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00 1 ADVICE A8 CLASSIFIEDS B6 OPINION A5 OBITUARIES A9 PUZZLES A12 SPORTS B1 6 18134 41193 9 $2 Volume 161, Issue 63 A Lee Enterprises Newspaper Copyright 2019 Follow us online: facebook.com/wcfcourier instagram.com/wcfcourier PARTLY CLOUDY 49 30 FORECAST, A12 TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2019 wcfcourier.com $2 Your Daily Six: A quick-hit summary of top every weekday morning. Today in History: Where the past meets the present. AT WCFCOURIER.COM/NOW/TODAY DISCOVER DIGITAL Kettlebells Incorporate them into workout, LIVING, PAGE A7 Waterloo Spring Break Annual event draws crowds CEDAR A3 GRANT SCHULTE Associated Press A Nebraska city walled by massive ooding is getting a big lift from private pilots who are ering free ights to shuttle stranded residents to and from their hometown. Flooding from the Platte River and other waterways is so bad that just one highway lane into Fremont remains uncovered, authorities said Monday. Emer- gency responders have restricted access for safety reasons, leaving residents in the city of 26,000 stuck on an island in the mid- dle of Nebraska farm country, about 40 miles northwest of Omaha.

The ooding in Fremont comes as communities in several Midwestern states grapple with swollen rivers and breached or overtopped levees following heavy rain and snowmelt. After a weekend with no road access to the outside world, of- cials in Fremont said they still know when any will re- open. The ights were a godsend for Sue Ankersen, 56, who lives in the city but able to re- turn home after baby-sitting her granddaughter in Omaha on Fri- day. Ankersen said she had never own in a small plane before, but heard about the ights from her daughter and worked up the courage to go because she was homesick and wanted to volun- teer to help others. call them angels of the she said.

just so thankful for these guys doing The makeshift shuttle ights have led to a surge in air tra at the Fremont Municipal Air- port and its two runways. Pilots have own in from at least ve nearby airports in Nebraska as well as others in western Iowa and Kansas, said Jim Kjeldgaard, Pilots help stranded residents NATI HARNIK, ASSOCIATED PRESS Pilot Herb Johansen of Bennington, unloads supplies he volunteered to into the Fremont, airport on Monday. Walled by massive ooding, Fremont is getting a big lift from private pilots who are ering free ights to shuttle stranded residents to and from their hometown. Flooding cuts Nebraska town; one highway passable AMIE RIVERS amie.rivers@wcfcourier.com CEDAR FALLS As ice began to break apart and shove into houses along Cot- tage Row in Cedar Falls, resident Garret Grant sent a drone up Saturday to cap- ture the extent of it. What the camera came back with was shocking.

With the Cedar River at major ood stage and water already impacting Cot- tage Row homes, large ice sheets and debris shoved into yards, porches, out- buildings and up against houses Satur- day. Grant said the ice jams had so far spared his home. Cottage Row resident Jay Robertson so lucky. Robertson said Monday. a matter of TIM JAMISON tim.jamison@wcfcourier.com JANESVILLE Floodwaters have washed away a historic bridge in rural Bremer County.

The Green Mill Ford Bridge over the Cedar River about three miles northeast of Janes- ville went missing over the weekend. my understanding it got taken out by an ice said County Engineer Todd Fonkert. got several people out look- ing for it right The 244-foot-long bridge had been closed to tra since 1986, and the road to the north was later vacated. But the steel structure with a wooden deck was listed on the Na- tional Register of Historic Places in 1998. The bowstring arch-truss bridge was rst built in 1872 over the Cedar River in Waverly after Bremer County voters approved a prop- erty tax initiative to fund it, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation.

The three bowstring trusses were disman- tled in 1902 after a new girder bridge was built in Waverly. Two of the trusses were moved to the current site and became known as the Green Mill Ford Bridge. Local bridge swept away PHOTO COURTESY OF GARRET GRANT A photo captured by a drone piloted by Cedar Falls resident Garret Grant shows Cottage Row homes ooded and a ected by ice jams on the Cedar River on Saturday. North Cedar ice jams, CF continue Green Mill Ford Bridge near Janesville is gone Large sheets of ice are being shoved into homes, outbuildings Please see PILOTS, Page A9 Please see FLOODING, Page A9 Look for NEW birthday dates in Courier! Visit www.WCFCourier.com/birthday to enter for your chance to win $500! birthday GAME celebrating 160 years in the Cedar Va lley Open for Breakfast Spring Break Week March 19-23.