Water Water Everywhere

The flooding along the Missouri is worse than it’s been in many years. Water is being released from Lake McConaughy. There seems to be too much water everywhere. Nebraskans have experienced flooding in the past, of course, and some of them were photographed. This photograph of two houses in Valley shows flood waters from the Platte and Elkhorn Rivers that merged in March of 1912 and inundated the town. Flood waters up to four-feet deep left homes full of mud and silthttp://goo.gl/NDSmC More photographs of the flood in Valley and other floods in Nebraska can be viewed by following this link http://goo.gl/VZbrr Visit Nebraska Memories to search for or browse through many more historical images digitized from photographs, negatives, postcards, maps, lantern slides, books and other materials. Nebraska Memories is a cooperative project to digitize Nebraska-related historical and cultural heritage materials and make them available to researchers of all ages via the Internet. Nebraska Memories is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/nebraskamemories/ for more information, or contact Beth Goble, Government Information Services Director, or Devra Dragos, Technology & Access Services Director.