(Updated: April 12, 4:01 am)
LEBANON JUNCTION – Basketballers in Lebanon Junction are hooping it up. But it took some discussion from the Lebanon Junction City Council to make it happen. Mayor Larry Dangerfield had the basketball goals on city property taken down last year when the COVID-19 outbreak hit. As the numbers involving the cases reported both locally and around the state began to decrease, the number of activities started to slowly return.
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The governor grew up in this area. if you go up the highway a little bit to the high 7 bridge there are entire ballparks and each basketball goals now that are completely submerged under water. reporter: we saw blackhawk helicopters dropping large sandbags one of the ways that they are trying to mitigate the damage and however difficult the challenge is, the mayor says they will get through this together. this is what happens. i can literally but a facebook message out right now and within 30 minutes i would have a hundred people and that s how much i believe in this choun. reporter: natascha chen, cnn, in arkansas. this threat is far from over. the states in between a major flooding concern right now. think about that when you listen to him say three to five years of our family economy that could be washed out here. this is a big deal.
Right here. it s all underwater. there s usually cattle all over his property. but he says most of the cows have been moved to higher ground. financially, this area will be devastated probably three to five years due to the lack of income and not being able to produce any crops. crops like corn, soybeans, rice which are distributed to other parts of the country. he spray pesticides and fertilizer for a living. he ll have to find work in other states. right now we re flying over a wildlife refuge. it s close to where the levee breached. the opening is bigger than it was a day ago. this dam farther north is structurally sound even with the unusually violent flow of water. senator tom cotton grew up in that area. it s hard to describe how abnormal this is. if you go up to the highway 7 bridge, there are entire baseball parks and even basketball goals now that are completely submerged underwater. we saw blackhawk helicopters
Structurally sound even with the unusual violent flow of water. senator tom cotton grew up in this area. it s hard to describe how abnormal this is. if you go up the highway a little bit there are entire baseball parks and even basketball goals now that are completely submerged under water. reporter: we saw black hawk helicopters dropping large sandbags, just one of the ways local, state and federal partners are trying to mitigate the damage. and however difficult the challenge is the mayor says they ll get through this together. this is what happens. i could literally put a facebook message outright now and within 30 minutes i d get 100 people. that s how much i believe in this town. reporter: cnn, arkansas. all right, let s get more details on all of this and what we have to look forward, if anything. meteorologist derek van dam joins us now. there are 70 river gauges