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Initial public damage, cost estimate from blizzard, flooding: $553,000,000

The Nebraska Emergency Management Agency says the initial estimate of public costs, including damage to public property from last week's blizzard and storm-associated flooding, is more than half a billion dollars. According to the NEMA website, damage public property is estimated at $553,100,736....

Initial public damage, cost estimate from blizzard, flooding: $553,000,000

FEMA, Vice President Coming to Flood Ravaged State

Lincoln, Neb. – “We have not had a disaster that has been this widespread in the state, I don’t think, ever,” Governor Pete Ricketts said yesterday while visiting Wood River. “We’ve had disasters where we’ve had a greater loss of life. But as far as how many places have been touched b...

Free Legal Assistance Available Through Legal Aid’s Disaster Relief Project

Extreme flooding has devastated parts of Nebraska as heavy rains have mixed with melting snow. Multitudes of people have been ordered to evacuate their home and town. A third of the residents in Norfolk, a hospital and nursing home in Genoa, and residents along the Platte River from Schuyler to Ashl...

Scotts Bluff Co. Detention Center approved to house State inmates

The Scotts Bluff County Detention Center has been approved to temporarily house state inmates nearing the end of their prison terms. Jail Director Joe Gaul says the facility has been given the green light to house between 50 and 75 state inmates, with the first nine expected to arrive next week o...

Scotts Bluff Co. Board thanks Roads, other Departments for hard work

Scotts Bluff County Board chairman Ken Meyer says he can't thank roads crews and staff in other departments enough for their hard work during and after last week's blizzard. Road crews this week were able to get access open on nearly every county road, first fighting abandoned vehicles on paved...