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Historic flooding in Nebraska and Iowa has claimed at least one life, flooded an unknown number of towns and cut off communities — and the worst could still be ahead.

Major flooding remains possible on the Missouri, Elkhorn and Loup Rivers, said David Pearson, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service.

These rising river levels mean the unthinkable is possible: that 2019 could be the year that two terrible flood years — the devastating flooding on the Elkhorn River in 2010 and the record-shattering flood of 2011 on the Missouri River — wrap into one.

“The 2011 flooding was probably one of the bigger disaster events in our history. I think we can safely say ... this event rivals it,” said Bryan Tuma, assistant director of the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency.