Spring flooding could be 'unprecedented' with 200 million Americans at risk

[Eugene]

Source: USA Today

Spring flooding could be 'unprecedented' with 200 million Americans at risk

Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Published 2:19 p.m. ET March 21, 2019 | Updated 9:51 p.m. ET March 21, 2019

Spring flooding has already been disastrous, and it's likely to get worse, federal forecasters announced Thursday. Floods could reach "unprecedented" and "potentially historic" levels.

Almost the entire eastern two-thirds of the nation should see flooding this spring, National Weather Service deputy director Mary Erickson said at a news conference on Thursday. Some 25 states are forecast to see "moderate" to "major" flooding, the weather service said.

The Midwest floods are “a preview of what we expect throughout the rest of the spring,” she said. "The flooding this year could be worse than what we have seen in previous years ... even worse than the historic floods we saw in 1993 and 2011," Erickson added.

The deadly, destructive flooding that began last week from Minnesota to Missouri has killed at least four people, caused more than $1.5 billion in estimated losses and damages and destroyed more than 2,000 homes.

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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/21/weather-spring-flood-forecast-historic-floods-200-million-us/3233517002/

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Related: Spring Outlook: Historic, widespread flooding to continue through May (NOAA)

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Well, FEMA doesn't need to send any help nor money to Iowa per

Rep. Steve King.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142290185

[BigmanPigman]

2. I remember flying from CA to NY in '93

and the view of the flooding from thousands of feet high was really incredible.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Oh, dear lord. That's well over half of everyone.

[MuseRider]

4. Only 50% chance where I live

thank goodness. We have been muddy for months when it was warm enough, hoping for a little dry out time first. I built high thankfully and made it through the last big flood here but my neighbors down the road were not as lucky, flooded the entire little community. Scary stuff.