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Anyone here affected by the flooding in the US?

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I was just reading about horrible flood conditions in some states. One report claimed close to 1 million calves died from flood conditions and pictures showed collapsed grain tanks and grain sitting in water. Unreal horrible circumstances.
 
I live 1/4 mile west of the Mississippi. We are still Ice covered, but expect it to break tomorrowish. There is more water waiting to flow. My home is 50 feet above river level. Jim
 
We live 50 feet from a lake that the Mississippi flows through, and only about 6 feet above it, but I'm not worried. The lake still has over 2 feet of ice on it, our snow is melting very slowly, I'm not expecting a flood. We've been here 10 years, and the lake has never come up over a foot during the spring. There is a small power dam 4 miles downstream that controls the level. Farther downstream on the Mississippi is a different story. And then there is the Red!
 
I'm about 30 to 40 miles from flood areas in SE Nebraska. Much talk on local news about most grain bins and grain is not covered by insurance, for some this is last years total crop waiting for transport which was not available due to snow storms, contracted delivery dates or waiting for more favorable prices. Total disaster for some it may not be recoverable.
 
Nebraska had a category 2 hurricane go over, with a bad blizzard in the west and a bad 2 day rainstorm on the east. The east had a tougher winter than normal with a lot of snow and very deep frost for them.

All the rain and all the snow melt came loose in 48 hours and flowed over the frozen ground. The creeks and ditches and rivers were full of ice and no room to flow water.


Now the west side is melting out, so the water keeps flowing. It affects some of South Dakota and Iowa and on down the Mississippi River.

The snow pack is now melting out of North DAkota and west, and all that water is coming down to add on to the high water levels.

That deal was a disaster bigger than many of the hurricanes hitting the Gulf of Mexico and any hitting the east coast. But, it?s just fly over land, so no one covers it, it?s not news if it doesn?t happen on the east or west coast.

Anyhow whatever, I feel for all those people, they had at least 81 bridges washed out, dams failed, rivers changed course, many miles of county and township roads undercut and destroyed.

Paul
 
Just had a thing flash up on my phone. Appearently one of the local rivers that feeds the Mississippi is ice jammed and to expect flooding. Around here the frost is starting to go and the water is starting to go. I feel bad for those further down River. Seen pictures of roads washed out. Will hace to build entire stretches of road from scratch as the road bed is gone.

Sod Buster
 
Hardly no coverage out here on the west coast of all the damage. Mostly the other stuff I am hearing over and over again and again. Getting tired of it. Stan
 
I have been lucky as I didn't loose anything personally in the flooding here in Nebraska, some of which was less than 2 miles away. That being said tho we had flooding around my area that even the 'old timers' had never seen before. The water covered probably over a mile of the highway I take to work everyday at one point. It also washed out a large stretch of the Union Pacific mainline / transcontinental rail line in the process. I live right between two major rivers so that added to the problems. The water has gone down by now but the roads around here are just horribly tore up and still closed. It takes me 54 miles to get to where it normally is a 7 mile drive to get to work. I have to agree on the news coverage as we are just a flyover state and it didn't make the major news until it got to Omaha. I'm not too upset tho as I could care less about the abundant coasts knowing about our troubles anyway!! We will be ok without them.
 
It?s awful how the media chooses to neglect certainty areas in trouble for whatever reason. Those areas affected need help. Who cares if there?s not a Starbucks or giant retailer under water. That?s part the nations food and those that produce it and manufacture it are in trouble. Thank you for the updates and hopefully people affected are able to recover from their losses.
 
How would getting into the news cycle for 24 hours like most things help anyone anyway? Can you remember what you saw on the news 2 weeks ago? We're bombarded with so many disasters,murders,
plane crashes etc etc these days it numbs us to things.
 

No flooding here where I live, but considering that I-29 is closed from Council Bluffs south to the Missouri border, yes, it does effect me. Considering how much farmland will not produce any crops this year, it effects ALL of us.
 
No flooding around my part of Texas this time. But the fields are so wet you can not get into them. Just as we are drying out it is raining again.
 
Most of our flooding in southwest Nebraska was water trying to get to the rivers. 100 miles away Gibbon and Wood River were flooded bad, was a week before we could get to 30 to come west from the ethanol plant at wood river.

North Platte got a bunch more snow yesterday into today. At least the days are getting long enough and the ground warm enough to start drying out. I'm tired of getting the truck stuck. Reminding me of Pennsylvania with all the mud.
 
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