It is snowing in Colorado. That is somewhat weird given that today is the first day of summer.
But the truly bad part is that it is a reminder that the Rocky Mountain snow pack is still very thick and will continue to melt and pour into the Missouri and Colorado Rivers.
In Nebraska, there are two nuclear power plants, Ft. Calhoun and Cooper, that are in significant danger of being overtaken by the flood waters. Ft. Calhoun was taken off-line for maintenance in April, but it still has spent fuel rods in a cooling pool located on site. It is currently below the flood line, but is being protected by a rubber wall and a wall of sandbags. This has the effect of making it look like an island fortress.
Cooper is still active but the waters are still rising around it as well. If either or both of these plants are inundated, it could dump a lot of nuclear waste material into the Missouri River, which will then flow into the Mississippi and then into the Gulf.
This is some bad juju that bears watching.
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