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National Edition News cover for March 15, 2014 - Lawmakers deluged by complaints void 2-year-old flood insurance plan: FILE - In this June 27, 2011 file photo, floodwaters from the Souris River surround homes and a back hoe near Minot State University in Minot, N.D. A program that will help homeowners in Minot with repair costs following the devastating Souris River flooding two years ago is proving popular. More than 700 people have applied for assistance from the program that offers grants of up to $10,000 to those who qualify. The application period runs through the end of the year. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
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**FILE** The Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant at Okuma in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan, is seen here on Aug. 20, 2013. Scientists have crowd-sourced a volunteer network to monitor radiation moving across the Pacific Ocean since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami damaged the plant. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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FILE - In this April 8, 2011 file photo, a welcome sign for Fargo, N.D., sits in the rising floodwaters of the Red River as a flood engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, at left, inspects the levee protecting the downtown area. The Red River Diversion Authority is meeting Thursday, March 13, 2014, in Fargo for the first time since President Obama left the project out of his budget plans. The $2 billion channel would move water around Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., which has prepared for major floods in four of the last five years. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
