At least three people are confirmed to have lost their lives so far amid record-setting floods affecting parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and other nearby states. Thousands of people have been asked to evacuate, and many have been away from their homes for days in hard-hit Nebraska, following last week’s “bomb cyclone” weather system that dropped huge amounts of precipitation—adding to existing troubles from heavy snowmelt and ice-choked rivers. Dams and levees were overwhelmed, roads have been washed away, and some neighborhoods, farms, and military bases now sit in water up to eight feet deep. Some of the rivers in eastern Nebraska are beginning to recede, and others are expected to crest within 24 hours. Areas downstream, along the Mississippi River Valley, are preparing for likely flooding.
In Photos: Deadly Floods Sweep the Midwest
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Gabe Schmidt, the owner of Liquid Trucking (top right), travels by airboat with Glenn Wyles (top left), Mitch Snyder (bottom left), and Juan Jacobo (bottom right), as they survey damage from the floodwaters of the Platte River, in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, on March 17, 2019. #
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