Some Pacific Junction residents abandoned their homes wholesale in the wake of the disaster, buying properties in other cities or staying with family. (Photo: Morgan Baskin/VICE News)
Fran Parr surveys the flood damage in her decades-old Pacific Junction home. (Photo: Morgan Baskin/VICE News)
‘This is survival’
Parr has five-year-old twins in pre-K. On the summer afternoons they spent playing outside with their dogs, she says, “those are bygone days.” (Photo: Morgan Baskin/VICE News)
‘They just walked away from it’
After contractors ripped up some of the baseboards of her home, Parr found an old newspaper. On the front page was a story about flooding in Iowa. (Photo: Morgan Baskin/VICE News)