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Flooding and Help From Friends
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First speaker: Well probably in the fifty-plus years that we have farmed we have probably had fifty floods. Not every year but some of the times we've had as high as four floods in a year. But in '06 we had one that was seven foot deep in our retail business and two foot deep in our house that we lived in. The house was raised up by the federal insurance company and so forth, so this last one that was last week, we didn't get flooded. But if we hadn't we would have had a foot of water on our main floor then.
Got a lot of nice friends in people. When we'd have friends . . . er, a flood. '04? That was it?
Second speaker: Pretty big one.
First speaker: There was people came from all over. Customers came in and helped shovel mud. My relatives and a couple churches that people came down. We were at a point where, in '06, we were going to probably tear down the house, we'd had that much damage in it.
Second speaker: Yeah . . .
First speaker: By the time we decided for sure that's what we were gonna do there were so many people in there scrapin’ wallpaper off the walls and scrubbin’, and we just couldn't walk away from it then.
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Earl Foote, a Valley View farmer, talks about the flooding challenges he faces almost every year.
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