Forced to evacuate nearly overnight, residents of Pacific Junction couldn’t access their homes for weeks after the flood, which hit with over a month left in the school year.Īll told, the disaster will cost at least $1.6 billion in Iowa alone.īut now that the hemorrhaging has stopped, the real work begins. Nearly ten-foot water surges swept miles inland, washing through every home in Pacific Junction.Īerial images of the region showed staggering loss: century-old farms destroyed, thousands of livestock drowned, miles of highways submerged and levees destroyed. It’s been five months since a historic flood leveled the roughly 400-person town, along with countless others situated along the Missouri River, in states like Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa. The Missouri River, the source of all that trouble, is still flush with the top of the river bank. 0 + 0 = 00.”Īside from the occasional appearance of a resident gathering garbage into piles outside her home, the town is dead quiet. One house wears green and yellow graffiti insulting both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers: “ARMY CORPS THANK FOR HELP - 0.
