“Back in March, Dale Ronfeldt’s yard looked like a lake. He joked with a photojournalist who asked if he had lakefront property.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ “Yes I do. You want to buy some?” replied Ronfeldt. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Ronfeldt’s home is located in Hornick in western Iowa’s Woodbury County. Hornick is one of many areas in the state that are still recovering from last spring’s flooding.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Last March, the West Fork of the Little Sioux River overtopped a levee, spilled into town, and inundated the city’s lift station. The county sheriff’s office measured 3 feet of water had flooded the city’s main street.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Hornick applied to the state’s $15 million flood recovery fund to get funding to build a berm that will protect the city from future flooding. The town was awarded just over $2 million for this project, and plans to build it in the next couple of years.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Iowa’s Flood Mitigation Board divvied up the entire $15 million fund to Hornick, Hamburg, Pacific Junction, Fredonia and Mills County for flood recove...