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Establishing a hunting lodge helped this producer weather the storm

This video is from SDPB's news program, South Dakota Focus.

Though it can be hard to imagine in our current drought, torrential rains and floods can happen all at once, or over time. In the northeastern corner of the state, shifting weather patterns decades ago turned farm country into lake country. And for one farm family, that heartbreak created a new beginning.

Jackie is based out of SDPB's Sioux Falls Studio.