Among Midlands weather records, Lincoln on the verge of wettest May in 129 years of record-keeping

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DAVID HENDEE/THE WORLD-HERALD
A vehicle plows through water at Second and D Streets Thursday evening as people in the South Bottoms neighborhood considering evacuating after torrential rains Wednesday night caused flooding in southeast Nebraska.


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POSTED: TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2015 1:00 AM
By Nancy Gaarder / World-Herald staff writer

Search crews in Lincoln and North Platte are looking for people swept away by high water as a month of record rains and heavy snows enters its third week.

Two teens are missing after they drove into floodwaters on a washed-out road near North Platte on Monday night.

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said friends reported seeing 17-year-old Alexis Wiezorek speeding around barriers and into the swollen South Platte River about 11:30 p.m. The barriers had been erected because the road was washed out in spots. Riding with Wiezorek was 18-year-old Noah Ramos.

Neither the vehicle nor the teens had been located this morning, despite a search on the ground and from the air.

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