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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Brookings County flooding


Yesterday the local newspaper reported that Brookings County, as well as neighboring counties, gets a disaster declaration from the federal government. Flooding caused over a million dollars damage to infrastructure. Thirty families were flooded out of their homes and spent several nights in emergency shelters.

3 comments:

  1. We didn't know we lived on the sea shore but it sure did look that way.

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  2. Federal aid?
    Sounds socialist to me.

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  3. The water has now receded, but the damage is still there. Federal aid will only pay for 75 percent of the damage.

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