Roads and bridges were washed out and rescue operations were in full swing as rivers across a swath of the Midwest rose to record levels.
Seventy-four cities, 65 counties and four tribal areas in Nebraska had declared states of emergency Tuesday as swaths of the Midwest battled rivers swollen by days of heavy rains and spring snowmelt.
About 200 miles of levees were compromised in Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said. Even in places where the water level peaked in those states, the current was fast and the water so high that damage continued to pile up. Thousands of people in the region been driven from their homes by the fast-rising waters.
"This is actually different even than the flood of '52," he said."There's water on this entire basin." Overall, as of late Monday, about 8 million people in 14 states live where a flood warning is in effect, the National Weather Service said.In Nebraska, the National Guard said its members joined with the and Nebraska State Patrol to escort a caravan of semis and fuel tankers packed with food and suppliers from Omaha to Fremont.
Officials and airmen will not be able to get into roughly 60 structures until water then. Only mission-essential personnel are working at the installation, base spokesman Ryan Hansen said
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