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This year's severe weather didn't start with flooding; it began with windstorms that devastatingly affected many Indiana residents. Water levels at the Monroe reservoir rose tremendously during the early weeks in May. Residents of Lawrence County have had to deal with overflowed rivers blocking their roads. Coy Timbrook, Bloomington Resident, says, "We are way up on the hill, so we've got a beautiful view of our new lakefront property." He claims that this is the highest he has ever seen the water. Valerie Luchauer, the Emergency Management Director of Lawrence County states, "Most everyone that lives along the river and the tributaries that feed into it, are used to this flooding. They all have made plans themselves to deal with the flooding." Tim Shoemaker, a local farmer, has had to make arrangements to plant his corn around the lack of usable farmland. He says, "In a given year we will have short, medium, and long season corns, it helps to spread out the risk. But when you plant everything late and everything goes to the same maturity, it puts all your risk in one area." According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Indiana had only planted 49 percent of its corn crop, and without corn Indiana's economy could be greatly impacted. Don Villwock, President of the Indiana Farm Bureau, says, "I can tell you farmers are behind on planting all across the state. Here we are almost the first of June and the numbers reflected in the surveys are really May 1st numbers, typically." Al Shipe, Hydrologist for the National Weather Service, claims Homeland Security had emailed him about his monthly reports. In a preliminary report Shipe said he had "graphics showing that some parts of Indiana in a thirty day period, had over twenty two inches of rain." Arvin Copeland, the Director of Response and Recovery for the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, explains how Indiana can get federal money to try and clean up damage that the storms have caused the state. He states, "Two major declarations that we apply for. One is Major Presidential Declaration for Public Assistance. This involves governmental infrastructure: roads, bridges, culvers, and things of that nature." He goes on to state the second declaration is the "The Individual Assistance, the major declaration is for residents, their homes and their belongings." Copeland, discusses how the disaster declaration process works and if it makes it harder to ask for money a second time. He says, "There are certainly budget crunches all over." He goes on to say, "Whether you're in Missouri or Indiana, and the thresholds are the same based on censuses. So short of going into what those thresholds are, there is no limit on how many times you can dip into it." When questioned how much the state will be asking from the federal government in total he claims, "We are looking at approximately ten million dollars right now in infrastructure damage."