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Missouri Fears More Catastrophic Flooding Next springhttps://www.kctv5.com/news/local_news/missouri-fears-of-more-catastrophic-flooding-next-spring/article_1f664264-2897-11ea-ab35-c3e188eb1818.htmlSince March, when a "bomb cyclone" hit the upper plains and a 92-year-old dam broke in north-central Nebraska, people living in the Missouri River flood plain have struggled to clean up because so
much of the area is still underwater.
In the corner where Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa meet, roads are underwater, bridges are out and left in rubble, and ditches and farmland are covered in feet of mud and silt. In Holt County alone, 15,000 acres out of 95,000 total farm land acres are still underwater, Bullock told KCUR-FM.
And there are fears of more flooding next spring.
Kevin Low, a National Weather Service hydrologist with the Missouri Basin River Forecast Center, said the outlook is "grim."Saturated ground, which will presumably freeze this winter, combined with high-running rivers, could exacerbate the problem, he said. Rivers were at flood stage until mid-December and that also increases the chance of ice jams, he said.
"I don't know that I've seen a worse set-up for flooding potential," ... I would say if we even have a normal precipitation spring we are going to be in trouble," Low said.
... "Especially little counties like us, we don't have the funds to put things back like they need to be," Bullock said. "If we don't get FEMA money, to help us put it back, we're in bad trouble."
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Inquiry Ordered Into Insufficient Insurance for Flood-Hit Homeshttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/27/inquiry-ordered-into-insufficient-insurance-for-flood-hit-homes... Theresa Villiers, the UK environment secretary, said she was commissioning an inquiry into why some flooded communities were unable to get sufficient insurance, despite an agreement between insurers and the government in 2015 that was supposed to mean everyone would have access to affordable coverage.
Boris Johnson has been criticised for failing to visit any of the areas affected in the latest round of flooding. The prime minister spent Christmas in Downing Street with his partner, Carrie Symonds, and the pair are expected to fly to the exclusive private Caribbean island of Mustique to see in the new year.
Areas of southern England and north Lincolnshire are still at risk of groundwater flooding, with 88 warnings still in place and 100 properties having flooded since last Thursday.
Before that, 4,200 homes in South Yorkshire and surrounding counties were flooded during the election campaign in November.
