For more than two weeks now the houseboat residents on Latch Island have watched the Mississippi rise to its highest levels in three decades. Positioned between Winona and the Wisconsin border, and surrounded by river and other flood plain islands, Latch Island serves as a year round anchor for an estimated thirty houseboats. Mainstreet Radio's Erin Galbally reports many in the unusual community plan to wait out the flood waters as the river prepares to crest on Wednesday. {It's taken a few weeks, but slowly, Latch Island has disappeared. Spindly trees holding out against the current are the only things that identify what was land. Sol Simon owns one of the floating cottages that continue to bob along despite the rising river.