2000 RealAudio 3.0 Farmers in Day County in northeastern South Dakota have spent the past eight years watching their farm fields become lakes.
Day County is in an area known as the prairie pot hole.
There's no drainage system for the sloughs now filled with water. Randy Knutson's land is scattered between his home and his mother's a mile away. Water separates the two farmsteads that were once connected. He says at peak periods, hundreds of people come to fish what's now called Long Lake - a series of flooded sloughs. See a slideshow featuring other pictures of the area.