Huskers Help With Flood Recovery

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As part of the University of Nebraska's flood serviceship program, several Huskers spent their summer helping communities across the state recover. In this video, senior agricultural and environmental sciences major Alex Voichoskie discusses her experiences interviewing residents of Lynch, Nebraska. Tayte Jussel, a sophomore advertising and public relations major, also shares what he took away from a summer educating homeowners on how to protect their homes from mold.

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[00:00:00.410]I'm reporting for the world radio network,
[00:00:02.380]I'm Alex Voichoskie.
[00:00:03.540]This University of Nebraska-Lincoln senior
[00:00:05.930]is comfortable behind the microphone.
[00:00:08.410]Alex Voichoskie is a farm broadcaster
[00:00:10.780]and a student in majoring in agricultural and
[00:00:13.620]environmental sciences communication.
[00:00:16.150]But all her experience didn't prepare her
[00:00:18.620]for what she saw in Lynch, Nebraska
[00:00:20.684]after the Spencer Dam collapsed.
[00:00:23.210]The roads were completely washed out,
[00:00:24.930]you had to take a detour that
[00:00:26.960]nobody had probably ever traveled regularly
[00:00:30.061]in this, and this was an awful road.
[00:00:31.850]Alex and fellow classmates
[00:00:33.610]traveled to flood-ravaged communities
[00:00:35.940]to tell the story of the Spring floods.
[00:00:38.740]Her video is posted on a class website.
[00:00:41.224](somber music)
[00:00:44.520]This town looked like a war zone.
[00:00:47.419]In her video, Alex talks to a woman
[00:00:50.390]who was remodeling a house in Lynch before
[00:00:52.920]the flood waters hit.
[00:00:54.640]When I come down here the first time,
[00:00:56.838]I'm going to start crying.
[00:00:57.671]When I come down here the first time on Sunday,
[00:01:00.210]I didn't even want to go in and see it,
[00:01:02.230]because it was such a mess.
[00:01:04.049]But it was hard for her sometimes to get that out.
[00:01:07.070]And she did choke up a lot of times,
[00:01:09.220]and it gave me chills every time
[00:01:10.710]she talked about it.
[00:01:11.790]And so my game plan was,
[00:01:13.700]find her story,
[00:01:15.290]what is her story,
[00:01:16.260]because everybody in that town wanted their story
[00:01:18.560]to be heard.
[00:01:19.432]UNL students played a role
[00:01:21.840]in Nebraska's historic flooding
[00:01:23.760]in other ways.
[00:01:25.160]Tate Jessel had a flood serviceship
[00:01:27.530]with the Central Nebraska Economic
[00:01:31.320]Development District.
[00:01:32.230]And they're telling me about how
[00:01:33.405]there's mold everywhere in those houses
[00:01:34.500]So, what I wanted to do is
[00:01:35.930]just kind of give information about mold.
[00:01:38.030]And, how you get rid of it,
[00:01:39.590]and how it can affect your health negatively,
[00:01:42.210]and things like that.
[00:01:43.821][Narrator] Tate created infographics about black mold,
[00:01:46.450]and he distributed information at county fairs.
[00:01:49.890]Getting out to the community,
[00:01:51.340]or just getting out to the public about how
[00:01:54.030]the flood that happened in March,
[00:01:55.230]because I just feel like a lot of people
[00:01:56.340]still don't really know,
[00:01:58.685]or I feel like a lot of people really feel like
[00:02:00.099]that the flood's kind of over,
[00:02:02.330]and, but community's are still being affected
[00:02:04.580]by it.
[00:02:05.432][Narrator] Flood serviceships like Tate's
[00:02:07.917]were funded by the University of Nebraska.
[00:02:09.510]Students gained practical experience
[00:02:11.848]while giving back to their state.
[00:02:13.889]Tate is from O'Neil, and knows the value
[00:02:16.830]of a small town.
[00:02:18.350]It's a family.
[00:02:19.340]You know everybody,
[00:02:20.270]and you're going to support everybody
[00:02:21.960]no matter what.
[00:02:23.140]I feel like they're going to recover,
[00:02:24.840]that just because of them being all together,
[00:02:27.440]and just working for one common goal.
[00:02:30.184](water running)
[00:02:32.480]You saw sand deposits
[00:02:34.760]and all this land that was washed out.
[00:02:36.444]But then you saw the people
[00:02:38.410]and the people were not washed out.
[00:02:39.243]The people still had power.
[00:02:40.860]They were strong.
[00:02:41.930]And that is what struck me the most,
[00:02:45.220]is these people were so strong after
[00:02:48.330]something that happened,
[00:02:49.390]that their lives were devastated,
[00:02:50.840]everything they had was gone.
[00:02:52.092]But they were still there.
[00:02:53.565]We will rebuild and we will be Lynch.
[00:02:55.860]Lynch, Nebraska strong.
[00:03:00.845](somber music)

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