flooding

we're having lots of flooding goin here in NE, one dam has broke up north and is flowing into another one that is already over flowing...it's all gotta drain down hill! anyways...one town about 30 miles from me is completely surrounded by water, all highways closed or washed out, but they have told the residents they need to evacuate! how they sposed to do that? with that dam I mentioned above, it has already wiped out a 1/2 of one town already. one dam is releasing 90,000 cubic ft of water per second and it's not fast enough. our town has closed the flood gates...thems are pretty cool! they are hydralic and raise up outta the ground to seal off the water. some fire/rescue personel were on boats trying to go in to evacuate some folks, and both boats capsisized, the personel were dumped into the water, no way to save them at the time, they did find something to grab onto, the the National Guard dispatched 2 black hawk helicopters and they were able to save them, transported them to a waiting squad on higher ground, being treated for hypothermia, they were in the water about 40-50 minutes. they'll be o-k! air boats weren't doing any good, they kept flipping in the wind. they found a hover craft and the wind was tossing it around too, but worked a little better than any other type boats. and ya'll complain about a little snow I share with ya!

Holy cow John, that puts it in perspective. It's going to take a while to dry things out, plus how much snow is left to melt yet?

truckerfarmer wrote: Remember all that 'pretty' you sent us this winter? We're sending it back!

My brother up on the border was lucky and the high water and ice didn't take out the bridge that divides the farm...still a lot of work to get things back to normal. The dam that let loose at Spencer is 30 miles from where I grew up, it is terrible the devastation that is going on downstream from there.

towns of Valley and Fremont are isolated by the water, both are islands. dpower has a mess up there where he works, hope he stays safe. prayers for all affected by the water everywhere. I hear some places the water is 11 ft above flood stage, that's sum serious water spreading out everywhere.

we been talk'in about all these bridges washing out around here. all the old bridges that the edjamacated idiots say are to old, outdated, and unsafe...are still standing, and the roads on each side have washed out. most the new bridges that replaced them old outdated bridges have all failed. Fremont and valley are still islands, all roadways are closed into the towns. they are flying in water,food,clothing,ect to the Fremont airport, so far it's above water.

Hate to see it happen to anyone but Shameless you sent it to everyone and now you are getting it back in a different form

This winter snowmobiles were used to rescue stranded driver's during the big storm.
 We had a local group of snowmobilers that rescued several people north of town.

 If the water wasn't so cold, jet skis would be better equiped to help stranded people
 than a boat in many situations.
 Still anyone going in to rescue people from high water is risking their own life.
They have all my respect.

yep..Chaz...maybe I better stay home from Hutch this year! WHEW! hey Wide...one year the local cops asked me if I could deliver some emergency meds to a lady in town during a blizzard? they couldn't gits up the hill to her house. I picked up the meds from them and delivered them to the lady...found out that the emergency meds were birth control pills! PffffT! and she was a troll!

Maybe they WERE emergency meds.......you say she was a troll,,,,,,,,,,,,well, THAT is an emergency!!  We don't need no more of them kinda peoples....but where did she gits the sperm from??  Must be some real drunks in the area?  Whew.....

radio and tv peeps are talking water levels at or near the 90's flooding here locally

Any port in a storm?

All I hear on the tube is how the Dems are all pizzed because of Trump getting a clean slate, so I guess nobody in Congress cares about middle America again,,,,,

SO,,,,,,,,how's the flooding down and over,,,,there?

We're above flood stage here today for the first time.  We've been close the last week or so, but the cooler nights (below freezing) have helped slow down the extra water coming down.  But now today and tomorrow we're supposed to get into the 60's (haven't been there since Oct last year) and this will bring a bunch of water down.  LOOK OUT Dave, you're gonna be getting it down there now.....