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She recalls how when she was little she would see buffalo roam through the village’s fields where rice, corn and chilis would grow. Some neighbors kept fish ponds filled with catfish they could sell at the market or eat themselves.“Everything we needed was here,” she says.

She remembers how the water began to rise. The fields and trees all died from the salt water. All the buffalo were sold as there began to be no land to safely keep them. Even the fish ponds failed, the water getting so high the fish could jump over the netted walls. Eventually the graveyard became flooded, with the dead being buried further away.“It’s just like the ocean here now,” she says.These days, a man comes on a boat during the week to sell them the things they used to be able to grow or raise for themselves. Houses have collapsed around them.

Wahidah says she knows about 40 people who have left, moving to other parts of Java that haven’t permanently flooded yet.“I think the younger generation should move. If they have money they should buy land. But I don’t have money right now, so I stay,” she says.

Sukarman walks on a flooded pathway outside his house in Timbulsloko, Central Java, Indonesia, Saturday, July 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Sukarman walks on a flooded pathway outside his house in Timbulsloko, Central Java, Indonesia, Saturday, July 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)All told, the S&P 500 rose 5.22 points to 5,963.60. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 137.33 to 42,792.07, and the Nasdaq composite rose 4.36 to 19,215.46.

In stock markets abroad, indexes were mixed amid mostly modest movements across Europe and Asia.Indexes were close to flat in both Shanghai and Hong Kong after the Chinese government said

rose less in April than expected. Growth in industrial output slowed to 6.1% year-on-year from 7.7% in March.In the foreign currency markets, the value of the U.S. dollar fell against everything from the euro to the Australian dollar.