On Essential Avenue in Rock Valley, Joane Rozeboom and her daughter, Britney Westra, watched as a tractor with a bucket and claw picked up mangled items — cowhide furnishings, drywall, insulation, flood-soaked clothes in plastic tubs — from exterior their boutique, Copper Rose Attire.
The store had been a dream that they delivered to life two years in the past with assist from their Covid-19 stimulus checks. As they regarded on the destruction on Monday, they stated they’d work to reopen the boutique.
“We’re like, yep, we’re doing it, and it’s going to be not as a lot work as the primary time,” Ms. Rozeboom stated. “However the extra we dig, the extra we discover it’s nonetheless going to be numerous work.”
Elsewhere in Rock Valley, the place the retreating water left behind a swampy stench on Monday that lingered within the 90-degree warmth, the Blieks, the couple who struggled to succeed in security on Saturday, took within the injury at their home.
Mud coated a tangle of recliners, mattresses and finish tables. It was a complete loss.
However on a mantel in a decrease degree of the house, they discovered undisturbed the urn holding the ashes of their daughter, Halee, who died after a automotive accident final 12 months on the age of 35.
“After we received right here, I stated, ‘Randy, we’ve received Halee,’” Ms. Bliek stated. “It was the one factor I used to be actually involved about.”
Lauryn Higgins contributed reporting from North Sioux Metropolis, S.D.
