Sioux City, Iowa — Iowa Senator Joni Ernst toured flood damage in northwest Iowa Tuesday. The Republican from Red Oak says there will be a variety of help available.
Ernst saw the damage and destruction of flooding firsthand as an Iowa National Guard soldier, but says the latest event is something different.
Ernst met privately with city, county, and state leaders at the emergency operations center in Sioux City Tuesday. Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux, Emmet, and Clay counties are part of the latest federal disaster declaration for the state. Representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency were at the high school in Hawarden Tuesday to meet with some of the victims. Iowa Lieutenant Governor Adam Gregg is a Hawarden native. He says family members had eight to ten feet of water in their homes from the Big Sioux River.
Gregg spoke about the flooding while touring affected communities Monday. FEMA staff are also beginning to sign people up for individual and small business assistance in other communities in the five counties approved in the most recent federal disaster declaration
(Photo from Office of Governor Kim Reynolds.)
