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3-27-19

An “unprecedented” flood season lies ahead this spring, according to NOAA.

 

 

Homes are surrounded by floodwater on March 20, in Hamburg, Iowa, following a massive storm. NOAA forecast this week that flooding in the central US is going to get worse through May.
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Rivers continue to rise in several Midwestern states as snow from the “bomb cyclone” melts and new rainstorms bring more precipitation on an already soaked region.

 

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Major river flooding will continue across parts of the Mississippi and Missouri River Basins. The combination of snow melt and additional rainfall will lead to rising rivers in some locations this week. For the latest river flood forecasts visit: https://water.weather.gov/ahps/ 

 
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The flooding, which began over a week ago, has killed at least three people and caused at least $3 billion in damages so far. Rising water levels have breached levees along the Missouri River and forced several towns to evacuate. In southern Minnesota, flood impacts spread over the weekend, according to MPR News.

Some residents of South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation were stranded for two weeks as already poor roads were blocked by floodwaters. “This is going to have a devastating effect on us, I feel,” Oglala Sioux tribe President Julian Bear Runner told Greenwire. “The tribe is utilizing any and all of its resources to try to help the communities that have been impacted.”

In Nebraska alone, the flooding has already caused more than $1 billion in damages, with more than 2,000 homes and 340 businesses lost.

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None of this is supposed to be under water.

 

Here's what the Missouri River looks like just across from Nebraska City into Iowa. If you ever drive to Kansas City, you're probably familiar with this interchange of I-29 and Highway 2. The Missouri looks like an ocean.

 
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On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s spring outlook reported that the situation for the central US is soon going to get much, much worse.

“The extensive flooding we’ve seen in the past two weeks will continue through May and become more dire and may be exacerbated in the coming weeks as the water flows downstream,” said Ed Clark, director of NOAA’s National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in a statement. “This is shaping up to be a potentially unprecedented flood season, with more than 200 million people at risk for flooding in their communities.”

Historic floods are in store for much of the United States through May, according to NOAA.
Historic floods are in store for much of the United States through May, according to NOAA.
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Waterways including the Mississippi River and the Red River

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https://www.vox.com/2019/3/22/18277244/nebraska-flood-2019

 

 

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