After six months of winter will flooding follow this very snowy winter?

 

April 4, 2018

Haley Velk, Blaine County's Emergency Manager, poses beside a graphic from a National Weather Service source. During the spring Blaine County officials use a variety of resources to anticipate and respond to potential flooding. Many of those resources are available to the public and accessible through the internet.

Will flooding follow this winter with record snowfall? Blaine County officials are trying to prepare for possible flooding. I was invited to the courthouse to visit with Commissioners Plumage and DePriest as well as Emergency Manager Haley Velk and Laurie Huestis in administrative support. The meeting was in conjunction with the National Weather Service's (NWS) Weekly Winter Briefing, Much of the NWS briefing centered on flood potential, monitoring to anticipate flooding and the types of actions individuals can take to protect their own lives and property should a flood occur.

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