Swollen Rivers Receding in Hard-Hit Ind.

“You can't see; it's snowing, the wind is blowing”

Troy Nice looked out over the swollen Tippecanoe River and the houses surrounded by its spilled water. He wondered how his own home had fared as the water began its slow retreat on Wednesday.

'I didn't think it would come up like this,' said Nice, 39. 'I managed to get my guitar, dog, and I got my cell phone charger, and some little things. This is the worst it's ever been.'

Nice returned to this stretch of river a day after fleeing the rising water with hundreds of other residents. The Tippecanoe reached record levels along the 20-mile stretch from a storm that dumped as much as 7 inches of rain in parts of northern Indiana. Read more