A show on Iowa PBS tonight at 9:00 is
And the Floods Came
“The impact of the "bomb cyclone" that swept across the Great Plains in March 2019 is chronicled.”
You can watch it live online:
www.iowapbs.org
I think this is the program produced by Nebraska PBS — where the “bomb cyclone” occurred — which aired originally in September 2019. This is available for viewing anytime at the Nebraska PBS website:
NET News shares the story of the historic 2019 Nebraska Floods.
video.austinpbs.org
That storm in Iowa and Nebraska was about March 20, 2019. Since the ground was frozen and had been for months (all winter I think), the water didn’t soak in at all. It was cold.
I recall pictures of the ice jam in the Des Moines River in Southeast Iowa with chunks the size of pickup trucks. In Nebraska, I recall pictures of chunks the size of semis in pastures along with a lot of other debris, after the water had gone through.
It might have been that year, I don’t recall for sure, but the Missouri River is so long you can have droughts on one part, and at the same time, an historic flood in another. I think it was dry up river; and had they known this was going to occur, the Army Corps of Engineers would not have had as much water stored in the reservoirs in South Dakota north.
www.osgov.com
