Early travelers on the Missouri River reported that shores and bars often lined with the decaying bodies of buffalo that had died during spring floods.
All of the levees along the Missouri River have broken, and the towns of Portage Des Sioux and West Alton, which sit at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, have been completely isolated by water.
And over the central part of the U.S. as a cold front from the north bulldozes into warmer, humid air, officials say severe weather was possible early this week in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana and Missouri.
It was down to Missouri's 35-yard line but that kick made her the third woman ever to play in this level of NCAA Division I football and she's the first to play in the Power 5 conference.