I spent last week in Windom, MN. It rained/iced/snowed the day before I went up. There was a solid two feet of snow on the ground when I got there. Later in the week, it warmed up and rained a couple of inches, which melted all the snow.
Thursday night, things started getting bad in the upper midwest. The western part of Nebraska was pounded by a blizzard, and the east got a ton of rain. If a road wasn't snowed over, it was washed away. I-29 and I-680 were closed by Omaha. All but two bridges across the Missouri were closed. Same for the Platte. A dam up by O'Niel broke, bridges were washed away, and levees around several towns broke. This is going to take a while to fix.
The drive home was pretty. In NW Iowa, the flood waters were calm and blue in the fields. By the time the water got to the Missouri, it was churning and black.
Southbound (the road I'm on) highway 60 across Iowa was open. Northbound (the submerged road to the left) was not. I had to take some backroads to sneak past the flooding in NE - all the while the radio was awash with fresh reports of road closures and evacuations.
We are safe, sound, and high & dry in Lincoln.
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