Here are pictures from my farm after the blizzard. Incredible. If it was open before, it is still open after the blizzard. Lots of bare road surfaces. But if it was drifted before, oh boy, is it ever drifted. Most of the area behind the outbuildings is 6-8 feet deep, with crests higher than that.
http://imgur.com/gallery/zChc4R7
That is absolutely bonkers. I wonder how bad the Mississippi flooding could get this spring. The river is already flooding in many locations.
A lot is dependent on the spring weather. The western snowpack is quite deep, which will result in significant spring runoff. As I understand it, the eastern river system is already high, so there is the potential for heavy flooding. However, a slow melting spring could alleviate these conditions. We will just have to wait and see, but if I lived there, I would prepare early.
The mid-west is flooding - big-time
https://www.wunderground.com/news/safety/floods/news/2019-03-15-record-flooding-nebraska-iowa-south-dakota-bomb-cyclone-snowmeltRecord Flooding in Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota Follows Snowmelt, Bomb Cyclone; Rivers Still Rising Into Next WeekRiver level records have been smashed in four states in the Plains and Midwest, and river flooding will continue for several more days after rapid snowmelt and heavy rain from the bomb cyclone swamped the nation's heartland.
As of Friday, 24 locations have topped new record river levels, mainly in the Missouri Valley from southeastern South Dakota into Nebraska and western Iowa, but also in parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
While smaller creeks, streams and rivers have crested or soon will, larger main stem rivers might continue to rise and remain in flood for days from the central Plains to the Mississippi Valley, Ohio Valley and Great Lakes as this volume of water slowly moves downstream.
There were over 300 river gauges above flood stage in the Mississippi River and Missouri River watersheds.
The good news is mainly dry weather is expected in the nation's heartland for the next several days. However, markedly warmer weather is also expected, which will accelerate melting of lingering snow cover from the northern Plains into the northern Great Lakes. As a result, water from melting snow will continue to pour into smaller tributaries, then larger mainstem rivers, likely keeping those mainstem rivers relatively high over the next few weeks.