Flooded port operations in Fort Smith and Van Buren managed by Five Rivers Distribution meant at least 17 families would face several weeks or months without a paycheck. But the response by Trent Goins, CEO of Fort Smith-based OK Foods, is just one example of the “amazing” community response to the historic flooding, said U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers.

Womack, along with Gov. Asa Hutchinson, U.S. Sens. John Boozman and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, on Thursday took an aerial tour of flooded areas including record flooding at Toad Suck, Dardanelle, Ozark, Trimble Lock and Dam, Van Buren and Fort Smith.     MORE