What’s going on down there?
Haven’t seen this on FR yet.
Don’t really watch regular cable.
Heavy rains?
It was/in a REALLY Bad Combo of a VERY Snowy/one Blizzard Feb, A VERY Heavy Rain/Thunderstorm, Frozen Ground and US Army Corps of Mis-Enginneeers mismanagement of the Missouri River Locks and Dams. Call this the “Perfect Storm” for MASS Flooding.
It’s a total disaster. My hometown is an island right now. No way in or out for the last two days. It hasn’t made the national news because it’s Nebraska, which of course isn’t important enough.
A lot of melted snow, frozen ground and a rain storm on top of it.
Could be the result of extensive melting snow and ice up river.
Yes. Really bad here. Highway 50 by me in Louisville, NE is the only usable north/south route over the Platte in this area.
My fiancee’s mother is staying with us as her town of Waterloo is cut off by flooding from the Elkhorn river. The roads were closed before she got off work. Her husband and granddaughter are trapped in town. Still safe and dry though.
My Brother’s place by the river in Plattsmouth is 1 of 3 houses that are still dry out of approx. 100 homes in his area.
There’s been numerous levee breaks, dam failures, bridges and roads taken out. It’s just a mess here!
I’ve posted photos of the flooding here.....it’s devastating destruction!
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3734974/posts
What’s going on down there?
I think you are the only one asking the right question.
Flooding has always been a problem on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Things did get better with the upper river damming, and the Corps of Engineers has a difficult job controlling what they can which is the outflow from the dams. What they don’t control is inflow to the reservoirs.In other words the reservoirs fill up so, to avoid flooding behind the dams, water is released and flows down to NE and floods.
Further downstream an issue might be ship or barge navigation which requires a certain amount of water all seasons. Thus complicating the water release issue year round.
It is complicated but a huge public works project that may be more expensive than flooding, would be controlling tributaries inflow to the Rivers upstream, and thereby controlling to some extent the rise of water behind the dams. I’m betting the flooded ground in NE will be dry before there is much of a philosophical discussion on why the continued flooding on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
There are I am sure more issues than mentioned here, if this wasn’t a major flooding issue you might never have heard about it, because there is minor flooding to a greater extent than major.