Random photos No.1 and No.2

The flood of 2019 has been long and arduous to document. I think it is worth mentioning that it is much more worse to live through. In May I went to Hansons Lake near Bellevue, Nebraska. It is a lakeside community right next to the Platte River that flooded badly in March. We returned in May because the recent rains have caused the Platte to rise again. Residents and volunteers were trying to shore up existing levees and build new ones.


 This is one of the few times while covering the flood that I felt concerned for my safety. I could see the river inches from the top of the levee and oozing through lower parts I was standing on.
I made sure to have my escape route in my head in case the levee gave way to the river.
At the lake, I kept hearing splashing and I noticed that the fish kept jumping out of the water.  It seemed to in different places and random times, but I felt compelled to try and capture one with my camera.


 We were fortunate that it did not give way that day and while walking out through all the mud, something caught my eye. At first, I thought it was an animal that had drowned in the flood, but as I got closer, I realized it was a little more bizarre. It was a game mount stuck in the mud, among flood debris.

I have no idea how it got there, but there is a possibility that floodwaters carried it out of someone's house and into the mud. The two images weren't really relevant to the story we were covering, that day, but I made the photos anyways.