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Devastating flooding in Midwest after bomb cyclone: ‘This could last for quite some time’

By Diana Stancy Correll
Published March 16, 2019 11:06pm ET
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Devastating flooding in Midwest after bomb cyclone: ‘This could last for quite some time’
Tom Wilke, left, his son Chad, center, and Nick Kenny, launch a boat into the swollen waters of the North Fork of the Elkhorn River, to check on Wilke's flooded property, in Norfolk, Neb., Friday, March 15, 2019. Heavy rain falling atop deeply frozen ground has prompted evacuations along swollen rivers in Wisconsin, Nebraska and other Midwestern states. Thousands of people have been urged to evacuate along eastern Nebraska rivers as a massive late-winter storm has pushed streams and rivers out of their banks throughout the Midwest. | (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts said it may take a while for Nebraska to recover from the so-called “bomb cyclone” that ravaged the Midwest with rain and snow this week.

“As snow and rain pass, many communities have experienced devastating flooding. This could last for quite some time,” Ricketts said Friday.

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