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What is meant by our flood? Just in the community? Or, affecting your family?
Community and my family both. My brother, sister, uncle and I all got it. This 2010 flood was one of the worst ever recorded (actually it was the worst for some towns). It affected about 200 miles of the river, at least.
Cities/towns affected were Ewing, Neligh, Norfolk, Pilger, Oakland, West Point, Beemer, Snyder, Scribner, Hooper, Winslow, Nickerson, Arlington, and Waterloo. Then, after the Elkhorn River dumps into the Platte River and then into the Missouri River, they got flooded down their way, too.
No one in my family lost anything of any value. We had advanced warning and moved all of our stuff out and to higher ground before the really deep stuff came.
I have a house on top of the bluff by the river. Many people broght their things up to my place for safe keeping during the flood. The water has mostly receded now, and we are all working to clean up the damages. Mostly that sticky, stinky river mud.
I got trapped behind the flood waters one day. I tried to make it out with my ATV four-wheeler, but it was too deep and it ended up floating on me!
We turned around and went back to the cabins and drank beer, grilled steaks and took pictures and laughed. There wasn't much else we could do.
Some folks here were not as lucky. They had four to six feet of water in their homes/cabins. Obviously, the really bad after-effect is the mosquitos. They are horrible now. If you are familiar with the movie, The African Queen, there is a scene in there that shows how bad the skeeters are here, now, and they are just gettig started. Look for my recipe for homemade insect repellent in one of the other forums here (can't remember where it is - chit chat club I think). It WORKS!
RADAR