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Darlene Patterson, 73, rests her head in her bedroom at her son Charles' home on Wednesday, April 11, 2018 in Flint. Patterson began to develop a rash when she moved to Flint in 2002. The rash started on her feet eventually spreading to her legs, arms and back. She blames Flint's water for the rash which causes severe itching. Charles, Patterson's son, has also broke out in the rash in 2012. “What I have gathered is that they knew this water was messed up a long time ago," Charles Patterson said. "When they started saying this water is bad it was like 10,000 people moving out a week and that was all the people that had money, they were all the ones that could afford to move away and now all you got is poor people here and they wonder why the crime go up because they don'™t have the money to do anything to survive, they took all the jobs, all the schools, what else is left?"

Flint resident Brayden Benado, 5, looks out the window of his parent's car on Robert T. Longway Boulevard and North Center Road on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018 in Flint. Several minutes earlier Benado was in a vehicle that became stuck when it was driven into high flood waters. "I was scared," Benado said. "When I grow up I'm going to get a truck." Combined with melting snow, rain fall of up to four inches in some places over the last two days has led to significant rises in rivers and moderate flooding across the region, according to a statement from National Weather Service. Flood warnings has been issued for Midland County, as well as the Cass River, Flint River, Kearsley Creek, Saginaw River, Shiawassee River, Swartz Creek and Tittabawassee River.

Flames burst out of an abandoned house on Poplar Street and Kearsley Boulevard on Tuesday, March 6, 2018 in Flint. According to Battalion Chief Ramsey Clapper, the Flint Fire Department has fought roughly 60 confirmed structure fires this year. 

Hamady High School seniors Jimeya Lacy, 18, and her date Demetries Davis Jr., 17, stand for a photo outside the 2018 Hamady High School prom themed "Mask Off" at Insight Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience on Saturday, May 12, 2018 in Flint. The first-time prom attendees arrived in a jet black Chevrolet Camaro wearing matching rhinestone dress and suit, both handmade from a family friend. The couple was one of over 80 students all arriving in similar fashion. "We went out with a bang," Lacy said. Davis adds that he loved prom and though of the experience as amazing.

Between 1,300 and 1,500 people wait in line for a chance to be interviewed by representatives from Lear Corporation during a hiring fair at Kildee-White Regional Technology Center of Mott Community College on Wednesday, January 17, 2018 in Flint. "People were arriving at 5:30 a.m.,"said Amy Fugate, Vice president for Academic Affairs at MCC. "I don't think we expected this many," she said.

Special education teacher at Brendel Bulldogs Phil Pickard belly-flops into Lake Fenton on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018, during the Michigan Law Enforcement Polar Plunge for the Special Olympics at the Fenton Moose Lodge in Fenton. The event raised $81,000 for the Special Olympics. 

A groups of protesters join thousands that march to the frontline on Highway 1806 near the Oceti Sakowin Camp outside the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota on December 5, 2016. 

The Garden City Lady Arm Wrestlers (GCLAW) is made up of Missoula women who use their strength to raise money for Missoula non-profits and the surrounding communities. GCLAW wrestlers, Christine Bond, left, wears a "penalty box" as she locks wrists with Rachel Mockler to battle for the title of the next Queen Wrestler of the Northside neighborhood in Missoula, Montana on July 28, 2015. 

Jarrett Mauger, 7, rides his scooter down the sidewalk on South 30th Street in Billings, Montana on March 24, 2017. 

Larry Nava warms up at a speed bag at Barrio Golden Gloves boxing gym on South 31st Street on Wednesday, May 24. Nava is one of several kids in the neighborhood that attend the gym run by Manuel Hernandez and Richard Shepherd. The gym was once used as a garage and now serves nearly 20 kids who come to learn self defense and boxing after school.

A woman embraces a young boy after a shooting took place at the Rose Park Plaza Apartments sending two men to the hospital in Billings, Montana on Saturday, March 18, 2017.

Barney Myers holds still while barber Marvin Schmitt trims his eyebrows in the salon at St. John's Lutheran Ministries retirement community on Monday, August 7, 2017. Schmitt has been cutting Myers' hair since the 1970s. Read full story here. 

Travis Kindt Jr., 2, begins to cry as barber shop owner Chris Ascencio and Kindts' mother Summer Freeman try to settle him during his first ever haircut at Ascencio's Barber Shop on Richfield Road on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2018 in Flint. The barber shop has been doing first-time haircuts since it opened in 1993. Ascencio has seen it all. He once had a kid turn around to try and claw him while he was trimming the boy's hair. Kindt put up a similar fight until his mom came to side. "On the scale from one to ten he was a high nine," Ascencio said. Once Kindt's hair was buzzed and trimmed, he received a certificate with his name on it stating he had received his first ever haircut. 

Isotope geochemist Pennilyn Higgins celebrates after successfully adjusting the total station survey tool to locate a fossil at the bottom of the Natural Trap Cave near Lovell, Wyoming on July 13, 2016. The 75-foot pit cave is a source for fossils for paleontologists. For thousands of years, animals plunged to their deaths into cave. From stilt-legged horses to 900-pound American lions three times the size of those now living in Africa. 

Becky Bruner and Dan Stusek share a moment during the Reed Point street dance after the annual Yellowstone Boat Float in Reed Point on Saturday, July 8.

As the mariachi band began to sing the song "Volver, volver" meaning to return, Mary Chavez began to cry. "It reminds me of my mother, Maria Belmarez," Chavez said. The band came to sing for mothers at Parkview Care Center in Billings on Sunday, May 14, 2017. 

Eagle’s Nest Academy students and high school students from University Prep in Detroit and the Greene School in Rhode Island hand out water to residents who have been affected by the water crisis on Friday, May 4, 2018 in Flint.

Sophia Fletcher, 5, of Flint, stands next to a sign showing a picture of her grandmother Jill Robison's kitchen faucet during the height of the Flint Water Crisis in a four-year anniversary protest at City Hall on Wednesday, April 25, 2018 in Flint.

Head custodian Jeff Skovgaard walks through a tunnel leading to another part of a building in the Lincoln Center on December 22, 2017. The center is known for it's underground tunnels that at one point was a part of a system that heated the city's center. Now, it's a part of the city's oldest urban legends, where many believed bootleggers, prostitutes and opium dens were hidden during the 1900s. Read full story here.