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Thanks for posting the photos. I actually have been hearing a lot about it on NPR the last couple of days, so they at least have been covering it, but I had no idea of the magnitude.
 
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I hunt in SD each year and spend a couple of days driving through many of these NE towns. I feel so sorry for these hard working people.
 
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What a tragedy. Our local stations have been covering this pretty good. Many of those pics I had seen watching the coverage.



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Wow - looks like a tough road to recovery there. I am one of those that had no idea things were that bad in NE.

We have some friends in Valparaiso, NE and called to see how they’re doing. “Fine”, they said.

The wife mentioned that media coverage of the flooding has been kind of sparse, and that a lot of folks don’t know how bad it’s been.

Our friend replied “That’s fine. In fact, I think I like it that way.”


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And all that water will be coming to us in Baton Rouge. And the Mississippi it over full now


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Yeah. They are getting hit hard south and west of me. Here in the extreme NE corner of NE my city has been pretty lucky so far.

We got slammed hard in the flood of 2011.

Those people ( volunteers, police, fire, rescue,etc...) are working their butts off. God bless them. Almost forgot the National Guard troops that have been ferrying food and supplies and the chopper pilots doing amazing rescues!!

On another note the animal rescues have been amazing. Floating boats up to house windows and getting cats and dogs out along with horses and cattle and I am sure hogs. Out west they had to un-bury cattle and calves that looked like they got caught under an avalanche. Saw some pics of a Trooper that freed a calf that was frozen to the ground and snow.
 
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Called Cylinder and Slide on Thursday to order some springs for a well used Hi Power that just followed me home. Spoke with a nice woman who mentioned that there had been some flooding. Now I see Fremont is the “island” that’s been mentioned. Wishing them all well.
 
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Heard back from my Cousin. There is some flooding of his farm and he's stuck at home for a few days (road closures). His house is a couple of feet above ground so may be OK.

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Thanks Tanner, both links are great


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http://ncn21.com/state-news/no...-it-did-during-wwii/

And...

https://www.omaha.com/weather/...99-e4c684a97ee8.html

Nebraska is good people. Help as you can.

Thanks for these links. The more I learn about Nebraska, the more I like it.


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until a lot of money is spent on a lot of dredging , it's gonna get worse .
70 years of silt in the tributaries does a lot to
spread out the water.

they had many news stories on this as far back as the 60's.

levee's are not the answer, dams are not the answer.

8 mill per year by NE, IA,and IL would have gone a long way twords fixing this problem in the upper mississippi valley





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Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts started off his press conference Wednesday morning by acknowledging a sobering fact.

"This is the most widespread natural disaster we've ever had in our state," he said from the podium in his hearing room at the state capitol.

As of Wednesday morning, 85 cities, 77 counties, and four tribal areas in Nebraska had emergency declarations. The declarations cover more than 80 percent of the state.



Overview of Flooding by Nebraska Governor Ricketts


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This video just made my morning. Five young girls jumping, waving, and asking the truck drives to blow their air horns as load after load of hay and fencing materials is brought to Nebraska. The sign on the back of the hay loads reads:
"Pay it forward. Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas to Nebraska"



Here are loads from Wisconsin:



I've seen pictures of loads coming from Iowa, Montana, and Missouri, and a large convoy from Ohio! One farmer in Ohio who donated hay said his dad told him, "A person doesn't have to live next to you to be your neighbor."

Safe to say that hay and fencing materials have been, or are being sent to Nebraska from all over the country.

Rural America Strong!

One more. Justin Timberlake was in Omaha just a few days ago.



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Being from Nebraska, this put a lump in my throat.
 
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That's awesome! God bless this country. Way to go 'fly over states' and the people that live there.

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There's a farmer just north of me that started collecting items to fill his enclosed trailer for the families in Nebraska. So much came in that a local distributor donated a semi trailer, driver, and fuel. I didn't hear the total in the caravan, but the farmer thought they'd have about a dozen various sized trucks/trailers heading out Wednesday night.
 
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I live in Norfolk, we got spared by our flood control system. It used to flood every year here and they installed the system in the 1965. There are people I work with that walk 2 miles to get to the neighbors. Then the neighbors let them borrow vehicles to get to work.

As far as help with cleanup or a place to stay all you do is say the word and multiple people step up to help.
 
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I live in Norfolk, we got spared by our flood control system. It used to flood every year here and they installed the system in the 1965. There are people I work with that walk 2 miles to get to the neighbors. Then the neighbors let them borrow vehicles to get to work.

As far as help with cleanup or a place to stay all you do is say the word and multiple people step up to help.


Glad you are OK neighbor. I hear that in areas not to far from you some people and property got hammered.
 
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If you have a freezer, it would probably be a good idea to keep watching for bargains—especially in beef, maybe pork as well.

“As many as a million calves lost in Nebraska”— beef prices to escalate dramatically in the coming months.

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