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Dakotas blizzard runoff could impact Missouri

Missouri could see effects of the blizzard that hit North and South Dakota late last week. If weather in the Dakotas warms it will melt the snow and send it down the Missouri River, according to Chris Chinn, director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture. Missouri farmers continue to deal with high water as they recover from flooding that’s already happened this year, said Chinn.

“We’re all praying that we have a light winter so there isn’t going to be a lot of additional snow,” Chinn told Brownfield Ag News, “so that our farmers here in Missouri have that needed break to get their levees built, to get back in their homes, to do that clean-up process.”

If more floods are coming, Chinn says areas that have already seen the greatest flood impact will need the most attention.

“Just knowing where those pinch points are, making sure that we deploy the resources that we have at our fingertips to help them so that we are to mitigate any more damage than what they’ve already received,” said Chinn.

The blizzard left as much as two feet of snow in parts of North Dakota; as much as foot dropped on parts of South Dakota.