SD: PIERRE FLOODING

Shot 06/24/2011.## SD:Pierre Flooding ((ANCHOR INTRO)) As the waters continue to rise along the Missouri River... so does the price tag for keeping the flood away from hundreds of homes and businesses in the Pierre/Fort Pierre area. The water isn’t even close to receding and already one Central South Dakota town needs the state to come to the rescue with a lot of cash. The question is ... how will the small communities pay back millions of dollars? --------((PKG)) TRT2:24----------- They're trying to live life as normal as possible in this Fort Pierre subdivision. A street away it's reality as the South Dakota National Guard adds dirt to a manmade levee that's holding back the swollen Missouri River. Millions of sandbags are strategically placed throughout the community. The town's public works director can't even estimate the financial impact of this disaster. Brad Lawrence says, "We've got a lot of people displaced. We've got some significant impacts to our infrastructure. We've had significant impact to our income because with fewer people here, we're not using up the water, electricity, those types of things, so our income is going down." Nearly half the town has been evacuated. But some business owners have decided to stay... hoping to make it through the worst times. Bad River Furniture is one of those... just steps away from where the Bad River meets the Missouri, they're making it obvious they're open... although the showroom is empty. And this stuff is normally in the show room? Yeah, it normally is. The store's owner has decided to sell his items from a magazine. He says, "I've got semi trailers. I've got nine storage units. I've rented another warehouse we've got full, and I felt like we moved a mountain." As a mountain of bills begin to pile up... the state has approved a $5?million dollar loan for Fort Pierre to be paid back within five years. The city says another fiv...

Channel: CNN ImageSource Video Length: 46s Date Found: Sat, Jul 02 2011 2:53 AM Category: Stock Footage Date Produced: Fri, Jun 24 2011 12:00 AM View Count: 0