That is just nuts how much it changed the landscape

Somewhere I remember reading in a book about the hazards of building your house on sand. 🤔

McCook Lake is a natural oxbow lake found in Union County, South Dakota, United States, about one mile north of North Sioux City. It was formed from a "cutoff" of the Missouri River. The lake is named for General John Cook, who commanded a company of soldiers stationed there in 1862-63 following the Dakota War of 1862. When or why the "Mc" was added is unknown. Most residents are located on the north side of the lake, while land around the south side is used for farming. The Izaak Walton League, an environmental organization active in lake issues, has a clubhouse located on the lake and owns most of the southern shore. The lake's level is supported by pumping water from the Missouri River through a 24-inch pipe at the southwest end, transported over 1½ miles, which costs about $1,000 a week. Locks were installed by the WPA at each end of the lake in the 1930s to allow for control of the lake's level during the Missouri's high-flow periods, but because they no longer occur, these are no longer in use. The lake level has been maintained via the pump and a well since the 1970s. In the 1950s, Missouri River flooding deposited large amounts of silt in the lake. A restoration project began in 1991, when the lake's average depth was 2-4 feet, to remove accumulated sediment (mostly clay and fine sand) of about 1,700,000 cubic yards (1,300,000 m3) from the lake's bottom. Noting increased temperatures in the shallow lake and dense aquatic vegetation, the EPA's total maximum daily load analysis said: "The lake mimicked a prairie slough more than a lake. "The dredging project's goal was to increase the average lake depth by 4.5 feet, with the aim of encouraging fish propagation in the lake and boosting its recreational use. As the project continued, more sediment was removed than originally anticipated. From 1991-1998, about 2,248,000 cubic yards (1,719,000 m3) was removed, or 132 percent of the original estimate. Dredging was to continue through the year 2000. In 1999, local reports said the average lake depth had increased to 11 feet with the maximum depth at 15 feet. A 2011 fishing survey put measurements of its average depth at 6 feet with a maximum depth of 14 feet. The 2011 Missouri River Flood affected McCook Lake, with record-level flooding on the river increasing the lake's depth more than five feet over its normal level. Lake managers reversed the pipeline flow to pump water back into the Missouri in order to prevent flooding of nearby homes and damage to city sewers. A no-wake zone was also implemented to prevent shoreline erosion. McCook Lake's pumps were damaged in the flood, but pumping was back in service by 2012. All three pumps were functioning again by April 2014.

How absolutely heartbreaking.

Basically every piece of infrastructure in North america, built pre 2010's, needs to be thoroughly examined, this is getting a bit ridiculous at this point between dams and bridges failing.

I lived in Sioux city back in the late 40s til 56. I lived on leech st by the river. Most springs we would be evacuated in military duck vehicles and stayed in a mission. That river was a bad ass.

Maybe the Native People had a good idea of not owning land and living in movable shelters. This drone footage is fantastic, and the devastation is shocking! I hope those people affected have places they can be safe in, wow! Can you imagine what that sounded like while it was happening?

Wow hope everyone is okay GOD Bless You and America 🇺🇸

Its crazy how insanely destructive water can be. Those poor people. Not only have they lost everything, they have to come back and clean all that up before they can rebuild.

Prayers 🙏🙏🙏

The effects of cloudseeding.

I know in California insurance companies don't give insurance in a red flag zones where they have had many fire problems as the results of pacific gas and electricity unfortunately

Some great deal on water front property...

Last year it was the south west not its north, weather is not an absolute and never will be but many of our flood problems are the result of absolute thinking.

Waterfront dwellers had enough yet?

This is reason why in manitoba and western canada get tough building code.😮

What comfort will Gnome offer?

what a shame

Tragedy on so many levels. Devastating to look at

People paid a premium $$$ for that riverfront property. Hope it was worth it. Now they know it is in the floodplain. No federal flood insurance should be issued. If you want to live that close to the river, insure your own house.

Those were very nice looking homes (or vacation cabins?). Sad

How do you go about rebuilding all these loses?!!!!!!

Good God.... I knew it was bad, but this is.... Wow. Let's make sure to send money to Israel and Ukraine though

Let me guess, insurance doesn’t cover “natural disasters”

A lot of very expensive Real Estate will have to be demolished and removed . Hopefully these folks have Flood Insurance ?

No drones were injured in the taking of this footage. Kudos to the pilot.

Ghost town. I didn't see any car or person. There's just no one there. Creepy.

This is so crazy how all this is happing in this time line when houses are so unaffordable and all the infrastructure’s are failing around us trillions of dollars going elsewhere we’re it’s as if the prowers that be want this to happen. Stay vigilant it’s looking like a large land grab is happening all around America. we have very lazy people running our county. 🤷‍♂️we the people need to start making our own decisions again before we loose everything.

maybe don't build in a floodplain, geniuses

⛈️😥

🙏🎯🌍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 The world 🌍 has changed **Nam myoho rengekyo** 🙏 Pray 🌍 peace 🕊️ be safe ______//

Its not on a floodplain. The water was diverted to the lake to save a community that was on a flood plain... so many uninformed ppl here. The state and local government were horrible in the lead up to this with no warning or communication at all.

Portions of that community look to be a total loss. I think the sensible thing would be to move the effected portion of the community to higher ground and put a permanent moratorium on building so close to the water. My reasoning is that with the present global warming trend, we are going to see floods like this more often. Imagine having hundred year storms every year.

What in the

The homes cars and roads Are like paper mâche how Can anyone believe there Is no G-D and the he and He only is the ultimate Power..👁

Now these people will be victimized again…by their insurance companies.

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees, sit in Moses’ seat. So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries wide, and the tassels on their garments long; they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by others. But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted. You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything, in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents, to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me; but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me, and keep my commandments. If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. "Matthew 5-7 NIV Bible Gateway", we can use google search. These are the teachings, the righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ, our God. Repent and start doing what is right. The Kingdom of Heaven has come near. If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. When you pray do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners, to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need, before you ask him. This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.' For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. A time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit, and in truth. In the New Heaven and the New Earth, only righteousness dwells. May the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ our God be with you all.

Keep building by the river and coastlines folks! Then keep voting for those Republicans who do not want to believe the science of Climate change and ignore the Engineers who say to stop building near water or change the way we build. So keep at it folks, keep doing it the same way and you will get the same year after year.

That's what you get for hogging the lake to yourselves 😅😅

And bam, just like that, they go from, "government should get out of our lives...". To, "I sure like this gubmunt 🧀 cheese 🍕

Slava ukraini Too soon?

Hahhahahahahahha!

Where's the National Guard and Biden horrible !

BIDEN SAID TO BLINKIN, TONY, DONT RESPOND TO THIS, WE DONT CARE ABOUT AMERICAN HOMES, JUST WORRY ABOUT UKRANIAN HOMES. i AGREED TO LOOK OUT FOR THEM AND HUNTER TOOK PAYMENT, SO PLEASE FOCUS ON WHATS IMPORTANT TO OUR PARTY.

It's called a flood plain for a reason.

Republican moment