By Russ Quinn
DTN Staff Reporter
TEKAMAH, NE (DTN) — Quentin Connealy is enjoying the uneventful weather of late winter. The Tekamah, Nebraska, farmer saw the nearby Missouri River flood his fields not once last growing season, but three different times, beginning with the bomb cyclone that hit on March 13, 2019.
?This year, so far, has been a 180-degree change,? Connealy told DTN.
As farmers in the Missouri River valley prepare for the 2020 growing season, those who saw major flooding issues last year prepare for the next crop with the optimism of a new spring. While the threat of flooding still is a possibility, those farming along the ?Muddy Mo? hope the issues of 2019 are behind them.
Three Floods in One Year
A year ago March winter was still stubbornly hanging on with low temperatures, snowfall and frozen soils. When the bomb cyclone hit on March 13, rainfall melted most of the snowfall, causing small streams to flood as they attempted to flow into larger ones.
