Nebraska Drought Exposes Century-Old Steamboat Remains Which Carried Cargo of Flour and Whiskey Worth $12,000

Extreme drought in Nebraska unveiled a century-old steamboat in Missouri River after the water levels' dropped down due to high humidity.

Named as the North Alabama, that sank in the Missouri River back in the 1870s near an island called Goat, which spans the boundary of South Dakota and Nebraska.

The Missouri River National Park said that the steamboat, at that time, was carrying 12,000 dollars worth of cargo composed of flour and whiskey coming from the City of Siox, Iowa going to Montana.

In a Facebook post from the Missouri National Recreational River, they said that it was until 1904 that the steamboat North Alabama was exposed again when the sand shifted and the water was low, where people are able to glance the wreckage out of the recreational river.

Good thing may it sounds but the visibility of the sunken steamboat was because of the water level reduction in Missouri River as a product of the extreme drought facing the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

The Drought's Aftermath

According to the Cedar County in Nebraska their current drought experience is "severe" in the northernmost region, where the wrecked steamboat was found, and the "extreme drought is in the southern third as the US Drought Monitor, stated.

The United States large parts are also currently experiencing the same drought to some degree. As per the drought monitoring body, about 64.43 percent of the continental US was categorized between "Exceptional" and "Abnormally Dry" kinds of droughts, with 13.05 percent of the neighboring US regions either being "extreme or exceptional" drought.

The intense humidity and dryness in the weather resulted in some strange things being located in the dried bodies of water, like previously a hidden waterline beneath.

Lake Mead, which recently entered the 'catastrophic collapse' stage of drought because of the record lowest water level since it was constructed, found five different sets of human bodies.

The witnesses believe that the remains were drowning victims, which may be contrary to the first body recovered on the lake shore, that was riddled with bullets and found inside a barrel, leading the authorities to believe that the may be a sort of a victim of an organized crime.

Global Drought Remains

A Texas river that recently dried up showed traces of different remains of unique creatures such as dinosaurs. Paluxy, the drought-dried river, showed an unseen dinosaur's footprint in a riverbed.

Globally speaking, there were countless topics of weird yet wonderful things being seen in the drought's aftermath.

An ancient island in China, that is normally submerged in a lake, became visible to the human eye because of extreme dry conditions in Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake.

While in Spain, the dried-up Valdecanas reservoir exposed a prehistoric stone circle that dwells underwater and was called the "Spanish Stonehenge," and also in Spain, an 11th-century church unveiled after the shrinking water levels which, described by the tourist as amazing, since the church's bell tower is the only visible when it's underwater.

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