NOAA’s US Spring Outlook: Nearly 2/3 of the lower 48 US states face an elevated risk for flooding through May, with the potential for major or moderate flooding in 25 states.
. And with climate change an ongoing threat, extreme weather events like this will likely be increasingly common in the future.Whitney Curtis / Whitney Curtis/for NBC News
Because of rain, changing temperatures and the speed at which the water arrived, many of the gravel roads farmers use here became impassable in the days leading up to the sudden deluge. Most who operate here were unable to save the soybean and corn bushels they’d kept in grain silos. With commodity prices currently at a record low due to a crop surplus and, some farmers had hoped that storing the crops until prices rose would earn them a few more cents per bushel.
Few can afford those kinds of losses in good years, but the waters have made an already grim situation increasingly dire. The flooding will affect farmers here for years. The Corps maintained that while there was risk of increased flooding by the change to its priorities around the Missouri River, it did not directly intend to cause flooding on their land and should not be held liable.
“I don’t think he wants to give up, but it’s going to be tough,” Ettleman said, wiping his eyes. “Young family and all that — we just don’t know.”U.S. military knew the flood risks at Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base, but didn't act in time They plan to make a lot of noise in Congress about their continued challenges because they feel they have no choice.
Multiple Hamburg residents openly questioned whether the town could survive this flood and said that they’d lost hope after they were unable to save an addition on their levee six years ago that kept floodwaters at bay in 2011. That part of the levee was dismantled by order of the Corps because it did not meet federal regulations and the town could not afford the $5.5 million price tag to get it there.
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