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Record-High Floods in Nebraska Breach Levees and Isolate Towns

By Mihir Zaveri
March 16, 2019

Several areas in the Midwest experienced record flooding this past week, with high water on Saturday causing more levee breaches on the Missouri River, prompting widespread evacuations and isolating neighborhoods and towns.

Record-high river levels were reported in at least 38 locations in the Midwest, particularly in Nebraska and Iowa, said Jonathan Erdman, a senior meteorologist with weather.com. Heavy flooding was also reported in Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota, and the National Weather Service said it would continue past the weekend.

Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/us/nebraska-flooding.html



Senator Sasse's twitter has a lot of pictures on what is going on in Nebraska.

I think he's been helping out in the clean up, a lot of fearsome looking sites.

https://twitter.com/BenSasse?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor