Is there a river that is a mile wide?

Bill Lemmers had never seen the Platte River like this. The river that runs the whole state of Nebraska is known for being “a mile wide and an inch deep,” but Friday it looked like an angry ocean with waves. “They were 8 foot tall, easily,” Lemmers said. “You could surf a wave that high.”



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