While much of Nebraska has seen damages from spring storms and flooding, there may be a long-term impact especially to counties.
Larry Dix, Executive Director of the Nebraska Association of County Officials, says if farmland is too damaged to be farmed, that will hit property taxes that fund much of county government..

Dix says it will take time to get a lot of that farmland back into production…

Dix says there are some areas seeing permanent changes to the land…

Dix says local, state and federal officials are scrambling to figure out how to pay for the needed repairs.