Dennis Daugaard had absolutely nothing to do with the flood of corruption that took place in the Governor's Office of Economic Development and Mike Rounds's EB-5 program. Absolutely nothing whatsoever. But when it comes to real floods on the Missouri,…
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I remain fascinated by Governor Dennis Daugaard's decision to close I-29 and turn Exit 4 into a levee to divert flood water from the Big Sioux River into McCook Lake. While the action proved unnecessary—the Big Sioux crested earlier and…
However big the levee was that the state built under the Exit 4 overpass on Interstate 29, it has quickly disappeared. Here's a photo from about half an hour ago, sent to me by another correspondent on the ground in…
Some mighty emergency civil engineering will not be tested. Governor Dennis Daugaard announces that the Big Sioux River crested this morning at North Sioux City, earlier and lower than expected. KETV meteorologist Kyle Gravlin posts this chart of the river's…
I sit safe and dry behind a computer well removed from the second hundred-year-flood to hit the Big Sioux–Missouri confluence in three years. From my safe perch, the most telling sign that this flood is serious is a single drastic…
From the Department of Awkward Twitter Juxtaposition, West River rancher Dallas Basel reacts to Governor Dennis Daugaard's emergency declaration in southeast South Dakota: Daugaard chief of staff Dusty Johnson tweets Lt. Gov. Matt Michels's comment from the Governor's disaster response…
It may seem impolite to talk about wetlands research while southeastern South Dakota is in a flood emergency. But given that wetlands are nature's way of controlling floods and require less energy than sump pumps and bulldozers, maybe now is…
A few weeks back, I had to defuse some snark from the Republican spin machine, which tried to portray Democratic gubernatorial candidate Joe Lowe's statements about his role in the Missouri River flood response in 2011 as something other than…