Looking at the green fields in Jefferson, South Dakota, you will never guess that Last summer historical floods Dave and Judy Oborg’s house was converted into a waterfront property that no one wants.
“It will never be the same. I am living in my entire life in this house,” Judy Oburg told CBS News while surveying the loss at that time.
He did not have flood insurance and did not get help from the government. He had to dig in his savings and sell more than one third of his farm.
A year later, Obegs has a new house at a new place at one place, but he built on top of a hill.
To lift the expenses of the house, he saw the local trade school, where students construct two ready-to-dilver houses every year. A residence for a humanity went. Obegs bid and won the other last July.
Judy Oburg said that she still has nightmares, “especially when it rains.”
“People say, ‘Are you not so happy that you have this new house?” They do not understand that my children grew up there, and I grew up there, and they are never going to return, “he said.
Dave Oburg said, “I think what we were going to do was the shock of what we were going to do.” “We found this house, but then work started.”
While farmers usually welcome rain, the region saw 18 inches in two days in the last summer. Eric Hunt, an agricultural meteorologist at the University of Nebraska, now worries what the “whipper weather” is called due to climate change.
“We had about a year of rain in two months,” Hunt said. By October, they were in severe drought as it rained for the next three months. ,
He said, “Time is everything with farming. If it comes at the wrong time, you may have major, major production problems,” he said.
Kenny Chikin, nephew of Obegs, wiped out his family’s 3,000 acres of corn and soybean from the last summer floods. When he dried enough, he started again, and he considers himself lucky that he has saved one third of the normal crop, but it has come at a price.
Chicoin told CBS News, “Irrigation system, stitches, any infrastructure in the region was originally replaced on our own dio. There was no help for that goods.”
So far in this summer, however, Mother Nature is giving back, coming with crops expected. This is something that Obers never took.
“You have to look at the future. You have to leave it in the past, move forward. This is life.”
