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FLood waters surrounding trees.
Flood Waters . . . from the Nishnabotna River north of Hamburg rolled over thousands of acres of cropland before the waters began to recede Saturday. In the center along the grove of trees is the normal path of the Nishnabotna but the waters…

Remnants Of A Bridge...dangle in the swollen waters of Walnut Creek in Waveland Township. It was one of a half dozen bridges washed out or damaged by ice and running water Tuesday.

A special section of the Daily Nonpareil newspaper published on Friday, September 10, 1999 featuring images of flooding in Council Bluffs taken on August 6th and 7th of that year.

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Seven aerial photographs of the Missouri flood of 1952

Missouri River flood damage

Soldiers gather at a flood relief command center

Evacuation traffic in downtown Council Bluffs

Peeling potatoes for the troops

Sandbags along the levee in Council Bluffs

Aerial view of a secondary levee, one-half mile below the primary North levee in Council Bluffs. It is 1.75 miles long, built over 28 sets of railroad tracks and was constructed in just 2.5 days.
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