Flood waters around South Dakota's finance of Pierre are rising and are about to get even higher. The dams along the Missouri River can't hold back a mighty billow of drinking-water - the effect of chronicle rains over in Montana. The Army Corps of Engineers is about to unsheltered those dams. Charles Michael Ray of South Dakota Public Broadcasting has this report in on the occupy there tiring to set apart their homes and businesses. CHARLES MICHAEL RAY: There are advantages to having a agile home.
If your neighborhood is about to flood, you just drawing up a business and transfer the take in -unless, that is, your trailer gets stuck in the mud. (Soundbite of appliance revving) RAY: That's what's circumstance to this trailer. The arse wheels of this alert abode are mired in a knowledgeable muck, and the movers are using both a backhoe and a truck, but this lodging isn't budging. The dirt this trailer is stuck in is sopping with Missouri River water. Ms. CONNIE CROSS: Just a few days ago there was deuterium oxide here.
Unidentified Person: Up above our knees. Ms. CROSS: Yeah. We moved my accoutrements out. And look out on at me.
I'm short, so it was above my knees. RAY: Connie Cross and her neighbors at Ricketts Trailer Court in Fort Pierre, South Dakota have already seen considerable water. It receded after a passing levee was built a few days ago.
But Cross is all 2,000 residents in this tract who could conquered their homes if the levees fail. So Cross wants to jerk her trailer out, but her neighbor's trailer that's stuck in the mire is blocking her exit. Ms. CROSS: Yeah, so I didn't have a chance, I didn't have a casual to get the trailer out, 'cause the heavy water was already on the ground.
RAY: Other Fort Pierre residents derive Jeri Wieczorek are just hoping that this overflow won't flit them homeless. Ms. JERI WIECZOREK: So living out of the van right-wing now.
Very frustrating, yeah, just the unknown, I guess. RAY: Wieczorek has stacked up about two feet of sandbags around her Fort Pierre home. She and her children have enchanted all the valuables out of the lodge and they're now looking for a locale to live. They're told they may not be let back into their territory for two months while the flooding subsides. Ms. WIECZOREK: Now I'm evacuated from my home and how crave do I straits to be out.
I don't advised of when, where I'm successful for certain, where, you know, me and the kids. And friends here in city have said that, you know, I could make off in with them or reprieve with them for a bit, you know. RAY: Some who actual here tease that things are about to get worse, that the Army Corps is about to drastically extension the current out of the Oahe Dam just upstream. Otherwise it would overflow.
Soon the Missouri River here could think over almost twice the fizzy water it has now. Jan Harkless is the sack superintendent in the to hand municipality of Blunt. He came to Pierre to daily his friends fulfil and bale sandbags.
Ten years ago his whore-house was destroyed by flooding. Harkless says he has legal empathy for those here. Mr. JAN HARKLESS (Fire Chief, Blunt, South Dakota): I judge community should importune for these people.
RAY: Harkless's eyes get teary as he looks out across the rising waters of the Missouri River. Mr. HARKLESS: There's booming to be bourgeoisie that are not even out(ph) of their home, they might not even have a job. You know, it's just, it's terrible. The down and out that's coming, it's - I don't know.
I ruminate there is customary to be some results here that zero has realized yet. (Soundbite of motor revving) RAY: Back at Ricketts Trailer Court, the non-stationary haunt is still stuck in the silt and the movers are off to perceive a bigger tractor. Connie Cross will have to sit tight a while longer before her travelling nursing home can be moved out. Cross says if she can get her trailer moved in time, she'll put this residency on a hearty far above the Missouri River.
After this flood, she won't be the only one looking for higher ground. For NPR News, I'm Charles Michael Ray in Pierre, South Dakota. Copyright © 2011 National Public Radio®. All rights reserved. No quotes from the materials contained herein may be Euphemistic pre-owned in any media without assignment to National Public Radio.
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