The Flood of 2019

[Ulty]

Yesterday, I kept seeing one unbelievable video after another shared by Facebook friends in central and northern Nebraska. Dams broken, chunks of highway disintegrated, trucks and buildings being swept away, and an entire two lane bridge floating down a raging river after the floods had dislodged it from the road. Unreal stuff. 

[Mavric]

 

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[BigRedBuster]

15 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

 

That 200 miles of roads, I believe, is an understatement.  They might be just talking about paved roads.  I live on 8 miles of gravel roads to get home.  I'm struggled to get to find a road that wasn't torn up to get to work this morning.  They started being OK, but then we got about another inch of rain last night.

 

Our county alone is going to be spending all summer doing nothing be trying to get the gravel roads back to normal.

 

My wife works for a large road construction company.  They have been told to put all construction projects they were planning on doing on hold and prepare to work on storm damaged roads instead.

[Cdog923]

My inlaws live in Waterloo, and they're just now today able to get out of town via a couple backroads. 

 

I think this is far, far worse than anyone ever anticipated it being. 

[BigRedBuster]

On 3/16/2019 at 3:52 PM, Mavric said:

 

 

 

BTW....what intersection is this?  Is it where I29 meats I680?

[GSG]

30 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

 

BTW....what intersection is this?  Is it where I29 meats I680?

 

One of the Tweets in response to the pic said its Crescent Exchange off 29, if that helps

[BigRedBuster]

12 minutes ago, GSG said:

 

One of the Tweets in response to the pic said its Crescent Exchange off 29, if that helps

So...yep.

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[greenmonkey51]

A good half of the snow in the Dakotas is in the Red River watershed. That snow is not the major threat for flooding.