Nebraska dealing with deadly and record-breaking river flooding due to rapid snow melt, ice jams and last week's rainfall. So far, 300 people have been rescued. @GioBenitez reports from Nebraska. https://t.co/ylV4GmvbTY pic.twitter.com/HBfMad8xZr
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Via Weather Channel:
Rivers have reached historic levels in 41 locations across the Midwest, creating devastating flooding that has killed at least three people, forced countless evacuations, breached dams and levees, damaged hundreds of homes and flooded a military base.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says 200 miles of levees have been topped or breached in Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas, according to the Associated Press.
The death toll from the flooding has risen to three. Two people from Columbus, Nebraska, died last week: a woman trapped in her home by floodwaters and a farmer attempting a rescue in high water, according to the Platte County Sheriff’s Office. In addition, a Norfolk, Nebraska, man died and two others were injured when they drove around a flood barrier in Fremont County, Iowa, on Friday and were swept away, according to the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office.
Two other men are missing and presumed dead in Nebraska.
The deaths add weight to the grim statistics in the ongoing flood disaster. On Sunday, the Sarpy County Nebraska Sheriff’s office said that at least 500 homes were ruined by floodwaters that overtopped two levees in the county.
The total number of homes and businesses lost in the disaster is likely much greater.
Shortly after noon Monday CDT, Atchison County Emergency Management urged residents of Watson, Missouri, to evacuate when the Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that water was washing over the Nishnabotna River and and High Creek levees. The county also said levees on the Missouri River west of Watson had two breaches.