(McCOOK DAILY GAZETTE) The McCook Daily Gazette reports, "May 31, 2010, marks the 75th anniversary of the Great Flood on the Republican River. On that date in 1935 rain fell in amounts totaling as much as 24 inches over some places in Eastern Colorado, Western Kansas and Southern Nebraska. Few events have shaped the land and the history of our area as the flood of 1935. The country was in the throes of the Great Depression when the year began. Dust storms raged through the Plains adding to the problems of those already doing without as they attempted to survive along the Republican River. However, in late May the rains returned to the plains. On the night of May 30, 1935, one storm system was over Nebraska, while another was over Southern Colorado. The systems merged over northeast Colorado, between where the Republican River and the Arickaree River meet, just before these streams cross the state line in to Kansas."
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