OMAHA - Ice jam flooding over the weekend inundated about 30 cabins along the Platte River west of Fremont and required a harrowing water rescue that left four people injured.

The sudden surge of the Platte River out of its banks west of Fremont on Saturday generated a rush of anxiety as people worried about a recurrence, even on a modest scale, of last year’s catastrophic flooding. Last year, in March, about $2.7 billion in damage occurred across Nebraska when runoff from snowmelt and rain poured into area rivers, triggering overland and ice jam flooding. At least 7,000 homes were damaged and several people died.

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