Monday is the deadline for victims of this summer’s Missouri River flooding to apply for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Some folks in the area complain the assistance is coming slowly, even though five Northwest Missouri counties have already been granted nine million dollars in FEMA funding, including five million in SBA loans and three million dollars in individual grants.

Holt County was particularly hard hit. In Big Lake Village, damage is widespread, with many structures bearing silent witness to the destructive power of the floodwaters. Buildings were damaged, destroyed, or washed away; center-pivot irrigation devices were rolled and bent and snapped, and some barely-recognizable pieces of buildings were moved hundreds of yards.

We took these photographs in and around Big Lake Village on December 9. Click each individual images for a larger version of the photographs.