild an oyster reef off the Texas coast. The $5.4 million project will rebuild some 57 acres of reef, helping to revitalize the fragile Gulf marine ecosystem. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Isidro Reyna said the 250 feet long and 50 feet wide structure was completed Saturday, April 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)