As part of the Midwest starts flood cleanup, residents downstream brace for what could happen when the waters flow south
By Ted Genoways and Frances Stead Sellers Frances Stead Sellers Senior writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow March 20 at 8:13 PM FREMONT, Neb. — Chris Sewall stood with a push broom in front of an emergency shelter he manages for at-risk children, sending water sloshing down the front steps Wednesday afternoon. It had been nearly a week since he had to evacuate 10 teenagers from this facility, and the floodwaters had finally receded.
Mud covers a street in Hamburg, Iowa. Communities continued to issue new disaster declarations, putting three-quarters of Nebraska’s counties under states of emergency. Officials in Iowa, Wisconsin and Mississippi have done the same, under threat from the historic flooding around the Platte and Missouri rivers.
In coming weeks, Waters expects, snow melt will add to the torrents still overtopping levees and inundating farmland, homes and businesses as they churn toward the Gulf of Mexico. Small towns used the resources they had to dig out from under the flood’s aftermath. In Verdigre, Neb. — population 575 — a week had passed since ice-cold waters filled basements and seeped into businesses. People were at work Wednesday tearing out damaged interiors, vacuuming up the damp and smelly detritus and drying whatever belongings seemed salvageable.
“We had all the paperwork filled out and was one day away from sticking a sign in the yard,” Richey said.
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