August 2006:
The Weather Channel Tours Nebraska
for a Program about our Drought

Photo Gallery Three

The photos are presented in the order of the filming across the state of Nebraska,
all photo ImagesĀ© Ken Dewey, High Plains Regional Climate Center


Bryson Airboat Tours took us down the Loup River to where it joins the now dry Platte River.


The HBO film crew was in a second Bryson air boat
 


Dr. Heidi Cullen interviews Christy Carlson, climate resource specialist at the High Plains Climate Center.
We are located at the junction of the Loup and Platte Rivers.  The Platte River is totally dry but some
water is flowing down the Loup river.


Both HBO and The Weather Channel were filming at this location.


Christy is standing on the dry Platte River bed with the Loup river in the distance.


Christy Carlson shows some of the drought data tables created at the High Plains Regional Climate Center to Dr. Heidi Cullen.
 


Rodney Verhoeff, Coordinator of the Lower Platte River Corridor Alliance, is interviewed by Dr. Heidi Cullen.


Rodney Verhoeff, Coordinator of the Lower Platte River Corridor Alliance, is interviewed by Dr. Heidi Cullen.

Lower Platte River Corridor Alliance Tour last year (2005)

Lower Platte River Corridor Alliance Tour last month (July 2005)
 
 


Christy Carlson, Dr. Heidi Cullen and Rodney Verhoeff


Dr. Heidi Cullen, Christy Carlson and Dr Ken Dewey, (Nebraska Weather and Climate)


Thanks again Bryson Air Boat Tours for helping us with this filming
 


This is a drought devastated dryland corn field north of York, Nebraska


Dr.  Heidi Cullen prepared several reports from this drought destroyed corn field.


 

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