06-25-2024 McCook Lake, South Dakota - Catastrophic Flooding
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Published 2024-06-25
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McCOOK LAKE - NORTH SIOUX CITY, South Dakota - More catastrophic flooding damage to infrastructure, roads, and homes off of the Big Sioux River and McCook Lake from the flooding event that has been ongoing across the region this June of 2024.
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All Comments (21)
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Wow, that is the worst flood erosion damage I have ever seen and I have been involved in emergency services disaster response for over a decade.
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You can't just "rebuild" that. Insane.
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I’m an Oklahoman who grew up on the Arkansas River, but now lives up river, on the other side of the damn, and higher in elevation. My mama had to evacuate the last major flood that made national news to our house. The levy was leaking near her neighborhood. Lifelong friend’s houses were completely submerged. Still, it never looked anything like this. The amount of water with the rate of flow had to have been overwhelming and staggering. This is awful, and will take a long time to recover from. I’m so sorry.
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The erosion is so bad, because the water was intentionally diverted into McCook lake. They did not want the floodwaters to go into the Dakota Dunes area which consists of million dollar homes and businesses. McCook lake residents were the fall guys. Dakota dunes is in a known floodplain. McCook Lake residents were told to remove their flood insurance due to the fact that they would never be flooded and were not in a floodplain. This was just last year. This is devious and disgusting.
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THATS SOUTH DAKOTA!? Oh my! This damage is phenomenal, as someone who lives in Louisiana and has saw extreme flooding here, this damage beats it by 85%. Its like a whole tsunami came through there. We all need to pray for these people. Because this is insane.
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Looking at Google Earth, it looks like this neighborhood was build along an isolated oxbow of the river (‘the lake’). Which itself shows the river historically meanders back and forth over the floodplain (breaking out of its current banks, forming new ones). These folks apparently were caught in a massive meander from the flood flow.
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All of that erosion is CRAZY it surely is catastrophic damage flood wise.
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The complete washout of roads and streets and infrastructure is just so beyond . . . anything. I mean, even if a house or two escaped, the roads are gone. Just mind-blowing. And sad.
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oh my goodness, where do you start with such devastation? I do hope no one was badly hurt or worse.
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Staggering! The erosion by water is Catastrophic! Praying for these folks it looks like they had little or no warning in time to even get vehicles out. I pray there is no loss of life. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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The power of water never ceases to amaze me.
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Devastating! I will be praying for all the people affected by this horrific disaster!🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Stay strong Dakota 🇺🇸
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Keep strong don't give up the Lord is with you.
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Don’t build your house right next to the river 🤪
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That's going to take a long time to fix.
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Don't mean to sound insensitive but this is what rivers do in flood plains, it is how all that fertile bottom land is created that people love to live on and farm. When people constrict the flow of the rivers, sooner or later the water finds a way. Nature always has the last word.
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Wow! What an impressive video! Thank you, always! God protect you.
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How horrible. I've never seen such convoluted flood paths and those deep channels cut between the houses. I can't imagine going through that flood.
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Maybe crusty kristi can fix it
