´An utter disaster´: Ag losses from Nebraska flooding could top $1 billion
Omaha World-Herald,
by
Marjie Ducey
Original Article
Posted By: rosefenn,
3/19/2019 7:36:28 PM
One day, Anthony Ruzicka says, he had everything. The next, the Spencer Dam broke and a wall of water and ice decimated his 2,000-acre property along the Niobrara River. And the five-generation family of cattle ranchers had nothing. “It’s just an utter disaster,’’ said Ruzicka, who lives there with his parents, Willard and Denise. “I would call it hell.’’
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 3/19/2019 7:56:13 PM (No. 6534)
They still have the land, don´t they? They´re still alive. They have a lot.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 3/19/2019 7:58:01 PM (No. 6532)
I drive from KC to Omaha area to shoot rifle matches and visit friends with some regularity. That I-29 corridor runs along side the Missouri River for a long way, and has flooded out the interstate several times in the last decade or so.
The smart folks build in the higher ground, to the east side of I-29 on the east side of the river, and on the steeper bluffs on the west side. Lots and lots of farm land along there, but very few houses west of the interstate, because they know it WILL flood with some regularity.
Not a good thing, of course, but it is certainly not very unusual. It is called "bottom land" for a reason. It is in the river bottom, which floods regularly, and has very rich soil because of it.
I´ll bet that Iowa and Nebraska will be OK, once the snow melts is through.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bad-hair 3/19/2019 7:58:03 PM (No. 6529)
K Subscription required apparently. Try bugmenot.com if you really want to read this.
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LimeGreen3 3/19/2019 8:31:44 PM (No. 6527)
Seems like there are more and more articles posted that require a subscription.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Janylou 3/19/2019 9:41:43 PM (No. 6531)
Farming and ranching are a great risk. Most small farmers can´t make it just farming. Most have other jobs as well. My heart goes out to these farmers and ranchers. Again, this disaster shows the mamouth failure of big government. Obama blew a trillion dollars which was supposed to go improving infrastrucure. Very little of it actually did. Now, this bloated government wants more money for the same problem. I say, block grant the money to states and keep the fed out of it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 3/19/2019 11:05:12 PM (No. 6533)
At least this flooding didn´t happen in, say, August, right before harvest. They have about 2 months before planting, I bet they can still have a good year.
I don´t know about the livestock losses, but insurance should cover that.
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Maybe if the money spend coddling illegal aliens was spent on infrastructure, wouldn´t have this problem.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 3/20/2019 12:01:30 PM (No. 6528)
I have been in contact with a friend who lives just south of Omaha. He is on high ground, but things are a real mess.
Roads and bridges are damaged in many areas, will take a while to repair after the waters recede.
The good news is that there is likely to be a shortage of ethanol, so we may be "forced" to drive with sober gas for a while. Our engines will be happier.
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The devastation of what has happened in the last week here in Nebraska defies description.