Flood an old memory to brothers

Now, at age 75, he bikes 30 miles a day. I caught him at mile 15 of his journey as he, his brother and two friends contemplated the “Park Closed” sign at flooded N.P. Dodge Park that blocked their way north along the Omaha Riverfront Trail.
“Worst flooding since 1952,” said Waayne, who lives in the lowlands of Council Bluffs near the Iowa end of the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge. “Isn't that incredible?”
Wayne was an outdoorsman in the early 1950s, too — so much so that he would head out from his Bluffs home and go swim in the Missouri River.
That was in the years before Gavins Point Dam up north was finished, before the flow of the Missouri River was held and released throughout the year to reduce the impact of spring mountain runoff and spring storms and promote barge traffic.
“It looked more like the Platte (River) back then,” Wayne said.yne, who lives in the lowlands of Council Bluffs near the Iowa end of the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge. “Isn't that incredible?”Wayne was an outdoorsman in the early 1950s, too — so much so that he would head out from his Bluffs home and go swim in the Missouri River.That was in the years before Gavins Point Dam up north was finished, before the flow of the Missouri River was held and released throughout the year to reduce the impact of spring mountain runoff and spring storms and promote barge traffic.