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Friday storms deposit nearly five timely inches across Hamilton County
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A waterway in a field west of Highway 14 near Marquette flows with muddy water on Friday morning as more than four inches of overnight rain runs off. -
The ditch on the west side of Highway 14 near the electrical substation north of Aurora stands full of water Friday morning, a result of overnight storms.
Prayers for an end to two years of drought in Hamilton County and across the eastern third of Nebraska were answered in part late last week as almost five inches of rain fell across the county. Storms that passed through the area on Thursday night and Friday dumped heavy rain and caused some minor flooding. Beginning after 9 p.m. on Thursday, the storms that dropped most of the rain that…
