has details. a swollen missouri river reaching a levy, with rapid ice waters approaching homes, the order for the evacuation. i ve been with the district since 93 and we ve never had water like this. seems like we get a 100 year flood a few years anymore. watson missouri was inundated. i don t know if watson is going to be a town anymore for there is like, four houses that happen to be higher than the rest of the town. everybody else has got water. in addition to emergency food operations, attempting to mitigate damage to livestock. ch 47 chinook helicopters were loaded up with hay which airdropped with cattle stranded by flood waters grain and corn farmer storing to use as feed got wet, expanded, and burst the bands in which they were stored. cattle losses are estimated at $400 million. road, levees, and other
is a time when cattle can survive much better. we are hoping this will not be too much. also fortunately, most of the bigger parts of the snowfall have been up in the black hills where there s not as many cattle. most of the snowfall would have been down the plains area where the cattle are on the 6-10 inch side. we are waiting to hear what the reports are for cattle losses. keep us posted on that. we ve been talking about tornados tropical storm ana, blizzard conditions all this one weekend across the u.s. what do you make of what we are seeing? is this normal to some degree or random to some degree? well the situation with the tropical system this is a bit early for tropical systems to occur. obviously in south dakota we don t worry about tropical systems too much. the concept of having snowfall and severe weather around at the same time is really not that uncommon for us up here.