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Last December, Washington state saw historic flooding in multiple counties, including here in Snohomish County.

Reporter Venice Buhain tells us how one Snohomish County farm has coped in the three months after the flood.

Where I'm standing was over my head right now.

And where the field was, was 15 feet deep with flood water.

BUHAIN (VO): In many ways, Father Jim Eichner of Food Bank Farms in Snohomish is lucky.

The nonprofit farm that grows produce for food banks saw people pitch in with donations and helping hands.

EICHNER: Cleaning up, rebuilding, tons of volunteer labor.

So those were resources I had, that that other people might not be able to get to.

BUHAIN (VO): For more than two weeks in mid-December, three storm systems hit more than a dozen Washington counties, forcing 100,000 people to evacuate.

Nearly 4,000 homes were damaged and one person in Snohomish died.

In Snohomish County, the floods did at least $18 million damage to public infrastructure and $5.5 million damage to private property.

But that's not counting damage to agriculture or future impacts.

NEUNZIG: So one of our largest producers, he said it may be a complete crop loss this year, or maybe he'll get a third of his production.

That's huge.

That's a big economic loss to that producer.

And we have multiple farms that were like that this year.

BUHAIN (VO): Agriculture is the second largest industry in Snohomish County, with 1,400 farms and 70,000 acres of farmland.

Despite the widespread damage, FEMA hasn't yet declared the December storm a major disaster, which would unlock aid from the U.S.

Department of Agriculture.

But Father Jim says don't underestimate the resilience of farmers.

EICHNER: Well, farmers don't want any pity.

They're pretty tough.

[laughs] They just want people to buy their produce, their products, their bales of hay, their their beef and all of the things that they that they produce out here.

VO: In Snohomish, this is Venice Buhain, Cascade PBS.

I'm Paris Jackson.

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