With bright green wheat sprouts already blanketing much of the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, excavators sit on the banks of silted-in ditches. One scoop at a time they're digging out what the U.S.

This week on Digger Girl Diaries, I’m back at the demolished cottage site to clear rubble and widen the driveway for truck access. Then it’s on to serious rock breaking using the Hyundai excavator ...