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It was Tim and Liz Fromm's dream house, on picturesque Lake Delton in
central Wisconsin-built for vacations, but beautiful enough to become their
permanent residence. But it has all been washed away. Flash flooding turned
the usually serene lake into a churning river on Monday and ripped the
Fromm's home off its foundation. Swept away forever were unrecoverable
keepsakes, leaving behind only a cruel reality-the Fromms did not have and
were not eligible for, flood insurance. Everything that we have is gone, Tim
Fromm told TODAY co-host Matt Lauer Wednesday. You can replace
furniture and TVs and everything else. But it's the memories. We have no
pictures of our younger daughters anymore. We had binders and binders and
books of all the kids growing up.

Adding to the hardship was the Fromms' feeling of helplessness. Their
neighbors' house had suffered the same fate when the embankment of the
245-acre man-made lake gave way. While a news video camera documented
the loss of their home, Liz Fromm refused to watch it with her own eyes. It
was just too hard, she told Lauer, surrounded by daughters Amber, Ashley
and Allie. Knowing it was coming was hard enough. I didn't want to see it. It
was just too much.

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