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Omaha Steve

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Sat Jun 21, 2014, 09:49 PM Jun 2014

Storm swells rivers, Omaha metro area remains under flood warning (1 dead more rain on the way)


OP from earlier today has a photo of the bridge below as it was at about 10AM: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025131632



http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/storm-swells-rivers-omaha-metro-area-remains-under-flood-warning/article_08210aae-ab22-57ab-96dc-f02b2f1ce600.html

Photo gallery: Heavy rain pounds Omaha area: http://odc.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=5002&p=5353



JAMES R. BURNETT/THE WORLD-HERALD
Debris is left along the 36th Street bridge that crosses the Big Papillion Creek after a night of heavy rain. Overnight Friday, Papillion received 7.72 inches of rain and Millard Airport recorded 6.83 inches. “A six-inch rain is at least a once-in-a-hundred-years type of thing,” said Scott Dergan, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.


POSTED: SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2014 12:30 AM
By Paige Yowell / World-Herald staff writer

A torrential storm that flooded Omaha-area streets left one Bellevue man dead, the Papillion Creek system nearly running over its banks and roads littered with tree branches, debris and mud.

Meanwhile, the Omaha metro area remained in a flood warning as the Missouri River continued to rise.

By midday Saturday, the river had reached 27.2 feet at Omaha. The National Weather Service predicted the river would rise above flood stage, 29 feet, by this morning, with lowland flooding in parks along the Missouri such as NP Dodge Park in northern Omaha and Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park in Council Bluffs.

Elsewhere along the river, high water prompted Richardson County to call for a voluntary evacuation of areas in and around Rulo.

FULL story video and more at link.

The death happened less than a mile from our house. We drive over the bridge one block North of here every day. It is a much larger creek there.



CHRIS MACHIAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
David M. Farr, 29, was swept away by floodwaters Friday night after his car got stuck in this drainage ditch near Fairfax Road just south of Harvell Drive in Bellevue. The culvert takes water downstream toward the Big Papillion Creek.


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Storm swells rivers, Omaha metro area remains under flood warning (1 dead more rain on the way) (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jun 2014 OP
What a change two weeks makes liberal N proud Jun 2014 #1
You and Martha stay safe ok nadinbrzezinski Jun 2014 #2

liberal N proud

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1. What a change two weeks makes
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 10:04 PM
Jun 2014

I was in NW Missouri two weeks ago and everything was dry.

Stay safe! And remember, turn around, don't drown.

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