Nebraska farmer killed helping with flood rescue efforts *defacto flood thread*

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Posted: 3/15/2019 8:57:14 PM EDT

Getting rough here folks and national news doesn't seem to give a shit .

Working with emergency responders to assist a motorist trapped by floodwaters, Paul Wilke noted, James Wilke drove his tractor over the Shell Creek bridge on Monastery Road, but the bridge collapsed, and James was caught in the flood waters

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https://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/columbus-farmer-killed-attempting-to-help-in-rescue-efforts/article

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:03:10 PM EDT

[#1]

Damn

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:03:51 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/15/2019 9:03:58 PM EDT

[#3]

RIP

Just trying to do the right thing, but sometimes you have to plan a little better.

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:14:30 PM EDT

[#4]

I hate to hear that.

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:18:37 PM EDT

[#5]

Sorry to read this.

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:18:46 PM EDT

[#6]

What a bummer.

Little guy lost a big part of his life.

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:20:15 PM EDT

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Doing what good people do.

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:20:48 PM EDT

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Exactly. RIP good man.

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:24:28 PM EDT

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Very sad. He was trying to help and didn't know his own mortality (Young people tend to assume they will never die, but a person's sense of his or her mortality generally increases year by year, and often increases greatly after a serious accident or illness.) He died a hero.

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:25:04 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/15/2019 9:26:03 PM EDT

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I heard the approaches were washed out.

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:27:19 PM EDT

[#12]

Having dinner in Papillion visiting friends and family. Unfortunately many of them are stuck in their small towns unable to ford the flood waters. Very little coverage of this since it has nothing to do with identity politics.

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:27:49 PM EDT

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That’s awful. The Missouri is suppose to rise another 7ft here.

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:32:28 PM EDT

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It is getting sporting in this neck of the woods.

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:33:31 PM EDT

[#15]

He gave all. RIP Sir.

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:35:43 PM EDT

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Lots of flooding going on. I've been seeing pics and vids. Dams breaking and bridges washing out.

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:38:20 PM EDT

[#17]

Tragic to hear.

Good people help.

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:38:50 PM EDT

[#18]

This is a sad event for sure!

The flooding is unbelievable and the damage it is causing will be felt for a very, very long time!

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:41:32 PM EDT

[#19]

the media hasn't put this up at all...

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:43:22 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/15/2019 9:44:23 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/15/2019 9:45:06 PM EDT

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RIP

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:47:07 PM EDT

[#23]

RIP

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:49:05 PM EDT

[#24]

This is sad news

...

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:51:35 PM EDT

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Having dinner in Papillion visiting friends and family. Unfortunately many of them are stuck in their small towns unable to ford the flood waters. Very little coverage of this since it has nothing to do with identity politics.

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That bad, eh? Haven't seen anything about the severity of this all...

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:53:27 PM EDT

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He was a white midwesterner, so he was the enemy.

(and a farmer to boot)

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:55:45 PM EDT

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Getting rough here folks and national news doesn't seem to give a shit .

Working with emergency responders to assist a motorist trapped by floodwaters, Paul Wilke noted, James Wilke drove his tractor over the Shell Creek bridge on Monastery Road, but the bridge collapsed, and James was caught in the flood waters

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/14294/5c8c2af1d28e7_image_jpg-878902.JPG

https://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/columbus-farmer-killed-attempting-to-help-in-rescue-efforts/article

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The media doesn’t give a shit because NE is fly-over “right wing” country.

Prayers for all involved.

Posted: 3/15/2019 9:56:02 PM EDT

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Helped a co-worker get his stuff out of his house this afternoon. Incredible how fast the water levels change.

Posted: 3/15/2019 10:01:19 PM EDT

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Our Governor talked to Trump today
See Trump tweeted about it but that's been about it .

Posted: 3/15/2019 10:01:30 PM EDT

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Ya’ll stay safe!

Prayers are on the way to all involved...

Posted: 3/15/2019 10:02:36 PM EDT

[#31]

Damn that tragic....so sad! RIP hero

Posted: 3/15/2019 10:04:50 PM EDT

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Better man than most.

Posted: 3/15/2019 10:06:30 PM EDT

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Prayers to the family and to all those fighting flood waters and the guys in the west northwest dealing with huge drifts of snow.

The last thing this state needs right now is a week of really warm weather, hope it stays fairly cool.

Posted: 3/15/2019 10:06:55 PM EDT

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Had to help the in laws evacuate today, after it’s all done I think it will almost permanently kill a lot of small towns. Thousands displaced it’s terrible, but like others have said it fly over country so no gives a shit.

Posted: 3/15/2019 10:13:37 PM EDT

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7 firefighters capsized their boat in a swift water rescue last night. Luckily, an air guard blackhawk was near enough to pull them out. Worse than 2011 i think.

https://twitter.com/omaha_scanner/status/1106355952805203970?s=19

Posted: 3/15/2019 10:15:46 PM EDT

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Posted: 3/15/2019 10:20:27 PM EDT

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Definately earned his place through the gates. RIP sir.

Posted: 3/15/2019 10:22:18 PM EDT

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Sad..

I was in Louisiana last week and all of the waterways and rivers were very high.

It will be real bad up north once the snow melts.

This was the Mississippi by the Nottoway plantation house. I took this from the top
of the levy.

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Posted: 3/15/2019 10:23:17 PM EDT

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Flooding is going to be horrible this year in the Midwest along the Mississippi. They are saying here along the Iowa/Illinois border we may break the flooding record for all time - and definitely be in the top 3 or so, so prepare to keep hearing stories like this over the next 4-6 weeks. The problem is the entire region got snowfalls putting them into the top 5 or higher for record snowfall all time and since it finally has started warming up (at least at day time) above freezing we have gotten a metric shit ton of rain as well. So this is going to be really really bad in these areas. Also the farmers are going to have a hard time with planting.

You all just are not hearing much about it right now because as far as the media is concerned their are are only the 2 coastal areas of the country. But this is going to be a major big freaking deal coming up soon. Mark my words. The middle of the country from North to South are going to be getting biblical flooding.

Posted: 3/15/2019 10:29:45 PM EDT

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Spencer Dam on the Niobrara river in northern Nebraska failed. Washed a house away and a man hasn't been found. The Niobrara River has become uncontrollable as the Elkhorn, Platte, and many others in Nebraska. It is a horrible mess.

Posted: 3/15/2019 10:30:42 PM EDT

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Yeah if it was NYC it'd be national front page news for days.

Posted: 3/15/2019 10:33:13 PM EDT

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RIP.

I-29 is closed north just north of Mound City, MO all the way to Council Bluffs. That’s a whole lotta highway...

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Posted: 3/15/2019 10:34:34 PM EDT

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Yup. Supposed to be just as bad - if not worse - than '93 they were saying on the local news here the other night.

Oh well. The rest of the country can ignore it - until they wonder why their produce and meat prices have gone up so much.

Posted: 3/15/2019 10:39:37 PM EDT

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Yup. Supposed to be just as bad - if not worse - than '93 they were saying on the local news here the other night.

Oh well. The rest of the country can ignore it - until they wonder why their produce and meat prices have gone up so much.

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Judging the by the amount cattle standing on sandbars I can't imagine the amount of dead cattle floating around .

Heard from a couple different people there are shit ton of deer just standing around on dry roads as they have no place to go .

Posted: 3/15/2019 10:47:29 PM EDT

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I-29 is closed north just north of Mound City, MO all the way to Council Bluffs. That’s a whole lotta highway...

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This has changed my commute from 20 minutes to over an hour each way.

I got out of work too late today to fill sand bags but tomorrow I will either be filling them at work or here in town.

Posted: 3/15/2019 10:51:18 PM EDT

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We had a thread a couple days ago about the Wyoming, Colorado and western Nebraska blizzard. This flooding is from the other side of that storm pushing warm air up with rain causing the snow pack to melt in 2 days. We can consider this as being part 2 of the previous blizzard thread.