(KEARNEY HUB) The Kearney Hub reports, "This story was written by former Hub Regional Correspondent Ginger Jensen as part of the Hub’s coverage of the 60th anniversary of the Republican River Flood in 1995. Information sources included: “Alma: Towards the Year 2000,” The Orleans Chronicle, Harlan County Journal, Superior Journal, United Press and NEBRASKAland Magazine.
ALMA — In the middle of a decade of drought, it started raining on May 30, 1935, on the flats of eastern Colorado.
By one account, 15 inches of rain fell in the next two days. The Arikaree River and South Fork of the Republican River poured out of their banks, releasing floodwaters on a 200-mile rampage of death and destruction."
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ALMA — In the middle of a decade of drought, it started raining on May 30, 1935, on the flats of eastern Colorado.
By one account, 15 inches of rain fell in the next two days. The Arikaree River and South Fork of the Republican River poured out of their banks, releasing floodwaters on a 200-mile rampage of death and destruction."
Read the article by clicking the title above.
