OS going AWOL thanks to low land flooding (story: Heavy rain, floods still a threat)

The water treatment plant I work at is next to the Missouri River. Constant rain upstream has swollen the river. I may be working some long shifts until the river level drops in a few days. I worked a double shift yesterday. Rain is expected up river of Omaha again all day today.


Heavy rain, floods still a threat

By Sarah Reinecke
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

Updated at 4:30 a.m.

Emergency managers remain on guard throughout eastern Nebraska as more severe weather moves through the area.

Flash flood warnings were issued early Monday for parts of Lancaster, Saunders and Seward Counties. Most of eastern Nebraska and western Iowa were under flash flood watches and severe thunderstorm watches as a line of strong storms swept across the region.

Josh Boustead, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Valley, said Sunday that most areas of Nebraska were expected to get 1 to 2 inches of rain Sunday into Monday. The heaviest amounts were likely to fall in the northeast.

“That's a pretty decent rain,” Boustead said. “With several rivers already in flood stage, that's only going to exacerbate the situation.”

Sunday night downpours caused flash flooding at locations both north and south of Omaha. To the south, a trailer park in Syracuse had to be evacuated, law enforcement officials reported there. Water surged over roads in Lancaster and Cass Counties, and in northeast Nebraska in Boone and Madison Counties, the weather service said.

One storm soaked an area a mile north of Weeping Water, in Cass County, with 3.33 inches of rain, the weather service said.

Sunday night's storms also dropped large hail. Baseball-size hail broke windshields in north Lincoln, said Doug Ahlberg, director of emergency management for Lincoln and Lancaster County. Fifteen police cruisers were damaged near 27th and Holdrege Streets, Ahlberg said.

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over here we are looking at 90`s and rain everyday this week....

keep those pumps working!

Our water table is so high, even the snakes have nowhere to go.

crews are down on the Gulf!



(Stay safe!)

The Mighty Mo is expected to to at flood stage in Omaha tomorrow morning sometime. With luck it won't cause more damage to homes and businesses than it already has.

I'm calling it a night to get some make up sleep.

OS