Students comment on competition keeping up with the neighbors' recovery efforts.
Jacobi walked down toward the coulee near his home and stood transfixed as he realized river water was beginning to envelope a neighbor's home. He hurried home and came back with his mother, Ellen Jacobi. By then, other neighbors had gathered to watch. Then, a woman he didn't know came up to them and hugged them both. He said it was then that he knew the disaster was real.